Top 100 Quotes About True Humility
#1. True humility isn't thinking less of yourself. It's thinking of yourself exactly the way God thinks of you; not more and not less.
Praying Medic
#2. For true humility is, in a way, a very real despair: despair of myself, in order that I may hope entirely in You.
Thomas Merton
#3. Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
Simone Weil
#4. It does not pay away a penny from you to say "am sorry", "I won't do that again"! It does not take away your integrity to appreciate the very little that you have obtained from someone, even if it's not much! True humility speaks "little is enough if God is in it.
Israelmore Ayivor
#5. God never intended true humility to be a fabric softener for our aspirations. We aren't to be ambitious for our own honor or glory. But we are to be ambitious for God's honor and glory, radically so.
Matt Perman
#6. True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.
Edmund Burke
#7. True humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#8. That which we look on with unselfish love
And true humility is surely ours,
Even as a lake looks at the stars above
And makes within itself a heaven of stars.
Mary Gardiner Brainard
#9. True humility is absolute obedience and dependence on God. It puts Him first, others second, and ourselves third in all things.
John Bevere
#10. It taught me that ... there can be no true humility and no true compassion where there is no courage.
Whittaker Chambers
#11. True humility is a kind of self-annihilation; and this is the centre of all virtues.
John Wesley
#12. True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.
Martin Luther
#14. Pride is not the opposite of shame, but it's source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.
General Iroh
#15. When grace changes the heart, submission out of fear changes to submission out of love, and true humility is born.
William Hendriksen
#16. True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.
Bryant H. McGill
#17. Faith and humility are at their root one, and that we can never have more of true faith than we have of true humility. It is possible to have strong intellectual convictions and assurance of the truth while pride is still in the heart, but it makes living faith, which has power with God, impossible.
Andrew Murray
#18. Get rid of pride; it'll only ride you to the wrong side of life. May God's words guide your faith to abide in true humility. Kick off pride; embrace humility!
Israelmore Ayivor
#19. When it comes to true humility in the face of history, nothing beats complete silence.
Lev Grossman
#20. To learn true humility, we need more than a redefinition of greatness; we need even more than Jesus' personal example of humble service. What we need is His death.
C.J. Mahaney
#21. True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.
C.S. Lewis
#22. O son, thou hast not true humility, The highest virtue, mother of them all; But her thou hast not know; for what is this? Thou thoughtest of thy prowess and thy sins Thou hast not lost thyself to save thyself.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#24. True humility is being able to accept criticisms as graciously as we accept compliments.
Sabrina Newby
#25. To confess, then, is to praise and glorify God; it is an exercise in self-knowledge and true humility in the atmosphere of grace and reconciliation.
Augustine Of Hippo
#26. True humility is not in the absence of confidence but strength restrained.
Bill Johnson
#27. May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.
Saint Ignatius
#28. This was defeat. This was failure; a quiet, ashen world. True humility and obedience, where the knee is bowed to the inevitable, the ring is kissed without pride or restraint.
Ian McDonald
#29. True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.
C.S. Lewis
#30. There is nothing that comes closer to true humility than the intelligence. It is impossible to feel pride in one's intelligence at the moment when one really and truly exercises it.
Simone Weil
#31. True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.
Tryon Edwards
#32. No structure of virtue can possibly be raised in our soul unless, first, the foundations of true humility are laid in our heart.
John Cassian
#33. Until you can leave the matter of forgiveness to God, you will not have acquired true humility.
Colleen McCullough
#34. False modesty is an attempt to tear yourself down. True humility focuses more on build up others.
Tony Dungy
#35. True humility means giving joy to others.
Sri Chinmoy
#36. 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
#38. Accept that you are that - you are the matchless, eternal reality. That's true seeing, true humility.
Frederick Lenz
#39. True humility means total dependence on God for everything.
T. B. Joshua
#40. God hath sworn to lift on high Who sinks himself by true humility.
