Humility Quotes

The fullest and best ears of corn hang lowest toward the ground.

Humility is not an 'added extra,' one of the lesser Christian virtues. If you don't have humility, you may be lost.

Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.

Don’t nurture a sense of guilt; rather, nurture a sense of responsibility married with a sense of humility.

Only those who see themselves as utterly destitute can fully appreciate the grace of God.

Humility is the conscious awareness and acceptance of eternity as your body.

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

I never left my roots. You can identify me as someone that didn't become high and mighty. Humility is a defining [trait] all of us can forever learn, and I try to be as humble as anyone can be.

You must purge yourself of all thoughts of self-importance, and all inclination to judge either yourself or others. You must go to power with humility and deep respect.

The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.

The only way we really create change is to enter any situation with the humility to listen and to recognize the world as it is, and then the audacity to dream what it could be.

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

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

God opposes the proud. The way you get up front is do really good work in the back. Humility is a by product of spending time with Jesus - it is not a reflection of yourself

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.

Humility, however deep it be, neither disquiets nor troubles nor disturbs the soul; it is accompanied by peace, joy and tranquillity.

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.

Music can act upon our senses to produce or induce feelings of reverence, humility, fervor, assurance, or other feelings attuned to the spirit of worship.

Some people are proud of their humility.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

Astronomy, as nothing else can do, teaches men humility.

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

The more you forget yourself, the more Jesus will think of you.

Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.

The devil sees nothing more abominable than a truly humble christian, for [that Christian] is just the opposite of [the devil's] own image

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.

Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Cultivate humility it is the way of connectedness. Beware of false humility it leads to self-righteousness.

In Christ, man who made himself God encounters God who made himself man. Unrivaled self-importance and pride encounters unrivaled self-emptying and humility.

Humility is a virtue; timidity is an illness.

Nothing is difficult for the humble.

One may be humble out of pride.

I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself.

We're blind, deaf and dumb. It is only that Self, which is our life force that makes who and what we are. The realization of that is self-realization.

I learned a lot about humility and patience, keeping my mouth shut.

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.

May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.

Humility reminds you that in order to receive value, you must create value in equal measure.

Humility feels that there is someone, somewhere who can do anything I can do better - except one thing: no one can be better at being me.

Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts.