Humility Quotes

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

Humility is a virtue; timidity is an illness.

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

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

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility.

True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.

Too many leaders act as if the sheep.. their people.. are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.

Take what you can use and let the rest go by.

Be sure that your soul is never so intensely alive as when in the deepest abnegation it waits hushed before God .

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

You can't have pride without humility. Aggression without tolerance. Strength without compassion. Power without restraint.

True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

He does not show humility who accuses himself (for who will not accept rebukes from himself?), but he who, being rebuked by another, does not decrease his love toward him.

Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.

Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.

Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices.

The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.

It is a maxim that will endure: To truly know the living God, this begets humility.

Humility is my best friend, I've always valued it above all other spiritual qualities.

Holy Purity is granted by God when it is asked for with humility.

When merit has been achieved, do not take it to yourself; for if you do not take it to yourself, it shall never be taken from you.

Now, there are two ways to approach a subject that frightens you and makes you feel stupid: you can embrace it with humility and an open mind, or you can ridicule it mercilessly.

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

A person’s words reflect the image of his character and the amount of truth and lies in it is always visible to the human heart than ordinary eyes.

Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.

Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.

You will only learn in a fight how much you've got to learn.

You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.

While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.

A good trader has to have three things: a chronic inability to accept things at face value, to feel continuously unsettled, and to have humility.

Successful investors must temper the arrogance of taking a stand with a large dose of humility, accepting that despite their efforts and care, they may in fact be wrong.

A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility.

In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.

Good results is not an entitlement. It has to be earned and earned each individual working day via the lens of humility.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

The self says, I am; The heart says, I am less; The spirit says, you are Nothing.

It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in order to appear great ... such ... are often the expedients of the neurotic.

Humility is the distinguishing virtue of the believer in freedom; arrogance, of the paternalist.

Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul.

In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your peace of heart.

Humility is not a trait I often associate with America.