Quotes about humility
humility eye men
God, give me a deep humility, a well-guided zeal, a burning love and a single eye, and then let men or devils do their worst! George Whitefield
humility thinking people
I think people who lack humility are really annoying. Emily VanCamp
humility mind important
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. Jasper Fforde
humility men fishing
Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man. Herbert Hoover
humility long simplicity
A taste for simplicity cannot last for long. Eugene Delacroix
humility may lists
No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience. Ernest Hemingway
humility loss pride
Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.
humility writing crafts
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
humility learning essence
Learning is the very essence of humility . . . Jiddu Krishnamurti
humility may judgment
May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples. Ignatius of Loyola
humility giving grace
There is no doubt that God will never be wanting to us, provided that He finds in us that humility which makes us worthy of His gifts, the desire of possessing them, and the promptitude to co-operate industriously with the graces He gives us.
humility looks remember
Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.
humility heart pride
How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion. Hosea Ballou
humility men bows
The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.
humility sacrifice compassion
Every truth ever discovered -- each new light that will ever burn bright -- already exists in our consciousness. All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice -- the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows -- awaits us within ourselves. Hidden in this truth is our great promise, both as individuals and as a race of beings. Guy Finley
humility wish existentialism
He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted. Friedrich Nietzsche
humility want exalted
He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.
humility church teach
The churches must learn humility as well as teach it. George Bernard Shaw
humility tough bragging
The really tough thing about humility is you can't brag about it.
humility men engineering
One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps the most intricate and complex of man's handiworks. The management of this complex craft will demand our best use of new languages and systems, our best adaptation of proven engineering management methods, liberal doses of common sense, and a God-given humility to recognize our fallibility and limitations. Fred Brooks
humility men solitude
Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man. Franz Kafka
humility proud would-be
Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I were.
humility fools-day aggravation
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded. George Orwell
humility intellectual intellectual-humility
The indispensible judicial requisite is intellectual humility. Felix Frankfurter
humility pride blessing
With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings. Ezra Taft Benson
humility son winning
Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best. Euripides
humility virtue reason
Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason. Francis Quarles
humility men giving
Let us also love our neighbors as ourselves. Let us have charity and humility. Let us give alms because these cleanse our souls from the stains of sin. Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve. Francis of Assisi
humility pride sometimes
Sometimes we shrink from leadership because our pride makes us afraid of failure. That's not humility. Francis Chan
humility mirrors understanding
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. Francis Bacon
humility hypocrite transition
In some sense we are all hypocrites in transition. Erwin McManus
humility self way
[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . . Flannery O'Connor
humility humble contentment
True humility is contentment. Henri Frederic Amiel