Humility Quotes

Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis.

The complacency of the individual who admires his own excellence is bad enough, but it is more respe...

The devil…the prowde spirite…cannot endure to be mocked.

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment w...

The Marquesa would even have been astonished to learn that her letters were very good, for such auth...

A commander's pride got his soldiers dead.

A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didn't know.

And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers recognising tha...

Just because you can't act EVERYWHERE doesn't mean you don't act ANYWHERE. – Madeleine Albright

Kissinger would probably be outraged even if he reread his own memoirs, on the grounds that they are...

A farmer, as one of his farmer correspondents once wrote to Liberty Hyde Bailey, is "a dispenser of ...

Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. And to come to that u...

We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has ...

A man is as old as his arteries and as young as his ideas.

I was only 44, which is childhood philosophy.

It is not for you to say - you Englishmen, who have conquered your freedom so long ago, that you hav...

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

As for the fear, you'll have to put up with that like the rest of us.

Cheerfulness means a contented spirit, a pure heart, a kind and loving disposition; it means humilit...

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Writers who think THEY are being criticized when only that writing is being criticized are beyond a ...

In the ancient world, this was understood by the Christians, our only (if very imperfect) predecesso...

The narrator finds that as a maturing character grows in stature before her friends that she sees le...

By and large, the mission of any ghost is to offer humility. They point out what's important by mock...

The word 'survivor' carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more tha...

Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this wor...

Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivat...

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else ...

My greatest concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are concerned with your failure.

My dear Sir.Yours of the 13th. is just received. My engagements are such that I can not, at any very...

For thousands of years, it had been nature--and its supposed creator--that had had a monopoly on awe...

PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to recei...

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.

Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of i...

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other wor...

Know thy own point: this kind, this due degreeOf blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,The proper study of mankind is Man.Placed on this isthmus...

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the...

Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done t...

Use every opportunity of humbling yourself before your fellow-men as a help to abide humble before G...

The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but tha...

when the serpent breathed the poison of his pride, the desire to be as God, into the hearts of our f...

Humiliation is the only ladder to honoring God's Kingdom.

Humility is the only soil in which the graces root; the lack of humility is the sufficient explanati...

Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.

Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.

Stand by; for I am holier than you!" What a parody on holiness! Jesus the Holy One is the humble One...

Our humility before God has no value, except that it prepares us to reveal the humility of Jesus to ...

The highest glory of the creature is in being only a vessel, to receive and enjoy and show forth the...

Here is the path to the higher life: down, lower down! Just as water always seeks and fills the lowe...

Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God.

Humility is simply the disposition which prepares the soul for living on trust.

Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the cre...

While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejud...

I'm a writer by profession and it's totally clear to me that since I started blogging, the amount I ...

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

It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most ef...

We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and u...

Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It ...

In the forty minutes I watched the muskrat, he never saw me, smelled me, or heard me at all. When he...

Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fi...

The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is ...

All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female...

I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people eve...

A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any s...

Xerxes, I read, ‘halted his unwieldy army for days that he might contemplate to his satisfaction’ th...

And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black r...

Say you could view a time-lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving th...

I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment....

You are God. You want to make a forest, something to hold the soil, lock up energy, and give off oxy...

Shadow is the blue patch where the light doesn’t hit. It is mystery itself, and mystery is the ancie...

I was in no tent under leaves, sleepless and glad. There was no moon at all; along the world’s coast...

It looked as though the leaves of the autumn forest had taken flight, and were pouring down the vall...

Those people who shoot endless time-lapse films of unfurling roses and tulips have the wrong idea. T...

Were the earth as smooth as a ball bearing, it might be beautiful seen from another planet, as the r...

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. The surface of mystery is not smooth, any mor...

I am sitting here, you are sitting there. Say even that you are sitting across the kitchen table fro...

It was amusing to me to see how the detective's overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a...

The country inspector's face had shown his intense amazement at the rapid and masterful progress of ...

Perhaps when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to...

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious ...

His way was like other people's; he mounted no high horse; he was justa man and a citizen. He indulg...

Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it ta...

Happiness was the responsibility you dreaded, it required the kind of rational discipline you did no...

Imitate Jesus and Socrates

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

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

She was torn between her customer service training and her youthful certitude.

It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous.

Management" of anything as complicated as a woods requires more humility than comes easily to our sp...

I am weary of this notion of faithfulness to a point of view at all cost. Life around us is ever cha...

The humble woman is surprised by all the good that she sees around her rather than scandalized by wh...

The deeper we grow in the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the poorer we become - the more we realize that ev...

Your emotions are exposed when you play golf: humility, pride, anger, it all comes out with each swi...

I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get a...

The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it prove...

Every story of conversion is a story of blessed defeat.

When man comes into the presence of God he will find, whether he wishes it or not, that all those th...