Humility Quotes

The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.

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

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

Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.

And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.

The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.

O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.

Modesty is the citadel of beauty.

In some sense we are all hypocrites in transition.

Humility does not mean weakness. It does not mean timidity. It does not mean fear. A man can be humble and fearless. A man can be humble and courageous.

It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.

The more we walk the path first while becoming last and least in our organizations, the more we become like the Alpha and Omega whom we long to serve.

Humility is the worst form of conceit.

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.

The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always great when they are done for God.

If it is hard to accept a rebuke, even a private one, it is harder still to administer one in loving humility.

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

You cannot attain to charity except through humility.

The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.

If you seek eternity and light and luminosity, seek humility first ... first things first.

Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought.

The Lord chose the apostles, that they should be with Him, and that he might send them forth to preach, and to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils.

Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.

When you realize that the ego is making you miserable you don't identify with it. You identify with your soul's humility and the ego dissolves.

Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

When there's nothing but humility, there's nothing but spiritual oneness.

Humility does not live in the prison of illusion that says that this world is a dark and terrible place. Those perceptions are phantoms; everything is eternity, God, divine.

Heart and humor and humility, he said will lighten up your heavy load.

Truth must the guide of those who hold the power; but humility is their sign, the promise that their privileges are in safe hands.

Humility is the foundation by which love manifests.

Actual Gratitude is the Symptom of Humility.

True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.

Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.

What is humility but truthfulness? There is no real difference.

One who loves God retains this humility at all times, not with weariness and struggle, but with pleasure and gladness.

The thief who received the kingdom of heaven, though not as the reward of virtue, is a true witness to the fact that salvation is ours through the grace and mercy of God.

Never answer a critic, unless he's right.

Humility saves man: pride makes him lose his way.

If we learn not humility, we learn nothing.

Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.

My power will be in humility.

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.

Do not practise excessive humility.

I'd rather be around broken people who have a degree of humility, and just get on with their work.

Charity isn't a good substitute for justice.

To be part of the creation, I must act humbly. I'll take that over a goddess any day!

The language of love is the language of humility or humbleness.

Ever doubt that God answers your prayers? Pray (sincerely) for humility... and watch what happens.

Pride sings and dances; humility sighs.