Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tucker Max

The hardest lesson I've had to learn in my life is that my intelligence is inversely correlated to my humility. The more I thought I knew, the less I actually knew.

Stephen Mitchell

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

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.

Thomas a Kempis

If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity and faith, and seek not at any time the fame of being learned.

Thomas a Kempis

Study to do another's will rather than thine own. Choose ever to have less rather than more. Seek ever the lower place and to be subject to all; ever wish and pray that the will of God may be perfectly done in thee and in all. Behold such a man enters the bounds of peace and calm.

Thomas a Kempis

It is better to have but little knowledge with humility and understanding, than great learning which might make you proud. For a person's merits are not to be estimated by having many visions, or by knowledge of the bible, or by being placed in a higher position; but by being grounded in true humility, and by seeking always, purely, and entirely, the honor of God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our best thoughts come from others.

Suzy Kassem

Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.

Suzy Kassem

A good man will never harm or oppress another. A good man will share his last morsel of food with others in need, and die of hunger when he no longer has any food -- instead of cheat or steal from others to survive. Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.

Thomas Brooks

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

Thomas Watson, Jr.

Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed.

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.

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.

Rupert Graves

Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you.

Rumi

Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.

Rumi

A lover knows only humility, he has no choice. He steals into your alley at night, he has no choice. He longs to kiss every lock of your hair, don't fret, he has no choice. In his frenzied love for you, he longs to break the chains of his imprisonment, he has no choice.

Rumi

Join the community of saints and know the delight of your own Soul. Enter the ruins of your Heart and Learn the Meaning of Humility.

Stephen Covey

It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.

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

Steven Yeun

Maybe it's a cultural thing, being Korean, but my first reflex has always been to exude humility - but it doesn't help you in acting. For acting, humility isn't the best thing. It'll weaken your work.

Tariq Ramadan

In sha Allah, God willing, must be the expression of humility of the active actors and it must never be the justification of the passive observers

Tariq Ramadan

It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.

Tariq Ramadan

Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.