Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Richardson

The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility.

Samuel Richardson

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

Rudolf Steiner

Heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility.

W. S. Gilbert

Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.

William Cowper

True modesty is a discerning grace And only blushes in the proper place; But counterfeit is blind, and skulks through fear, Where 'tis a shame to be asham'd t' appear: Humility the parent of the first, The last by vanity produc'd and nurs'd.

Ursula K. Le Guin

What you select from, in order to tell your story, is nothing less than everything. What you build up your world from, your local, intelligible rational, coherent world, is nothing less than everything. . . . . All human knowledge is local. Every life, each human life is local, is arbitrary, the infinitesimal momentary glitter of a reflection.

William Gurnall

Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.

William Arthur Ward

To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness.

Washington Allston

Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open.

Tim Tebow

So much of how we act and what we do is based on humility or pride - that's everything. And when you can humble yourself, you know, we are more like Christ when we can humble ourselves.

Thomas Keating

The complementary movement towards divine love is growth in humility which is the acceptence of the reality about ourselves, our own weakness and limitations.

Thomas Keating

Humility is the forgetfulness of self.

Thomas Brooks

Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.

Thomas Brooks

Faith is the champion of Grace, and Love the nurse; but Humility is the beauty of Grace.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Yet as human beings we have to accept-with humility-that the question of ultimate origins will always remain with us, no matter how deeply we understand the brain and the cosmos that it creates.

Gretchen Rubin

[Benjamin Franklin]identified thirteen virtues he wanted to cultivate--temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity and humility--and made a chart with those virtues plotted against the days of the week. Each day, Franklin would score himself on whether he practiced those thirteen virtues.

Gordon B. Hinckley

God will bless us if we walk in humility.

Georges St-Pierre

I bow to my opponent in praise and thanks. After the fight is a time for humility, acceptance and analysis, no matter the result.

Herbert V. Prochnow

If you would like to live in a community in which you may have pride, then dedicate yourself in a spirit of humility and your responsibilities in that community.

Henry David Thoreau

I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.

Henry David Thoreau

Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

Jill Scott

One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't realise how often you're disrespected until you are surrounded by respect.

James C. Collins

The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.

James C. Collins

The x factor of a great leader is humility combined with will.

Jackie Gleason

I have no use for humility. I am a fellow with an exceptional talent.

Jackie Mason

By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?

Gary Snyder

Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility.

Gary Vaynerchuk

I have as big of an ego as it gets, but I have, stunningly, a lot of humility considering some of the accomplishments I've had.

Fulton J. Sheen

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.

Frantz Fanon

I feel my soul as vast as the world, truly a soul as deep as the deepest of rivers; my chest has the power to expand to infinity. I was made to give and they prescribe for me the humility of the cripple.

Franz Grillparzer

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

Jeremy Taylor

It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.

Jean-Paul Sartre

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.