Humility Quotes

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...

The pretence leads up to the real thing. When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you...

As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people...

There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he...

Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call 'humble' nowada...

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

Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formi...

Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike t...

We try, when we wake, to lay the new day at God’s feet; before we have finished shaving, it becomes ...

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself,...

I call this a Divine Humility because it is a poor thing to strike our colors to God when the ship i...

We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our plea...

Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formi...

We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doi...

I believe this not in the sense that it is part of my creed, but in the sense that it is one of my o...

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality...

Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever t...

Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. ...

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no...

Look out how you use proud words.When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back.They ...

I write poetry, worry, smile,laughsleepcontinue for a whilejust like most of usjust like all of us;s...

I write poetry, worry, smile,laughsleepcontinue for a whilejust like most of usjust like all of us;s...

'Umble we are 'umble we have been 'umble we shall ever be.

I laboured hard at my book, without allowing it to interfere with the punctual discharge of my newsp...

He couldn't be a doctor, or he would have a quieter and more persuasive manner.

Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.

Weel, ma´am' said Stephen, making the best of it, with a smile; 'when I ha´finished off, I mun quit ...

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

Wish me everything that you can wish for the woman you dearly love, and I have as good as got it, Jo...

Think not that humility is weakness it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and c...

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; w...

He that is low need fear no fall.

People often told him how humble he was, but they did not mean real humility, it was merely that he ...

Give me the lowest place: not that I dareAsk for that lowest place, but Thou hast diedThat I might l...

In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian pligh...

Thus in order to be a "radical" one must be open to the possibility that one's own core assumptions ...

I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or un...

There is not, in a material sense, any benefit to being right about a future you will not experience...

To be humble is to be so sure of one's self and one's mission that one can forego calling excessive ...

LearningTo believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enou...

Modern life seems to recede further and further away from nature, and closely connected with this fa...

To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independe...

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is...

I hope that in victory we are more grateful than proud.

They possess the self- effacing virtues of people who are inclined to be useful but don’t need to pr...

People who are humble about their own nature are moral realists. Moral realists are aware that we ar...

[T]he road to character is built by confronting your own weakness.

There are heroes and schmucks in all worlds. The most important thing is whether you are willing to ...

Her characters tend to err when they reject the grubby and complex circumstances of everyday life fo...

Abilene had gone from boomtown to Bible Belt, from whorehouses to schoolmarms, without any of the in...

there was perhaps a strain of humility that was more common then than now, that there was a moral ec...

To nurture your career, it makes sense to cultivate your strengths. To nurture your moral core, it i...

A true Democratic Spirit is up there with religious faith and emotional maturity and all those other...

[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need...

There is nothing I can do to undo what I did. I can only say again how sorry I am to those I let dow...

Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life wo...

The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph...