Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

Shania Twain

Now that I have and I'm not a have-not, I've learned how important it is to maintain humility.

Sheldon Whitehouse

How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean up our mess? Hope for a nanny God, who will with a miracle grant us amnesty from our folly - thats not aligned with either history or the text of the Bible.

Pearl S. Buck

At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.

Peter V. Brett

There's other ways to protect yourself and your family, Arlen. Wisdom. Prudence. Humility. It's not brave to fight a battle you can't win.

Peter Kreeft

Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell.

Peter Kreeft

Humility, humility, humility, and humility.

Peter Kreeft

Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.

Phyllis Diller

You know what keeps me humble? Mirrors!

Thomas Merton

A humble man is not afraid of failure. In fact, he is not afraid of anything, even himself, since perfect humility implies perfect confidence in the power of God.

Thomas Merton

Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right.

Thomas Merton

It is not humility to insist on being someone that you are not. It is as much as saying that you know better than God who you are and who you ought to be. How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city? How do you expect to reach your own perfection by leading somebody else's life? His sanctity will never be yours; you must have the humility to work out your own salvation in a darkness where you are absolutely alone...

Thomas Merton

Humility sets us free to do what is really good, by showing us our illusions and withdrawing our will from what was only an apparent good.

Thomas Merton

One thing is certain: the humility of faith, if it is followed by the proper consequences-by the acceptance of the work and sacrifice demanded by our providential task-will do far more to launch us into the full current of historical reality than the pompous rationalizations of politicians who think they are somehow the directors and manipulators of history.

Thomas Merton

Humility is the surest sign of strength.

Thomas Carlyle

Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.

Tony Dungy

False modesty is an attempt to tear yourself down. True humility focuses more on build up others.

Tony Dungy

We are all important, but we are not indispensable.

Steven Erikson

We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again." ~Fiddler, pg. 558

Leo Hindery

A great leader needs to love and respect people, and he needs to be comfortable with himself and with the world. He also needs to be able to forgive himself and others. In other words, a leader needs grace.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

When ideas become gods, consciousness of harmony becomes devotion, humility, and hope.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Original love never appears in pure form, but in manifold veils and shapes, such as confidence, humility, reverence, serenity, asfaithfulness and modesty, as gratefulness; but primarily as longing and wistful melancholy.

Abraham teaches us the right way of conversing with God : "And Abraham fell on his face, and God talked with him." When we plead with Him, our faces should be in the dust.

What is childlike humility? It’s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda.

Simone Weil

There is nothing that comes closer to true humility than the intelligence. It is impossible to feel pride in one's intelligence at the moment when one really and truly exercises it.

Simone Weil

Humility consists of knowing that in this world the whole soul , not only what we term the ego in its totality, but also the supernatural part of the soul, which is God present in it, is subject to time and to the vicissitudes of change . There must be absolutely acceptance of the possibility that everything material in us should be destroyed. But we must simultaneously accept and repudiate the possibility that the supernatural part of the soul should disappear.

Simone Weil

One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

Simone Weil

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Simone Weil

Compassion directed to oneself is humility.

Simone Weil

Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

Simon Sinek

Great leaders don't need to act tough. Their confidence and humility serve to underscore their toughness.

Thomas Brooks

Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.