Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Macdonald

Humility is losing yourself in the doing of serving.

Ellen G. White

The life of Christ was a life charged with a divine message of the love of God, and He longed intensely to impart this love to others in rich measure. Compassion beamed from His countenance, and His conduct was characterized by grace, humility, truth, and love. Every member of His church militant must manifest the same qualities, if he would join the church triumphant.

Emily Carr

I can rise above the humility of my failure with an intense desire to search deeper and a blind faith that some day my sight may pierce through the veils that hide. I know God's face is there if I keep my gaze steady enough.

Hermann Hesse

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.

Henri Nouwen

Community is where humility and glory touch.

Henry Rollins

I warn people, your 40s will require massive amounts of humor and humility.

Henry Ward Beecher

Some people are proud of their humility.

Henry Ward Beecher

Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Humility with energy is often mistaken for pride.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.

Khaled Hosseini

I may not agree with all or even most of the tribal traditions, but it seems ti me that, out there, people live more authentic lives. They have a sturdiness about them. A refreshing humility. Hospitality too. And resilience. A sense of pride.

Narendra Modi

In democracy, people's verdict is always final and we all have to accept it with humility.

Norman Mailer

I don't trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you're half evil, nothing soothes you more than to think the person you are opposed to is totally evil.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

Merle Shain

Our times are obsessed with finding fulfillment, so there are times when some people try too hard, and there are people who want to have the newest feelings just as there are those who want to have the latest model car. You can't play at love any more than you can be proud of your humility, or add water to your perfume and have it smell the same, but men and women both have been known to try.

Marvin Olasky

Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.

Michael J. Fox

Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them.

Ted Turner

If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.

Theodore Roethke

The self says, I am; The heart says, I am less; The spirit says, you are Nothing.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is impossible without humility.

John Adams

Elections, especially of representatives and counselors, should be annual, there not being in the whole circle of the sciences a maxim more infallible than this, "where annual elections end, there slavery begins." These great men ... should be (chosen) once a year-Like bubbles on the sea of matter bourne, they rise, they break, and to the sea return. This will teach them the great political virtues of humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey.

John Adams

Where annual elections end, there slavery begins ... Humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey.

John Roberts

the humility to recognize that they operate within a system of precedent.

Jim Yong Kim

One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.

Eric Ludy

Humility is measured by how quickly you can admit that you are wrong.

Eric Ludy

The fire to pursue God, the zeal to know God, and the humility to allow God to do whatever He pleases with our lives.

John Heywood

Cut your coat according to your cloth.

Humility reminds you that in order to receive value, you must create value in equal measure.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Everything is gestation and bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the dark, in the inexpressible, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one's own intelligence, and await with deep humility and patience the birth-hour of a new clarity: that alone is living the artist's life.

Serena Williams

I never left my roots. You can identify me as someone that didn't become high and mighty. Humility is a defining [trait] all of us can forever learn, and I try to be as humble as anyone can be.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

If the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.

John Muir

We all travel the milky way together, trees and men; but it never occurred to me until this storm-day, while swinging in the wind, that trees are travelers in the ordinary sense. They make many journeys, not extensive ones, it is true; but our own little journeys, away and back again, are only little more than tree-wavings - many of them not so much.