Humility Quotes

I do so love hearing people speak passionately on any subject, other than themselves.

He tried juggling with raw eggs – but only once.

A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things.

The pride which is proud of want of pride is the most intolerable of all.

People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with ‘welcome’ written on it.

The fledgling and ragtag American army turned its state into a semi-plausible advantage, encouraging enlistees to wear their own "hunting shirts" to build on the reputation of frontier marksmen.

Vision and persistence will take you to the top of the leadership mountain, but only humility will keep you there.

He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind.

… the Sufi attitude is: ‘Let the real truth, whatever it may be, be revealed to me’.

It is a sad thing to become so blinded and deafened by pride that you are no longer concerned about whether or not God is pleased with your actions.

Humility is recognizing we can't give anything to God that He hasn't already given to us.

1052The power of one hundred proud men cannot influence the world as much as of one humble servant of God. Tom Krause

The power of one hundred proud men cannot influence the world as much as of one humble servant of God. Tom Krause

By being high, you become low and by being low, you become high. By being humble, you become high.

There is only one certain test of the virtue and that is humiliation. The acceptance of humiliation alone shows the depth and reality of our humility.

It is an illusion to worry about pride without having those things that may predispose someone to fall into the trap of pride...

Never believe you're so great or important, so right or proud, that you cannot kneel at the feet of someone you hurt and offer a humble, sincere apology.

You don't have to be a big name to do big things. Shine does not require recognition.

Humility raises us not by human arrogance but by divine grace.

Vengeance would have us assault an enemy's pride to beat him down. But vengeance hides a dangerous truth, for a humbled foe gains patience, courage, strength, and greater determination.

I was wrong, you were right. I'm dumb, you're smart. I'm ugly, and you're a stone-cold fox.

If you are humble you will never have to struggle against positive change.

I overreacted to praise, signing an autograph. I'd write a check to buy it back.

Humility is recognizing the fullness of our sin, so we can embrace the fullness of God's mercy.

The only competition in art is the search for truth. No matter who gets there first, we all win.

You must love yourself first to the soul of your aura...

Plimpton was a presence. He looked for ways in which he could make himself ridiculous. That made him a great storyteller.

Wonderful music like this was the worst hurt there could be. The whole world was the symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen.

Life is not a competition with others. Life is a competition with yourself—to do your personal best each day.

People who have fallacious objectives are like the barren soil. The flowers grow from soil which is composed of the right objectives.

In reverent pauses, when we slow down and think about the gift of life, we may briefly touch humility.

The subtle whispers, cues and nudges are there as guideposts, to gently carry the humble listener along the path back to the source and the true self.

Humility is a virtue that one can find, in which God in heaven rejoices, and in His love he enfolds you, close to his heart He does bind.

Humility is patient because it is neither past nor forward seeking — it is content.

Surrender is not a weakness, but rather an empowering state of humility.

Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment instead. It is such a willingness to live with bewilderment that characterizes the true wise man.

A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other graces, but it is very difficult to counterfeit humility. You soon detect mock humility.

Think less of yourself and more of others…and others will think more of you. ~Jason Versey

Ability to laugh at evil, to relativize symbols without dismissing them is usually a sign of a rather healthy person. Puritans and reformers can never laugh.

Right words make all of us feel falsely important. Right action keeps all of us forever beginners.

. . . the humblest, and at the same time most balanced and capacious, praised most, while the crank, misfits and malcontents praised least.

Great leaders are the first to say, “I was wrong. Let’s make a change.

There’s nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility

I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that it is authentic.

For the Javanese...the purpose of knowledge (kaweruh) is love, not ambition or cleverness. Knowledge comes from caring enough to suffer and learn.

Humility is not just thinking less of yourself or thinking lanyard less of your gifts than others, It is freedom from thinking of yourself at all

Humility is not thinking less of myself, but thinking about myself less.

Be humble and set the balls of your dreams rolling till God himself decides what next! As for "pride", allow it to go as a lone ranger!

Humility and Trustworthiness are not rooted only in Presentation, Voice modulation or Nice Jorganbut in Actions and Intentions that speak louder than you do and they last longer

Pride is not the opposite of shame, but it's source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.