Humility Quotes

The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it.

If you want to become humble, the first thing you have to admit is that you are proud.

Teach me. Lord, my true condition; Bring me childlike to Thy knee; Stripped of every low ambition, Willing to be led by Thee.

The beginner's humility and openness lead to exploration. Exploration leads to accomplishment. All of it begins at the beginning, with the first small and scary step.

I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.

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.

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

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

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

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

Humility is the light of the understanding.

Use humility to make the enemy haughty. Tire them by flight. Cause division among them. When they are unprepared, attack and make your move when they do not expect it.

It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason.

As we give the gifts of compassion and humility, our lives become demonstrations of the truth of God's Word.

We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves.

A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility.

The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.

Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and humility.

They who know most of God on earth or heaven know that they know little after all; but they know that they may know more and more of Him throughout eternal ages.

The humility of wonder opens everything.

Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possesses it.

Follow diligently the Way in your own heart, but make no display of it to the world.

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know

Goodness strives not, and therefore it is not rebuked.

Good things come in small packages.

Humility has the toughest hide.

A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.

Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.

A proud monk needs no demon. He has turned into one, an enemy to himself.

After hunger, a human's most important need is to know what is virtuous.

ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfil their functions and make no claim.

One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realising this a monk should take no pleasure in the respect of others, but should devote himself to solitude.

Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance of humility.

As water and fire oppose one another when combined, so are self-justification and humility opposed to one another.

Humility has tremendous power. Think of Gandhi. That was humility in action. He changed the shape of an entire nation.

Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.

It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success.

Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.

Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are.

If you're capable of despising your own behavior, you might just love yourself.