John Keble
#41. The artist alone among men knows what true humility means. His reach forever exceeds his grasp. He can never be satisfied with his work. He knows when he has done well, but he knows he has never attained his dream. He knows he never can.
Rheta Childe Dorr
#42. A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish acts, which elevate and ennoble the most sacred message that has come to our world.
Ellen G. White
#44. Whoever hates his sins will stop sinning; and whoever confesses them will receive remission. A man can not abandon the habit of sin if he does not first gain enmity toward sin, nor can he receive remission of sin without confession of sin. For the confession of sin is the cause of true humility.
Isaac Of Nineveh
#45. True humility involves opposites. The truly humble work in silence. Because they do not speak of their accomplishments, credit for them can never be taken away.
Laozi
#46. He who wants to learn true humility should reflect upon the Passion of Jesus. (267)
Mary Faustina Kowalska
#47. True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.
Ralph W. Sockman
#48. Gratitude is the beginning of wisdom. Stated differently, true wisdom cannot be obtained unless it is built on a foundation of true humility and gratitude.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#49. True humility is expressed in deeds, not words. The humble are those who truly walk the same ground as everyone else - not necessarily with grovelling, hunched backs, but certainly not lording it over others, either.
Julian Baggini
#50. A true leader must be able to command with an iron fist, not just a humble heart.
Evan Meekins
#51. Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.
Benjamin Franklin
#52. True karate is this: that in daily life one's mind and body be trained and developed in a spirit of humility, and that in critical times, one be devoted utterly to the cause of justice.
Gichin Funakoshi
#53. Home cooking is the true embodiment of love. It makes us show patience, kindness, humility, hope, and perseverance.
Agus Ekanurdi
#54. He was the sort of man who only wanted to be told what he already assumed was true.
Stephen L. Carter
#55. People often think the Devil tries to influence people to do "bad things." While this is true, the demonic strategy is also much deeper. He tries to tempt us to get our needs met without relationship and without humility, the way he wanted to in the beginning.
Henry Cloud
#56. We have to love technology enough to describe it accurately. And we have to love ourselves enough to confront technology's true effect on us.
Sherry Turkle
#57. In the mercy of God, the little thing done with humility will enable us to be found in the same place as the saints who have labored much and been true servants of God.
Dorotheus Of Gaza
#58. In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them.
Nicholas Of Cusa
#59. Rid your body of its impurities, let your speech be true and sweet, feel friendship for the world, and with humility seek wealth and knowledge.
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
#61. The very design of the gospel doth tend to self-abasing; and the work of grace is begun and carried on in humiliation. Humility is not a mere ornament of a Christian, but an essential part of the new creature: it is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true Christian, and not humble.
Richard Baxter
#62. Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.
George Arliss
#64. Teach me. Lord, my true condition; Bring me childlike to Thy knee; Stripped of every low ambition, Willing to be led by Thee.
Henry Francis Lyte
#65. I had not yet learned that one cannot really be superior without humility and tolerance and human understanding. I did not yet know that in order to belong to a rare and higher breed one must first develop the true power and talent of selfless immolation.
Thomas Wolfe
#66. Humility is the proper attitude towards all true greatness, including one's own greatness as a human being, but above all towards the greatness which is not oneself, which is beyond one's self
Karol Wojtyla
#67. I told you it was easy," HARV said.
"True, but you say that about everything."
"That's because everything is easy for me."
"Everything but humility."
"No, that's easy, too. I just choose not to practice it.
John Zakour
#69. Humility is the part of wisdom, and is most becoming in men. But let no one discourage self-reliance; it is, of all the rest, the greatest quality of true manliness.
Lajos Kossuth
#70. He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.
Ernest Hemingway,
#71. If you go against growth, you go against yourself. How ready are we to face, accept and deal with the situations that comes to us unexpectedly in our partners. It takes a big heart to face situations but above all it takes simplicity, humility and self denial to show true love and care.
