Humility Quotes

We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.

There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.

Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!

He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.

The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.

The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

Humility is a very important trait in a critic.

I have as big of an ego as it gets, but I have, stunningly, a lot of humility considering some of the accomplishments I've had.

I watch 'Batman & Robin' from time to time. It's the worst movie I ever made, so it's a good lesson in humility.

We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

Some forty years of experience in my field as a scholar and as a teacher have given me great confidence mixed with greater humility.

I bow to my opponent in praise and thanks. After the fight is a time for humility, acceptance and analysis, no matter the result.

It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.

Humility is the mother of giants.

God will bless us if we walk in humility.

If history teaches anything, it teaches humility.

Now that everyone is reinventing and innovating, advantage goes to those who keep at it. We need to greet even success with humility.

Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.

When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough.

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success.

Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.

We saw men haying far off in the meadow, their heads waving like the grass which they cut. In the distance the wind seemed to bend all alike.

I warn people, your 40s will require massive amounts of humor and humility.

Humility was a cult in my family. I only got it out of my father by accident when he was very old that he had won an Olympic gold medal.

Dealing with the old school rappers, you see a lot of humility. When you're new, nothing is wrong. Everything is tight. Because you're trying to hype the world into believing in you.

All converted people should labor to adorn the doctrine they profess by humility. If they can do nothing else, they can strive to be humble.

I think people would be surprised by his [Alessandro Michele] humility.

The woman had a humble, cringing manner. Of course, she had discovered that, having neither money nor virtue, she had better be humble if she knew what was good for her.

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.

It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.

I have never been disappointed when I asked in a humble and sincere way for God's help. I pray often. I think I pray more often since January 12th.

Humility is authenticity. It comes from the Latin word humus, meaning "earth." As the church has taught, we're made of dust, and unto dust we shall return.

Comedy - and I say this with humility - comedy needs me.

Humility with energy is often mistaken for pride.

We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.

Where annual elections end, there slavery begins ... Humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey.

Expecting to be wrong about most things most of the time brings, finally, the kind of humility that leads to peace. I think.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)

All of our holy fathers knew this and all with one accord teach that perfection in holiness can be achieved only through humility.

Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.

And when we would make much of that which cannot matter much to thee, forgive us -a frequent part of the prayer that opened sermons.

The whole thing of this business is to retain your enthusiasm and, in a sense, retain your innocence and try to practice as much humility as possible.

One does have to learn to travel with a degree of humility and that reflected in writing and personality.

Any real accomplishment in the world reflects the efforts of a lot of people. . . . For an individual to claim personal responsibility was the height of arrogance.

Your own malice is the bitterest of all evils. Is it then possible to correct malice by means of evil? Having a beam in your own eye, can you pull out the mote from the eye of another?

Humility about how little I know has encouraged me to listen more carefully and more wisely.

Influence requires humility. The essence of influence is others. The key word is relationships.

I think being vulnerable paves the way for humility.