Quotes about humility
humility humble haughtiness
If one avoids haughtiness to the utmost extent and is exceedingly humble, he is termed a saint, and this is the standard of saintliness. Maimonides
humility pride analogies
About humility we speak with an analogy: When the branches are full of fruit, they just bow down. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
humility unwise wisest
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. Mahatma Gandhi
humility selfishness egotism
Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.
humility littles firsts
The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness.
humility mean fields
Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means.
humility play people
Those times when I play on stage in front of lots of people, it's such an unusual and borderline unhealthy process, even though I love it and I really do it with humility. I don't have serfs getting me grapes after, or things like that. Gavin Rossdale
humility greatness style
All greatness in style begins, I imagine, with such respect, deep and passionate enough to produce a humility which will not assert itself at the expense even of inanimate things: out of which submissiveness a desire to serve is born, in disinterested accuracy toward the object, whatever it may be. Freya Stark
humility humble giving
We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.
humility men thinking
I don't trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you're half evil, nothing soothes you more than to think the person you are opposed to is totally evil. Norman Mailer
humility men doubt
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
humility compassion grace
The life of Christ was a life charged with a divine message of the love of God, and He longed intensely to impart this love to others in rich measure. Compassion beamed from His countenance, and His conduct was characterized by grace, humility, truth, and love. Every member of His church militant must manifest the same qualities, if he would join the church triumphant. Ellen G. White
humility sight desire
I can rise above the humility of my failure with an intense desire to search deeper and a blind faith that some day my sight may pierce through the veils that hide. I know God's face is there if I keep my gaze steady enough. Emily Carr
humility community glory
Community is where humility and glory touch. Henri Nouwen
humility people amount
I warn people, your 40s will require massive amounts of humor and humility. Henry Rollins
humility pride people
Some people are proud of their humility. Henry Ward Beecher
humility true-humility servility
Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.
humility pride energy
Humility with energy is often mistaken for pride. Johann Kaspar Lavater
humility thinking doe
One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
humility suffering-and-death religion
True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.
humility important kind
One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached. Jim Yong Kim
humility
Humility is measured by how quickly you can admit that you are wrong. Eric Ludy
humility fire please
The fire to pursue God, the zeal to know God, and the humility to allow God to do whatever He pleases with our lives.
humility cutting coats
Cut your coat according to your cloth. John Heywood
humility gains virtue
Value is that which one acts to gain and/or keep. Virtue is the act by which one aims and/or keeps it. Ayn Rand
humility math world
Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover. Bertrand Russell
humility men people
Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.
humility hands example
With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples. Benjamin Cardozo
humility way sin
If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. ... How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own? Dietrich Bonhoeffer
humility mercy understand
You must understand in all humility that you are at the mercy of the weather,
humility proud
They are proud in humility, proud that they are not proud. Robert Burton
humility proud
They are proud in humility; proud in that they are not proud
humility order justice
[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. Gretchen Rubin