Humility Quotes

Reputation should be neither sought nor avoided.

It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is to prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who is yet to come.

You know what keeps me humble? Mirrors!

Cut your coat according to your cloth.

By humility, out of an enemy He has made a friend, which is more than to have created a new earth.

Just using a checklist requires [doctors] to embrace different values from ones we've had, like humility, discipline, teamwork.

People with humility don't think less of themselves, they just think of themselves less.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.

True humility is contentment.

...when you trust the Lord God to give you the next step, when you wait in humility upon Him, *He* will open the doors or close them, and you'll get to rest and relax until He says, 'Go.

The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

The battle against pride in the heart is lifelong, so humility should become an ever more deeply seated attitude of living

Let us daily strive to copy our Savior's humility.

Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility.

Pride builds walls between people, humility builds bridges.

I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.

Higher position means greater service and an apportunity to purely represent Srila Prabhupada. Hence our management must be based on humility and tolerance.

Humility accepts that God places us in the right place at every single moment, not a moment to soon and not a moment too late.

I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart

Only humility will lead us to unity, and unity will lead to peace.

From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.

Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

Modest humility is beauty's crown.

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

Real humility is something that no one else will see. No one will know about your humility, if it's real.

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.

Humility is not just declaring that you are not God. It is deciding daily to not be God.

It is good to be taught humility when we are young. If we do not exeperience pain as children, we will cause pain as adults.

The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.

When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were 'somebody'.

Humility consists in not esteeming ourselves above other men, and in not seeking to be esteemed above them.

I'm coming from a place of total strength and humility now.

Travelers learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government. They learn, if they are lucky, humility.

He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.

Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.

There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.