Quotes about humility
humility humble haughtiness
If one avoids haughtiness to the utmost extent and is exceedingly humble, he is termed a saint, and this is the standard of saintliness. Maimonides
humility pride analogies
About humility we speak with an analogy: When the branches are full of fruit, they just bow down. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
humility unwise wisest
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. Mahatma Gandhi
humility selfishness egotism
Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.
humility littles firsts
The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness.
humility mean fields
Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means.
humility play people
Those times when I play on stage in front of lots of people, it's such an unusual and borderline unhealthy process, even though I love it and I really do it with humility. I don't have serfs getting me grapes after, or things like that. Gavin Rossdale
humility greatness style
All greatness in style begins, I imagine, with such respect, deep and passionate enough to produce a humility which will not assert itself at the expense even of inanimate things: out of which submissiveness a desire to serve is born, in disinterested accuracy toward the object, whatever it may be. Freya Stark
humility humble giving
We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.
humility hard-work men
What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which made him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether. Gilbert K. Chesterton
humility men judging
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. Hermann Hesse
humility community glory
Community is where humility and glory touch. Henri Nouwen
humility people amount
I warn people, your 40s will require massive amounts of humor and humility. Henry Rollins
humility pride people
Some people are proud of their humility. Henry Ward Beecher
humility true-humility servility
Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.
humility passion atheism
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. Joyce Carol Oates
humility people littles
I make these little films. I'm just a working person. I just study people a little bit more. It's more sociological, and it's funny anyway - not that serious. It's not like false humility. I just take it for what it is. Julie Delpy
humility fruits-of-the-spirit may
Humility may well be one of the most difficult of the fruit of the Spirit to be cultivated in us - and to maintain. That's because without humility, it's not likely that you will put your complete trust in God. Joyce Meyer
humility eye men
If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own eyes; forgive thyself little, and others much. Leighton Meester
humility mirrors study
Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life. Lauren Bacall
humility pride feet
Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.
humility men long
So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I am especially proud of those parts of it that are most commonly called superstition. I am proud of being fettered by antiquated dogmas and enslaved by dead creeds (as my journalistic friends repeat with so much pertinacity), for I know very well that it is the heretical creeds that are dead, and that it is only the reasonable dogma that lives long enough to be called antiquated.
humility virtue prime
Humility and resignation are our prime virtues. John Dryden
humility pride energy
Humility with energy is often mistaken for pride. Johann Kaspar Lavater
humility thinking doe
One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
humility suffering-and-death religion
True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.
humility helping-others compassion
What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love...They're the guiding lights of a life. Jimmy Carter
humility done smallest
The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always great when they are done for God. Francois Fenelon
humility essentials lowliness
The most essential point is lowliness.
humility thinking easily-offended
There is no true and constant gentleness without humility. While we are so fond of ourselves, we are easily offended with others. Let us be persuaded that nothing is due to us, and then nothing will disturb us. Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we will become indulgent towards those of others.
humility soul quiet
How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.
humility disease architecture
I feel coming on a strange disease - humility. Frank Lloyd Wright
humility men design
Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance. Francois Truffaut