Humility Quotes

The root of all true greatness, is humility.

The author describes Lincoln's attitude in making a deal with a newspaper publisher as, "almost defiant transparency.

The adult author finds that by inadvertently violating the school's alcohol policy, she breaks down some part of the barrier between her and the younger students who are subject to more rules.

Confessions are meant to reveal universal truths through specific examples.

Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me.

Embrace the magical gift of serenity in your daily life. Nothing beats patience, humility, honesty and tranquility.

The judicial wheel is rounded with equality, oiled with honour and functions smoothly with honesty – principally when both members of the Bench and Bar shoulder their responsibilities seriously.

The confession of ignorance is crucial to the pursuit of knowledge. Another way of putting it is that those who pretend to know never will – they lack the humility to learn.

We might not be equal in what we know but we are surely equal, in what we do not know.

We might not be equal in what we know but we are equal in what we do not know.

How often does a man know, without question, that he has done well? I do not think it happens often in anyone's life, and it becomes even rarer once one has a child.

Being a humble person, she gave her pie shop a humble name—PIE.

The exegetical foundations would appear to be weak, and one shouldn’t build huge theological edifices, no matter how splendid or consistent, on weak foundations.

I too was pinched off from a piece of clay, I too modeled by omnipotence and flankedby things too wonderful for me

A man with no humility and integrity can only impress small minds with his worldly possessions .

In a world full of cynics, critics, and competitors, we get to choose instead to be cheerleaders for others.

Jesus let the disciples know that they were striving in the wrong direction. They were trying to climb up a ladder that they instead should be climbing down.

Simplicity is the beauty of life.

He was one of life’s great helpers, for he cleaned up foul places and made them sweet.

Church is not meant to be fun. It's meant to be formative.

To nurture your career, it makes sense to cultivate your strengths. To nurture your moral core, it is necessary to confront your weaknesses.

True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.

There are three keys for your journey. Humility, wisdom, love. Don’t leave without them - they will enrich you all the way. And they will bless those around you.

There is nothing new under the sun but that of the Son. Man's rebellion against God has always been because he would rather fall in pride than rise in humility.

A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.

I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.

If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.

One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered.

Horizontal (human-centered) grief is much less concerned with being broken and more concerned with being busted.

What causes all this?""Pride. What else?

Saying of the ProphetHumilityHumility and courtesy are themselves a part of piety.

If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things.

As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself.

Humility is the nearly impossible task of being more concerned with our own sins that we are with the sins of others.

Our humility before God has no value, except that it prepares us to reveal the humility of Jesus to our fellow men.

The shape of evil is much more superficiality and blindness than the usual list of hot sins. God hides, and is found, precisely in the depths of everything.

If you are anything other than humbled in the presence of love, you are not in the presence of love.

Humility and pride will forever battle whenever or wherever love is concerned

The devil…the prowde spirite…cannot endure to be mocked.

Mary-born Lord, humble us so that we also might say, "Let it be with me according to your word.

No one is is sure of his premise as the man who knows too little.

In every family there is a murderer, a thief and a crazy person. And if you have a little Blue blood in the line, you can be sure there are more than one of each.

Too many non-achievers confuse humility with humiliation.

Some of you need a lesson in humility. While your arrogance may give you a sense of power, it may serve you better to put it aside. Those are the times you will be the light of the world.

[Tea-masters] have given emphasis to our natural love of simplicity, and shown us the beauty of humility. In fact, through their teachings tea has entered the life of the people.

Ironic that those most holy are least likely to see themselves that way.

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

A humble man speaks not of his own humility