Humility Quotes

Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.

It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.

Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.

There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are in effect returning to the ground of our being.

Act in such a way that your humility may not be weakness, nor your authority be severity. Justice must be accompanied by humility, that humility may render justice lovable.

It is always the secure who are humble.

Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger.

Obedience is the burial of the will and the resurrection of humility.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.

I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that He is indeed our Master.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

If we are to understand anything of the human mind we must approach the people of the past with humility rather than an overconfident superiority.

As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.

As gifts increase in you, let your humility grow, for you must consider that everything is given to you on loan.

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.

Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.

We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.

I have lived as plain Mr. Jinnah and I hope to die as plain Mr. Jinnah. I am very much averse to any title or honours and I will be more than happy if there was no prefix to my name.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.

Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others.

I don't know what to say about myself. I don't know myself (laughs). People say my humility but I believe we're all humble in our own way. I try to stay close to my family and friends.

When I sing, I believe. I'm honest. If you want to get an audience with you, there's only one way. You have to reach out to them with total honesty and humility.

To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.

Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.

Humility is the forgetfulness of self.

I have no use for humility. I am a fellow with an exceptional talent.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.

A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle.

Each moment that passes changes you...You can't even own yourself. How can you ever hope to own anyone or anything else.

Above all, always see Jesus in every person, and consequently treat each one not only as an equal and as a brother or sister, but also with great humility, respect and selfless generosity.

When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

...the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.

There's no such thing as a mistake, really. It's just an opportunity to do something else.

Continue to learn with humility, not hubris. Hubris is boring.

One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't realise how often you're disrespected until you are surrounded by respect.

Godly fear, faith, and humility is the true threefold cord that can’t easily be broken (see Ecclesiastes 4:12).

Integrity is built by defeating the temptation to be dishonest; humility grows when we refuse to be prideful; and endurance develops every time you reject the temptation to give up.

Evil and faults are corrected by good, by love, kindness, meekness, humility, and patience.

The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.

To experience brokenness and humiliation all you have to do is lead.

I have the charisma of the chipmunk. I never have thought I was smart. I thought the people I dealt with were dumb.

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.