Humility Quotes

Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.

I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation. And my conversation with God is very open-ended. I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world.

There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status.

There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.

Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.

The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

Inspiration comes only to those who seek it with humility toward their own achievements and reverence toward the achievements of God.

Those who travel the high road of humility are not troubled by heavy traffic.

Humility recognizes that no one can change someone else, but with faith, effort, and the help of God, we can undergo our own mighty change of heart.

Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin experiments.

Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.

We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.

When allowed to return to the class, your feelings of humility and lonesomeness will render you a much finer student and person.

The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.

Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.

Let us be humble and keep ourselves down: - Obedience! Humility! Detachment!

God loves us; we need only to summon up the humility to allow ourselves to be loved.

Humility doesn't mean hiding in the corner and pretending you are not strong. Humility means to be what you are.

Substance of Bhakti is Surrender and Humility.

Humility is knowing that you can get an answer from anybody: be it a child, another person, or nature.

Your heart is the center of humility, your mind could be the source of arrogance.

One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

By only becoming aware of Krishna's greatness we can become aware of our minuteness. That's the way to become Humble.

Humility, reverence, compassion, forbearance, sacrifice and self-control are the qualities that reveal the outcome of the true education.

Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed.

A spiritual prayer is a humble prayer. Prayer is the asking of an alms, which requires humility... The lower the heart descends, the higher the prayer ascends.

We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit.

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.

There is false humility and genuine humility and between them, there is a desire of the practitioner to become humble.

Man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs, so plainly as does a dog, when with drooping ears, hanging lips, flexuous body, and wagging tail, he meets his beloved master.

Humility is the mark of a genuine disciple.

When a man truly sees himself, he knows nobody can say anything about him that is too bad.

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them.

Use your light, but dim your brightness.

For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.

Reverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and hearing the good Dhamma, this is the best good luck.

The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.

The joy he brings to the millions of his countrymen, the grace with which he handles all the adulation and the expectations and his innate humility - all make for a one-in-a-billion individual.

This is God's way, the way of humility. It is the way of Jesus; there is no other. And there can be no humility without humiliation.

The real wealth in Krishna Consciousness is Humility. We don't have to become a big devotee rather we have to become a Humble Devotee.

To humiliate and be humiliated, I think, is a crucial element in our whole social structure. It's not only the artist I'm sorry for. It's just that I know exactly where he feels most humiliated.

Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.

...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

Without humility you can't love. Love means looking beyond the self to the other.

Self-confidence may be mistaken for egotism if it is not accompanied by humility of the heart.

If you accept such love with purity and humility, you will understand that Love is neither giving nor receiving -it is participating.