Humility Quotes
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility.
Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.
The deepest repentance and humility and our own frailty and weakness must be realized before we can know God's strength.
Economics teaches humility because it teaches us more about what we can't do than what we can do
I had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it. Once you realize there is life after mistakes, you gain a self-confidence that never goes away.
Confident and courageous leaders have no problems pointing out their own weaknesses and ignorance.
We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
Without humility of heart all the other virtues by which one runs toward God seem - and are - absolutely worthless.
No man can attain to the knowledge of God but by humility. The way to mount high is to descend.
Success is one of the worst enemies of success, because success tends to breed complacency and lack of humility.
If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it.
To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness.
When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.
Do not always scrupulously confine yourself to certain rules, or particular forms of devotion, but act with a general confidence in GOD, with love and humility.
The humble listen to their brothers and sisters because they assume they have something to learn. They are open to correction, and they become wiser through it.
A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other graces, but it is very difficult to counterfeit humility.
In the facades we put on for others we demonstrate our potential; through our children we reveal our reality.
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.
The complementary movement towards divine love is growth in humility which is the acceptence of the reality about ourselves, our own weakness and limitations.
Here is one of the best means to acquire humility; fix well in mind this maxim: One is as much as he is in the sight of God, and no more.
The disillusionment with our own abilities is, perhaps, one of the most important things that can ever happen to us.
Humility exists only in those who are poor enough to see that they possess nothing of their own.
Something very beautiful happens to people when their world's fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.
Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God!
We learn from here the humility of the Holy One, Blessed is He. Since man is in the likeness of the angels, and they would be jealous of him, for this reason, He consulted them.
Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction.
The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.
Humility is simply the disposition which prepares the soul for living on trust.
Those that expose themselves as knowing the truth, lose the battle of innocence and humility and eventually pull a trigger at the universe. Wisdom chooses the unknown to be its reason.
