Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Murray

Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil.

Andrew Murray

Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.

Andrew Murray

Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.

Ann Landers

Maturity is humility. It is being big enough to say, "I was wrong." And, when he/she is right, the mature person need not experience the satisfaction of saying, "I told you so."

Aesop

Good things come in small packages.

Jane Austen

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no vice, of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excited so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbors, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor [can] humility mitigate.

Bruce Lee

Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation.

Bruce Lee

Each moment that passes changes you...You can't even own yourself. How can you ever hope to own anyone or anything else.

Brother Lawrence

I did not pray for any relief, but I prayed for strength to suffer with courage, humility and love.

Brother Lawrence

Do not always scrupulously confine yourself to certain rules, or particular forms of devotion, but act with a general confidence in GOD, with love and humility.

Brother Lawrence

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

Edmund Burke

Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.

Bill Johnson

In my own pursuit of God, I often became preoccupied with ME! It was easy to think that being constantly aware of my faults and weakness was humility. It’s not! If I’m the main subject, talking incessantly about my weaknesses, I have entered into the most subtle form of pride.

Bill Johnson

True humility is not in the absence of confidence but strength restrained.

Edward Hopper

There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.

David Hume

Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.

David Duchovny

Humility is considered an un-masculine quality.

Ben Utecht

The greatest things I have learned from Coach Dungy would have to be humility and consistency. He truly leads by example, and he does it consistently. This allows people to really see his faith every single day, and that's the most important thing.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.

Benjamin Franklin

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

Benjamin Franklin

Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.

Benjamin Franklin

Humility makes great men twice honorable

Benjamin Franklin

My List of Virtues contain'd at first but twelve: But a Quaker Friend having kindly inform'd me that I was generally thought proud; that my Pride show'd itself frequently in Conversation; that I was not content with being in the right when discussing any Point, but was overbearing & rather insolent; of which he convinc'd me by mentioning several Instances; - I determined endeavouring to cure myself ..., and I added Humility to my List, giving an extensive Meaning to the Word.

Benjamin Franklin

E'er you remark another's sin, bid your own conscience look within.

Benjamin Franklin

I've striven my whole life for humility, but if I'd ever achieved it, I'd probably be pretty damn proud of that.

Arthur C. Clarke

Astronomy, as nothing else can do, teaches men humility.

Anton Chekhov

The world is a fine place. The only thing wrong with it is us. How little justice and humility there is in us, how poorly we understand patriotism!

Aung San Suu Kyi

As we strive to teach others we must have the humility to acknowledge that we too still have much to learn.

Dean Koontz

Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility. Each of us is a potential source of foolishness, each of us must endure the consequences of the foolishness of others, and in addition to all of that, Nature frequently works to impress upon us our absurdity and thereby remind us that we are not the masters of the universe that we like to suppose we are. - Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 62 chapter 8

Dean Koontz

Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses.

Elizabeth Taylor

Humility, never me; it is a characteristic I expect to find in other people.

Bayard Taylor

Love's humility is love's true pride.