Famous Quotes & Sayings

Max Beerbohm

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

Max Beerbohm

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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.

Jonathan Edwards

All the graces of Christianity always go together. They so go together that where there is one, there are all, and where one is wanting, all are wanting. Where there is faith, there are love, and hope, and humility; and where there is love, there is also trust; and where there is a holy trust in God, there is love to God; and where there is a gracious hope, there also is a holy fear of God.

Jonathan Edwards

We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.

Jonathan Edwards

The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.

Jonas Salk

[Who owns the patent on this vaccine?] Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?

Joyce Carol Oates

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

Julie Delpy

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.

Richard Baxter

I did nothing that I might not have done better.

Richard Baxter

Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should be proud ourselves!

Saint Augustine

The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

Tryon Edwards

True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

Richard Curtis

We project our ideas about ourselves into the heavens and call them ideas about God.

Rick Warren

Humility is not denying your strengths, humility is being honest about your weaknesses.

Rick Warren

We take ourselves way too seriously, and we don't take God seriously enough. It is not by accident that humor and humility come from the same root word. If you can laugh at yourself, you'll always have plenty of good material.

Meher Baba

One of the most difficult things to learn is to render service without bossing, without making a fuss about it, and without any consciousness of high and low. In the world of spirituality, humility counts at least as much as utility.

By humility, out of an enemy He has made a friend, which is more than to have created a new earth.

Mary Oliver

In the glare of your mind, be modest. And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling.

Martin Buber

God made so many different kinds of people; why would God allow only one way to worship?

Martin Buber

There is no room for God in him who is full of himself.

Pope Benedict XVI

Hope is practiced through the virtue of patience, which continues to do good even in the face of apparent failure, and through the virtue of humility, which accepts God's mystery and trusts him even at times of darkness.

Pope Benedict XVI

The story of Mary of Magdalene reminds us all of a fundamental truth...A disciple of Christ is one who, in the experience of human weakness, has had the humility to ask for his help, has been healed by him and has set out following closely after him, becoming a witness of the power of his merciful love that is stronger than sin and death.

Pope John Paul II

Do not be afraid to be holy! Have the courage and humility to present yourselves to the world determined to be holy, since full, true freedom is born from holiness.

Pindar

Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.

Pope Francis

You can't govern without loving the people and without humility!

Pope Francis

How many young people among you are like this? You know how to give and yet you have ever learned how to receive. You still lack one thing. Become a beggar. This is what you still lack. Learn how to beg. This isn’t easy to understand. To learn how to beg. To learn how to receive with humility.

Pope Francis

If there is no humility, love remains blocked.

Pope Francis

Humility saves man: pride makes him lose his way.

Pope Francis

The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love.

Pope Francis

Let us contemplate the humility of the Son of God born into poverty. Let us imitate him by sharing with those who are weak.

Paulo Coelho

If you accept such love with purity and humility, you will understand that Love is neither giving nor receiving -it is participating.

Rachel Carson

I still feel there is a case to be made for my old belief that as man approaches the 'new heaven and the new earth' -- or the space-age universe, if you will, he must do so with humility rather than with arrogance.