Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Hoffer

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

Eric Hoffer

Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.

Eric Hoffer

Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.

James Balog

When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.

James Balog

I have often thought that my work with wildlife taught me the meaning of patience, and my work with the big trees taught me the meaning of humility, and my work with the ice has taught me the meaning of mortality.

Friedrich Schiller

Modest humility is beauty's crown.

Luis Federico Leloir

I might paraphrase Churchill and say: never have I received so much for so little.

Luc de Clapiers

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

Luc de Clapiers

We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves...

Lord Chesterfield

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

John Buchan

Without humility there can be no humanity.

John Bevere

Godly fear, faith, and humility is the true threefold cord that can’t easily be broken (see Ecclesiastes 4:12).

John Bevere

True humility is absolute obedience and dependence on God. It puts Him first, others second, and ourselves third in all things.

Robert Kiyosaki

Humility is the first step towards learning. You can’t learn until you are humble enough to realize there is something for you to learn.

Stephen Mitchell

But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.

Ray McKinnon

There's not a conspiracy to prevent really good writing from being found You have to have the humility to fail over and over and over.

Ron Fournier

Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him.

Ron Fournier

A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics.

Starhawk

Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.

Stanley Hauerwas

Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love.

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.

William Shenstone

Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness.

William Faulkner

He made the earth first and peopled it with dumb creatures, and then He created man to be His overseer on the earth and to hold suzerainty over the earth and the animals on it in His name, not to hold for himself and his descendants inviolable title forever, generation after generation, to the oblongs and squares of the earth, but to hold the earth mutual and intact in the communal anonymity of brotherhood, and all the fee He asked was pity and humility and sufferance and endurance and the sweat of has face for bread.

Saint Augustine

...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

Saint Augustine

Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.

Saint Augustine

There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.

Saint Augustine

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

Saint Augustine

You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation.

Saint Augustine

If you should ask me what are the ways of God, I would tell you that the first is humility, the second is humility, and the third is humility. Not that there are no other precepts to give, but if humility does not preceed all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

Saint Francis de Sales

The highest point of humility consists in not merely acknowledging one's abjection, but in taking pleasure therein, not from any want of breadth or courage, but to give the more glory to God's Divine Majesty, and to esteem one's neighbour more highly than one's self.

Saint Francis de Sales

If after all your efforts you cannot succeed, you could not please our Lord more than by sacrificing to Him your will, and remaining in tranquility, humility, and devotion, entirely conformed and submissive to His divine will and good pleasure.

Saint Francis de Sales

Humility consists in not esteeming ourselves above other men, and in not seeking to be esteemed above them.

Saint Francis de Sales

Humility makes our lives acceptable to God, meekness makes us acceptable to men.