Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bernard of Clairvaux

Humility is, of all graces , the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.

Bernard of Clairvaux

It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.

Bernard of Clairvaux

The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.

Benjamin Whichcote

Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.

Charlie Sheen

Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.

Charles Koch

Success is one of the worst enemies of success, because success tends to breed complacency and lack of humility.

Bernard Baruch

Never answer a critic, unless he's right.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

C. S. Lewis

And that is enough to raise your thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond belief, learns at last that she has pleased Him whom she was created to please. There will be no room for vanity then. She will be free from the miserable illusion that it is her doing. With no taint of what we should now call self-approval she will most innocently rejoice in the thing that God has made her to be, and the moment which heals her old inferiority complex forever will also drown her pride… Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

In God's economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.

Donald Miller

In exchange for our humility and willingness to accept the charity of God, we are given a kingdom. And a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.

Dalai Lama

When we consider reality itself we quickly become aware of its infinite complexity, and we realize that our habitual perception of it is often inadequate. If this were not so, the concept of deception would be meaningless.

Dalai Lama

If we see pride among people who have no idea about Dharma, it is understandable. However, if afflictive emotions and haughtiness are present among Dharma practitioners, it is great disgrace to practice

J. C. Ryle

The surest mark of true conversion is humility.

J. C. Ryle

We know nothing of humility by nature, for we are all born proud.

J. C. Ryle

Let us watch against pride in every shape - pride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride of our own goodness. Nothing is so likely to keep a person out of heaven, and prevent them from seeing Christ, as pride. So long as we think we are something we shall never be saved. Let us pray for and cultivate humility; let us seek to know ourselves correctly, and to find out our place in the sight of a holy God.

If you practice an excellent virtue without perceiving the taste of its aid, do not marvel; for until a man becomes humble, he will not receive a reward for his labor. Recompense is given, not for labor, but for humility.

Isaac Watts

When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride.

Glenn McGrath

The joy he brings to the millions of his countrymen, the grace with which he handles all the adulation and the expectations and his innate humility - all make for a one-in-a-billion individual.

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.

Thomas Fuller

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Stephen Jay Gould

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

Bill Bradley

I've always said that running for president requires a mixture of humility and confidence,

Kathie Lee Gifford

... humility + humor = humanity.

Kathleen Norris

To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference. While consumer culture speaks only to preferences, treating even whims as needs to be granted (and the sooner the better), monastics sense that this pandering to delusions of self-importance weakens the true self, and diminishes our ability to distinguish desires from needs. It's a price they're not willing to pay.

Karl Marx

The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille

Julia Cameron

The beginner's humility and openness lead to exploration. Exploration leads to accomplishment. All of it begins at the beginning, with the first small and scary step.

Glenda Jackson

To counter-balance the natural humility of motherhood, I garden ... In the garden, more than any place, I really feel successful.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.

Gretchen Rubin

[Benjamin Franklin]identified thirteen virtues he wanted to cultivate--temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity and humility--and made a chart with those virtues plotted against the days of the week. Each day, Franklin would score himself on whether he practiced those thirteen virtues.

Gordon B. Hinckley

God will bless us if we walk in humility.

Georges St-Pierre

I bow to my opponent in praise and thanks. After the fight is a time for humility, acceptance and analysis, no matter the result.

Herbert V. Prochnow

If you would like to live in a community in which you may have pride, then dedicate yourself in a spirit of humility and your responsibilities in that community.