Humility Quotes

Foolish defiance was his lifelong response to being ill.

I've grown more OK with mystery as I've gotten older.

Quite possibly, this depressive illness was the familiar sort that grew from perfectionist expectations.

Andrew Carnegie was an inventor only in the sense that he adopted and adapted the discoveries of others.

He had the ruthlessness of uninterrupted success.

Let us retreat when we can, not when we must. Lord Chatham

Happiness is always on the other side of being teachable.

Folly is a child of power.

To be great, practice simplicity and express humility.

Those who consider themselves good teachers probably aren't.

I love the vastness of the ocean. I love its serenity, tranquility, humility, and purifying power.

It would be better to be deceived a hundred times than to live a life of suspicion.

God doesn't want meerly action but hearts driving action.

One world leader warned another "the error of relying on the capability you have rather than developing the capability you need.

Those that are too refined to be simple need to be refined again.

Purple prose attracts attention more than converts.

It's one thing to admire a man's work. It's another to get your picture in the paper doing it." General Clayton

Policy was not reconsidered because the governing group had no habit of purposeful consultation.

JFK to RFK: To survive in politics, you sometimes have to be willing to make fun of yourself.

There is no middle ground for the selfless and the selfish.

It is not great counts God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus.

My own spirit, soul, and body are my nearest machinery for sacred service.

Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness and hypocrisy.

The very precariousness of weather excites a large amount of earnest prayer.

I like to introduce myself, because THEN I can get in all the facts." The usually self-deprecating John Hay on the ironic formality of signing his own commission as Secretary of State.

He had no desire to grandstand for his country or himself.

If he could be hard on kings and cabinets, he was invariably kind to his colleagues.

Possibly, there was something to be said for the intellectual discipline of second-guessing what you thought was true.

After the original rapture of conversion had settled in, (Bob) Dylan backed away from his obviously Christian lyrics and returned to his more metaphorical use of language.

Size and elaboration were often mistaken for importance.

In brokenness comes beauty, divine fragility.

People who are easily embarrassed – those who blush too often and too soon – usually end up retreating from excellence.

To wish to withstand the Holy Spirit would be the one unforgivable sin.

The Book that made the nation was destroying the nation.

You can recognize a saint by the wounds they don't disguise.

God gave us feelings to feel them, not to judge them. He is the Judge.

The more broken you are, the more light gets through.

I do not desire power, but rather to submit to the will of Elamm’.

There is no such thing as an independent Christian.

Culture is nested in context, not genes.

When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?

Soft power is quiet persistence.

We must steel ourselves against utopias and be content with a slightly better state.

I was only 44, which is childhood philosophy.

Development is a voluntary process. You need a positive decision to make the right steps, but it starts with introspection.

Unlike most fine writers, he wasn't in love with his own words.

Community in the American university is paradoxically a private and individual decision.

Goldwater had never even considered a non-Arizonan. Like a man on his deathbed, he wanted to be surrounded only by friends.

A confused and weak man hides his weakness and uncertainty with fiery speeches.

Do not confuse humility with humiliation.