Beckett was the most thorough of playwrights. He tells you what to do and if you've any humility at all, you'll take… — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration, and ignoble deaths. — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
A poor but humble man who gives nothing to charity is preferrable to a rich but haughty man who does. — Nachman of Breslov Copy Share Image
Humility comes from understanding that the obstacles in front of you are not going to go away. — