Humility Quotes
Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation; humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer; the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.
When one becomes conscious of his great humility, he has already lost it. When one begins boasting of his humility, it has already become pride-the antithesis of humility.
And in self-giving we become really happy. Real humility is the expansion of our consciousness and our service.
We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again." ~Fiddler, pg. 558
What's hard, it seems, is living up to the words spoken by Jesus Christ, who preached naught but love and mercy and justice and humility.
Without the necessary humility to worship, I subconsciously desired to be worshiped, not in a crazy Napoleanic manner, but like a modern-day celebrity.
I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.
Let us never forget that if we wish to die like the Saints we must live like them. Let us force ourselves to imitate their virtues, in particular humility and charity.
If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity and faith, and seek not at any time the fame of being learned.
Humility sets us free to do what is really good, by showing us our illusions and withdrawing our will from what was only an apparent good.
The ocean doesn't care about you. It makes your boat feel tiny. The oceans are great promoters of religion, or at least of humility-but not in everyone.
Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.
It must be quite difficult, concealing your superior male qualities behind a mask of feigned humility.” Why, Gillian, it’s that very ability that makes us so superior.
Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value of art is not beauty, but right action.
I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong.
For me, the massiveness of what I don't know is one way I experience God. It creates in me a feeling of humility and a sense of gratitude.
Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open.
The art of humility begins with a recognition of our dependence on others and an appreciation of God's gift of life.
If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians.
GLOUCESTER: I do not know that Englishman alive With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night: I thank my God for my humility.
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
At the end of it all, it is our relationship with people that will determine whether they will share in our pain if we fall into dangers.
He couldn't be a doctor, or he would have a quieter and more persuasive manner.
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?
What had she have to wish for? Nothing but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own.
What had she to wish for? Nothing, but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own.
It was amusing to me to see how the detective's overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a child asking questions of its teacher.
Wish me everything that you can wish for the woman you dearly love, and I have as good as got it, John. I have better than got it, John.
My greatest concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are concerned with your failure.
Lincoln admitted his infirmities to make way for his spring.
Harshaw had the arrogant humility of the man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ignorance and he saw no point in 'measurements' when he did not know what he was measuring.
Nothing is more deceitful, " said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is asacrament that should be taken kneeling.
By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You shewed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion and somethings an indirect boast.
We need to let ourselves be evangelized by the poor. They have much to teach us.
the rent here may be low but i believe we have it on very hard terms --sense & sensibility
He was vain and tended to surround himself with intellectual and moral pygmies.
He was the sort of man who only wanted to be told what he already assumed was true.
I don’t like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution.
We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinions because we very often differ from ourselves.