Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Henry David Thoreau

I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.

Henry David Thoreau

Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

Jill Scott

One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't realise how often you're disrespected until you are surrounded by respect.

Ernest Hemingway

No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.

Ernest Hemingway

Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.

Ernest Hemingway

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Erwin McManus

In some sense we are all hypocrites in transition.

Flannery O'Connor

[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .

Henri Frederic Amiel

True humility is contentment.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them.

Harold Nicolson

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

Irena Sendler

The world can be better if there's love, tolerance and humility.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility is the worst form of conceit.

Jean-Paul Sartre

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.

George Whitefield

God, give me a deep humility, a well-guided zeal, a burning love and a single eye, and then let men or devils do their worst!

James C. Collins

The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.

James C. Collins

The x factor of a great leader is humility combined with will.

Jackie Gleason

I have no use for humility. I am a fellow with an exceptional talent.

Jackie Mason

By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?

Gary Snyder

Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility.

Gary Vaynerchuk

I have as big of an ego as it gets, but I have, stunningly, a lot of humility considering some of the accomplishments I've had.

Fulton J. Sheen

Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.

Francois Rabelais

All things have their ends and cycles. And when they have reached their highest point, they are in their lowest ruin, for they cannot last for long in such a state. Such is the end for those who cannot moderate their fortune and prosperity with reason and temperance.

Francois Rabelais

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror

Christopher Hitchens

The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.

Francis Bacon

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.