Humility Quotes

The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.

For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.

Use your light, but dim your brightness.

I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.

If success attend me, grant me humility; If failure, resignation to Thy will.

The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

I might paraphrase Churchill and say: never have I received so much for so little.

The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.

The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.

When grace changes the heart, submission out of fear changes to submission out of love, and true humility is born.

Humility is the only lens though which great things can be seen--and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible.

God descends to the humble as waters flow down from the hills into the valleys.

Humility bids us to take ourselves as we are; we do not have to be cosmically significant to be genuinely significant.

Obedience to the word in humility of mind never confuses.

When someone compliments you, listen, but don't believe it. Praise or blame are immaterial. You know what you are.

The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.

If you wish to cultivate humility, then you should associate with those who are humble.

Humility is the part of wisdom, and is most becoming in men. But let no one discourage self-reliance; it is, of all the rest, the greatest quality of true manliness.

It is not the self -critical who reveals his humility ( for does not everyone have some how to put up with himself? ). Rather, it is the man who continues to love the person who has criticized him.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

True humility scarcely ever utters words of humility.

Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.

Humility is losing yourself in the doing of serving.

What is childlike humility? It’s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda.

When things are going well, be mindful of adversityWhen prosperous, be mindful of povertyWhen loved, be mindful of thoughtfulnessWhen respected, be mindful of humility

Humility makes us ready to be blessed by the God of all grace.

What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.

You're not as smart as you think you are, but you've got more potential than you could possibly imagine. The secret from the one to other is humility.

Jesus washing the disciples feet is the most supreme act of humility in all of God’s word.

Conceit is a sure sign of insecurity; humility denotes awareness.

The balance between confidence and humility is best learned through extensive experience and mistakes.

Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis.

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.

The surest mark of true conversion is humility.

Humility makes our lives acceptable to God, meekness makes us acceptable to men.

Be very humble when you plan so that Krishna is happy with you.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Idealism may get us into the fray, but it is the loss of all we cherish that begins to form in us a heart capable of leading others reluctantly and humbly.

Only those who feel little in the eyes of God, can hope to be mighty in the eyes of men.

For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.

It is important that you strive for humility, but not humiliation, for a cool, level-headed confidence, not a stiff, delusional arrogance.

If I was not a remarkably modest man, I should probably brag a little, and say that I had done what no American ever before accomplished by visiting the queen at her palace twice within eight days.

Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.

I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.

For most leaders, humility comes only by wounds suffered from foolish falls.

God made us and God is able to empower us to do whatever he calls us to do. Denying that we can accomplish God's work is not humility; it is the worst kind of pride.