Top 48 Best Humility Quotes
#1. The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.
Theodor W. Adorno
#2. Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality.
Criss Jami
#4. It seems to me that every step forward in my life has been one that brings me to a better understanding of this: that you do your thing every day the best that you can, and you approach any success at it with humility.
Val Kilmer
#5. Faith, doubt, humility, and confidence - this is the stuff and substance of theology at its best. Swagger, smugness, and certainty - this is the stuff and substance of ideology at its worst.
Austin Fischer
#6. The balance between confidence and humility is best learned through extensive experience and mistakes.
Michael Steinhardt
#8. Because children already have a realization of their weakness, is this not the best opportunity to apply the gospel to their hearts?
Matt Chandler
#9. A contemplative is not one who takes his prayer seriously, but one who takes God seriously, who is famished for truth, who seeks to live in generous simplicity, in the spirit. An ardent and sincere humility is the best protection for his life of prayer.
Thomas Merton
#10. They may hail you like an Angel. They may claim you are the world's prince of princes. They may lift you with praise many kilometers above sea level. They may say you are the best of the bests ... But always remember "you are a human being" with flesh and blood.
Israelmore Ayivor
#11. Virtually all native cultures that have survived without fouling their nests have acknowledged that nature knows best, and have had the humility to ask the bears and wolves and ravens and redwoods for guidance.
Janine Benyus
#12. We can ... start making our way back to the Father. We should do so with as much haste and humility as we can summon. Along the way we can count our many blessings and we can applaud the accomplishments of others. Best of all we can serve others.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#13. Here is one of the best means to acquire humility; fix well in mind this maxim: One is as much as he is in the sight of God, and no more.
Francis Of Assisi
#14. The best writers I've read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much.
Don Roff
#16. Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.
David Halberstam
#17. Our best work can't possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away from those that don't get it unlocks our ability to do great work.
Seth Godin
#18. Humility is my best friend, I've always valued it above all other spiritual qualities.
Frederick Lenz
#19. Public servants in this Europe often do their best when they stop caring about whether they'll be fired.
Ron Suskind
#20. Reverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and hearing the good Dhamma, this is the best good luck.
Gautama Buddha
#21. 'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
Alice Walker
#22. A student whose life is filled with woes least had and understood the hands of a good teacher that shape lives in a distinctive way
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#23. We must be willing to fall flat on our faces. Fearlessly putting ourselves out there is simply a required part of the process. At the very least, it results in the gift of humility and, at best, the triumph of our human spirit.
Jill Badonsky
#24. You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.
Criss Jami
#25. I was a production assistant. I saw what people who are full of themselves are like - another reason not to lose your humility! I have a mouth on me so I wasn't the best P.A.
Octavia Spencer
#26. One of the best lessons we can learn is humility. You should define your material possessions; they shouldn't define you. #
Celso Cukierkorn
#27. In the name of "force protection," the military often rolls up windows, builds walls, and points rifles at the outside world. The best force protection, however, is to be surrounded by friends and allies.
Eric Greitens
#28. Some people think humility is thinking lowly of yourself. Some people think it's not thinking about yourself. But, to me, the best definition of humility is radical self-awareness from a distance, seeing themselves from a distance and saying, what's my problem?
David Brooks
#29. Whatever you do, whatever you know, if you seek to become the best in the world at what that is, then no matter what room you put yourself in, with whichever people, from whatever walks of life, with inner confidence and outer humility, you will hold your own.
Derek Handley
#30. The problem with thinking that you are the absolute best, is that it leaves no room for you to become any better and while you live life thinking that you're the best, truth is a lot of people around you are already better and becoming even more better.
C. JoyBell C.
#31. The best way to achieve great success is to learn from wise people. Use them extensively with love, gratitude, and humility.
Debasish Mridha
#32. I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, 'Does this suck?' and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, 'I'm on fire, I'm amazing!' and I don't think that's the way to work.
David O. Russell
#33. Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction.
Samuel Rutherford
#34. I saw that we're all doing the best we can. This is how a lifetime of humility begins.
Byron Katie
#35. The best way to learn how to work with actors is to have had experience of trying to act yourself - it will teach you humility if nothing else.
Alexander Mackendrick
#36. Ripples of karmic events are best humbly done in an artistic, significant, unique karmic harvests without any forms of retaliation.
Angelica Hopes
#37. The company owner doesn't need to win. The best idea does.
John C. Maxwell
#38. There is something really good to say about humility. Being confident and humble is a great combination, maybe the best of all!
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#39. Maybe it's a cultural thing, being Korean, but my first reflex has always been to exude humility - but it doesn't help you in acting. For acting, humility isn't the best thing. It'll weaken your work.
Steven Yeun
#40. Parenthood offers many lessons in patience and sacrifice. But ultimately, it is a lesson in humility. The very best thing about your life is a short stage in someone else's story.
Michael Gerson
#41. Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.
James Montgomery
#42. Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best.
Euripides
#43. Humility is one of the best expressions of self respect.
Debasish Mridha
#44. The way people are forever rolling their eyes to heaven and saying: "Perhaps it's all for the best," when they are perfectly dead sure it's not, makes me enraged. Humility or resignation or whatever you choose to call it, is simply impotent inertia. I'm for a more militant religion!
Jean Webster
#45. Look at your weaknesses, not at your strengths, and pay attention to what you still need to do, instead of rehearsing in your mind what you've already accomplished. This is the best way to get and keep humility.
Anonymous
#46. The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.
Saadi
#47. Readiness is a form of humility, spurred by a recognition of how little we can know or control. Hardship is unavoidable. Resilient people recognize this reality. Then they prepare themselves for it, seeking to meet it as best they can, on their own terms.
Eric Greitens
#48. I realized that all my life, my values were based upon typical middle-class American values: hard work, doing good, living well, owning things, following the rules & being the best I can be ... but God clearly says, those are not MY values. I value justice, mercy & humility.
John Green