William Pious Akakpo
#72. It is not until Christians study the humility of Jesus as the very essence of His redemption, as the only true relationship to the Father, that the terrible lack of actual, heavenly humility will become a burden and a sorrow.
Andrew Murray
#73. Humility and self-restraint is the True Objective of Kenpo
Ed Parker
#74. True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.
Ryan Holiday
#75. Why is it that self-confidence is so often cocky and self-assured so often selfish? Neither has to be true. Having confidence doesn't require being superior over another and being self-assured doesn't require taking advantage of another.
Charles F. Glassman
#76. The call to humility has been too little regarded in the church because its true nature and importance have been too little apprehended. It is not something that we bring to God, or that He bestows; it is simply the sense of entire nothingness that comes when we see how truly God is everything.
Andrew Murray
#77. Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment instead. It is such a willingness to live with bewilderment that characterizes the true wise man.
Richard Rohr
#78. I believe everyone should have an opportunity to search for truth their own way. Humility, peace, child-like enthusiasm, acceptance, and sincerity is the true infinity engine!
Akiane Kramarik
#79. Make me the father, O Lord, who will show my sons enough of a sense of humor, so that they will always be serious, but never take themselves too seriously. Give them humility, so they will always remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength.
Thom S. Rainer
#80. True service is a lifestyle. It acts from the ingrained patterns of living. It springs spontaneously to meet human need.
Richard J. Foster
#81. A true diva is graceful, and talented, and strong, and fearless and brave and someone with humility.
Beyonce Knowles
#82. The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.
Mother Teresa
#83. In a great library, you get into society in the widest sense ... From that great crowd you can choose what companions you please, for in these silent gatherings ... the highest is at the service of the lowest with a grand humility. In a library you become a true citizen of the world.
W. Somerset Maugham
#84. Humility does not mean believing oneself to be inferior, but to be freed from self-importance. It is a state of natural simplicity which is in harmony with our true nature and allows us to taste the freshness of the present moment.
Matthieu Ricard
#85. Humility, meekness, magnanimity, and love to preserve unity! These, these are the roads, the true roads of the Church. Let us listen to this again. Humility against vanity, against arrogance - humility, meekness, magnanimity, and love preserve unity.
Pope Francis
#86. True knowledge should not produce pride; it should produce humility ... Because the more you know, the more you know how much you don't know.
Mark Batterson
#87. May any praise of your character come from others instead of yourself.
Joyce Rachelle
#88. Never be proud but show humility towards others, true wisdom lies in being humble.
Radhe Maa
#89. All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost ... Each human soul has in a sense to enact for itself the gigantic humility of the Incarnation. Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
G.K. Chesterton
#90. Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.
Ernest Hemingway,
#91. True intimacy with God always brings humility.
Beth Moore
#92. It happens, I do not know how, that most of the proud never really discover their true selves. They think they have conquered their passions and they find out how poor they really are only after they die.
John Climacus
#94. The surest mark of true conversion is humility.
J.C. Ryle
#95. A true hero protects his identiy, not out of fear, but out of humility.
Jessica Jung
#96. There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
Arthur Helps
#97. Pride is a deeply rooted ailment of the soul. The penalty is misery; the remedy lies in the sincere, life-long cultivation of humility, which means true self-evaluation and a proper perspective toward past, present and future.
Robert Gordis
#98. Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
John Calvin
#99. If you wish to attain to true knowledge of the Scriptures, hasten to acquire first an unshakeable humility of heart. That alone will lead you, not to the knowledge that puffs up, but to that which enlightens, by the perfecting of love.
John Cassian
#100. The goal of using our voice is not just to be noticed, but with humility to gracefully be fully present in relationships. Deferring to another person does not require that we be ignored; allowing that is cowardice. Hiding, a form of dishonesty, prevents true community.
Rosalie De Rosset
