Top 100 Quotes About Humility: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Humility

#1. 3Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.

Anonymous

#2. The importance of humility. We need the humility to know that truth can be ephemeral, that this can be but one version of the truth.

Ken Auletta

#3. And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.

Vince Cable

#4. that both those things are somewhat like humility. The

Benson Hiles

#5. We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.

Johann Lamont

#6. If we go too far down the road of choosing the genetic traits of children, my worry is that parenting will be less a kind of school for humility than it should be, and we will become too accustomed to regarding children as instruments of our ambition and of our desires.

Michael Sandel

#7. If a man is devout, we accuse him of hypocrisy; if he is not, of impiety; if he is humble, we look on his humility as a weakness; if he is generous, we call his courage pride.

Louis Bourdaloue

#8. Your own humility endorses your integrity!

Israelmore Ayivor

#9. Humility is not an attribute but a key to development.

Zoltan Andrejkovics

#10. Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Johannes Tauler

#11. Wisdom begins with the humility to say there's a great deal I don't understand.

Randy Alcorn

#12. Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows.

Helen Nielsen

#13. Thus there will be three effects of nearness to Jesus humility, happiness, and holiness.

Charles Spurgeon

#14. Humility, in its turn, can be achieved only through faith, fear of God, gentleness and the shedding of all possessions.

John Cassian

#15. If you were really humble you would be great, because humility would never squander the magnificent gift of life.

Bryant McGill

#16. Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.

C.S. Lewis

#17. The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it.

Vincent De Paul

#18. The way of awakening and freedom requires that we ask ourselves, with all of the earnestness, honesty, and humility at our command, just this one fundamental question: 'Am I willing to live this moment with as much attention and affection as possible, or am I going to do something else?'

Scott Morrison

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

Alisa Hope Wagner

#20. If you really have humility when you love, there is only one thought: "What can I do for my beloved?"

Frederick Lenz

#21. Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.

Fulton J. Sheen

#22. He also believed that the richest fruit of God's work in our hearts would be evidenced by increasing humility and dependence on Christ for everything, rather than in a victorious Christian life.

Barbara R. Duguid

#23. We should, all of us, be filled with gratitude and humility for our present progress and prosperity. We should be filled with awe and joy at what lies over the horizon. And we should be filled with absolute determination to make the most of it.

William J. Clinton

#24. In your career you have a lot of good moments and bad ones. The important thing is to have enough motivation to keep working all the days with humility and trying to be a better player than before. I am going to try to continue doing this.

Rafael Nadal

#25. We cannot carry the gospel to the poor and lowly while emulating the practices of the rich and powerful. We've been invited into a story that begins with humility and ends with glory; never the other way around.

Jen Hatmaker

#26. Have we the humility to thank our Father for the gift of pain?

Elisabeth Elliot

#27. It's near impossible to always be right when you're innovating. It's easy to get emotionally invested in it, but you need to monitor its impact like a hawk and react if you don't like what you see. And if/when you pull it back, you want to do that communication with transparency and humility.

Jeff Jordan

#28. Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.

John Dryden

#29. What you need is a fundamental humility - the belief that you can learn from anyone.

Clayton Christensen

#30. In ethics, there is a humility; moralists are usually righteous.

John Berger

#31. Barnett says he realized several things in that moment: the need for humility, the importance of remembering that each of us can learn from anyone and that the dismissed symptom can be the key.

Clifton K. Meador

#32. 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.

Thomas Merton

#33. Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?

Saint Bernard

#34. Humility is my best friend, I've always valued it above all other spiritual qualities.

Frederick Lenz

#35. In the ancient world, this was understood by the Christians, our only (if very imperfect) predecessors: Humility is a virtue, pride a vice; We comes from God, I from the Devil.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#36. Humility is realm of a humble heart.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#37. Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.

Saint John Chrysostom

#38. I will not through humility become the devil's attorney

Henry David Thoreau

#39. Love yourself first to fill your heart with bliss. Now give it away with humility, love, and gratitude.

Debasish Mridha

#40. One way to appreciate C.S. Lewis is to see how his Christian humility shaped his life and work.

John Piper

#41. 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.

Steven Weber

#42. Listening to others, especially those with whom we disagree, tests our own ideas and beliefs. It forces us to recognize, with humility, that we don't have a monopoly on the truth.

Janet Yellen

#43. Love forces, at last, this humility: you cannot love if you cannot be loved, you cannot see if you cannot be seen.

James Baldwin

#44. A great deal of humility is necessary in the process of self-discovery. Humility is the ability to accept what and who you are at this moment.

Frederick Lenz

#45. The Lord sometimes allows people who are devoted to Him to fall into such dreadful vices; and this is in order to prevent them from falling into a still greater sin-pride. Your temptation will pass and you will spend the remaining days of your life in humility. Only do not forget your sin.

Seraphim Of Sarov

#46. Despondency is not a state of humility; on the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride
nothing is worse; whether we fall, we must only think of rising again and going on course.

Francois Fenelon

#47. Might it be that the voice of truth can come from the suffering soul who has wrestled with God over mysteries and paradoxes? Might the voice of truth be the one that in wisdom and humility says, "I don't know"?

Wendy Vanderwal-Gritter

#48. Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

Irving Babbitt

#49. Humility means realizing that it's fun to give everything away, particularly the things that you are most attached to.

