Humility Quotes
If arrogance is the heady wine of youth, then humility must be its eternal hangover.
If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a rabbit, followed by the animal most willing to obey the commands of a rabbit.
...for chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of a disciple.
To eat meat is just a habit after we were born. In fact, we are not born to eat meat.
Education has to cultivate humility and discipline, but today it is yielding a harvest of pride and envy.
There is nothing that isn't perfect, the only reason we don't see that perfection constantly is because we lack humility.
If you really have humility when you love, there is only one thought: "What can I do for my beloved?"
If you suffer in love, if you have problems in love, it's because you don't have enough humility.
Every day work on your humility through your meditation, giving more of yourself, giving those things you don't want to give.
In meditation the mind stops, thought ceases. When thought stops, the world stops. When the world stops, perception stops. When perception stops, the sense of "I" as a perceiver falls away.
Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.
Inspiration pushes me out of my tight intellectual comfort zone and into humility, the wonderous state of not knowing. From this place of zero, limitless possibilities seem to arise.
Our best work can't possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away from those that don't get it unlocks our ability to do great work.
Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it, Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee, Proud of my night since thou with moons dost slake it, Not to partake thy passion, my humility.
It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.
The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.
Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.
A great deal of humility is necessary in the process of self-discovery. Humility is the ability to accept what and who you are at this moment.
Humility is the most important quality in the spiritual life. When it is lacking spiritual growth stops.
We prefer humility in others - and if we prefer it in others - we can soon prefer it in ourselves.
"The person next to me meditates better than I do. They're purer." - This is the ego feeling sorry for itself.
Humility accepts the very nature of a human being is complete, unadulterated, ecstatic joy.
Practice humility constantly. Whenever you start to think well of yourself, push those thoughts aside. Whenever you think ill of yourself, push those thoughts aside.
Humility means coming to the root of the matter, honestly looking at yourself and saying: "This is me for better or for worse."
I must play my role, great or small - that is humility, without self-importance, without self-indulgence.
Humility means freedom. It provides growth and takes you out of the cycle of change that you are currently in, which is stagnation.
The fact that you see a manifold world with different times, places and conditions -this exists only because of a lack of humility.
Only the ego can fear, experience hate, lust and jealousy. Humility experiences none of these things - it merges into the transcendental awareness of perfection.
When we interact with others the ego manifests. We have to show that we're superior or that we know more, are more spiritual, evolved - or that we're the worst, everyone is better.
It's very easy for us to be humble when no one else is around. There is no reason for us to demonstrate our superiority, because no one challenges it.
