Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Porter

There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.

Ernst Moritz Arndt

Only those who feel little in the eyes of God, can hope to be mighty in the eyes of men.

Glenda Jackson

To counter-balance the natural humility of motherhood, I garden ... In the garden, more than any place, I really feel successful.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.

Moby

I'd rather be around broken people who have a degree of humility, and just get on with their work.

Moby

I like the humility that comes from being hated. Hopefully some humility and compassion comes out of that.

Kathie Lee Gifford

... humility + humor = humanity.

Kathleen Norris

To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference. While consumer culture speaks only to preferences, treating even whims as needs to be granted (and the sooner the better), monastics sense that this pandering to delusions of self-importance weakens the true self, and diminishes our ability to distinguish desires from needs. It's a price they're not willing to pay.

Karl Marx

The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille

Julia Cameron

The beginner's humility and openness lead to exploration. Exploration leads to accomplishment. All of it begins at the beginning, with the first small and scary step.

Milton Friedman

Humility is the distinguishing virtue of the believer in freedom; arrogance, of the paternalist.

Greg Jackson

Humility comes from how you come at the world. Confidence comes from how you come at yourself.

Georg Brandes

What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which offers no reprisal, became goodness; craven baseness became humility; submission to him who was feared became obedience; inability to assert one's self became reluctance to assert one's self, became forgiveness, love of one's enemies. Misery became a distinction

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.

Jerry Bridges

The fruit of the Spirit is fundamentally relational. Rather than originating with us, it flows to us from our union with Christ, and it flows beyond us to bring us into fellowship with others. The secret of this flow - and our unity with God and others - is humility.

Honore de Balzac

Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

Honore de Balzac

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.

Francis Quarles

The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.

Francis Quarles

The light of the understanding, humility kindleth and pride covereth.

Hugh Laurie

Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was definitely not encouraged, and pleasure or pride would be punishable by death.

Socrates

How many are the things I can do without!

Emily VanCamp

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

Jasper Fforde

I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.

Herbert Hoover

Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man.

Eugene Delacroix

A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.

J. C. Ryle

The surest mark of true conversion is humility.

J. C. Ryle

We know nothing of humility by nature, for we are all born proud.

J. C. Ryle

Let us watch against pride in every shape - pride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride of our own goodness. Nothing is so likely to keep a person out of heaven, and prevent them from seeing Christ, as pride. So long as we think we are something we shall never be saved. Let us pray for and cultivate humility; let us seek to know ourselves correctly, and to find out our place in the sight of a holy God.

If you practice an excellent virtue without perceiving the taste of its aid, do not marvel; for until a man becomes humble, he will not receive a reward for his labor. Recompense is given, not for labor, but for humility.

Isaac Watts

When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride.

Irving Babbitt

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.