Frederick Lenz

#50. There is no doubt that God will never be wanting to us, provided that He finds in us that humility which makes us worthy of His gifts, the desire of possessing them, and the promptitude to co-operate industriously with the graces He gives us.

Ignatius Of Loyola

#51. This book is dedicated to all the students I've known over the years who've taught me humility and what it means to really be a kid.

Dr. Kid Brain

#52. If you suffer in love, if you have problems in love, it's because you don't have enough humility.

Frederick Lenz

#53. The transcendental knowledge of devotional service is digested by the engyme of humility.

Radhanath Swami

#54. Humility consists in not esteeming ourselves above other men, and in not seeking to be esteemed above them.

Francis De Sales

#55. For I am aware what ability is requisite to persuade the proud how great is the virtue of humility, which raises us, not by a quite human arrogance, but by a divine grace, above all earthly dignities that totter on this shifting scene.

Augustine Of Hippo

#56. And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

Margaret Mead

#57. There is nothing that isn't perfect, the only reason we don't see that perfection constantly is because we lack humility.

Frederick Lenz

#58. Nothing sets a Christian so much out of the devil's reach than humility.

Jonathan Edwards

#59. Humility is constant forgetfulness of one's achievements.

John Climacus

#60. It has truly been said that 'Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn.

Idries Shah

#61. True humility means total dependence on God for everything.

T. B. Joshua

#62. Humility before God is nothing if not proved in humility before men

Andrew Murray

#63. humility must not be equated to mediocrity and cowardice

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#64. Humility is not a trait I often associate with America.

Mira Nair

#65. My faith instills in me a deep sense of humility and gratitude, reminding me how often I fall short and how much I need the savior, and how thankful I am that God has done for us what we could not do for ourselves.

Karen Hughes

#66. Besides, humility had always seemed to him a specious thing, invented for the comfort of others; you were praised for humility by people because you did not make them feel any more lacking than they already did. It was honesty that he valued;

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#67. Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses.

Dean Koontz

#68. The root of all virtue and grace, of all faith and acceptable worship, is that we know that we have nothing but what we receive, and bow in deepest humility to wait upon God for it.

Andrew Murray

#69. Reverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and hearing the good Dhamma, this is the best good luck.

Gautama Buddha

#70. Learn, he says, that there will be hours, days
and months ahead of feeling absolutely terrible
and nothing can change that; neither new
girlfriends, health professionals, changes of diet, dope, humility, or
God.

Charles Bukowski

#71. We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean ... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.

Michelle Obama

#72. Accept that you are that - you are the matchless, eternal reality. That's true seeing, true humility.

Frederick Lenz

#73. Humility exists only in those who are poor enough to see that they possess nothing of their own.

Angela Of Foligno

#74. Practice humility and patience.

Vincent De Paul

#75. Humility is the only virtue that no devil can imitate. If pride made demons out of angels, there is no doubt that humility could make angels out of demons.

John Climacus

#76. Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.

Francis Of Assisi

#77. Humility is the only lens though which great things can be seen
and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible.

Parker J. Palmer

#78. Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion; the humble is formed to adore, the loving to associate with eternal love.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#79. It is impossible to draw near to God without sorrows, without which human righteousness cannot remain unchanged ... If you desire virtue, than give yourself to every affliction, for afflictions produce humility. If someone abides in virtue without afflictions, the door of pride is opened to him.

Isaac Of Nineveh

#80. I have as big of an ego as it gets, but I have, stunningly, a lot of humility considering some of the accomplishments I've had.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#81. Blessings will never cease to shower upon those who mind their own life with humility of accepting mistakes versus those who find joy in judging others to divert attention from their miserable lives.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#82. Real holiness has love for its essence, humility for its clothing, the good of others as its employment, and the honor of God as its end.

Nathanael Emmons

#83. The fear of the LORD is instruction in wisdom, and k humility comes before honor.

Anonymous

#84. You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.

Val Kilmer

#85. What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with humility.

Albert Einstein

#86. False humility is more insulting than open pride!

Brandon Mull

#87. 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.

Victoria Alexander

#88. Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.

Henry Ward Beecher

#89. We need leaders, we ourselves need to lead from a place that has the audacity to believe that we ourselves can extend the fundamental assumption that all men are created equal to every, man woman and child on this planet. And we need the humility to recognize that we cannot do it alone.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#90. Honesty is grounded in humility and indeed in humiliation, and in admitting exactly where we are powerless.

David Whyte

#91. Self knowledge puts us on our knees, and it is very necessary for love. For knowledge of God gives love, and knowledge of self gives humility

Mother Teresa

#92. Beware of men with theories that explain everything. Trust those who approach the world with humility and cautious insight. The

Mark Bowden

#93. Her father had learned only one thing in prison. Not humility, nor patience, nor understanding...Marshall Kofer had learned to listen, at least to his daughter".

John Grisham

#94. In all teaching there must be a fusion of authority as an adult providing a stable framework for the children in one's care, and humility as another human being ready to educate an equal who may turn out to be a superior.

Yehudi Menuhin

#95. Satan casts out Satan, it is only to enter afresh in a mightier, though more hidden power. Nothing can avail but this, that the new nature in its divine humility be revealed in power to take the place of the old, to become as truly our very nature as that ever was.

Andrew Murray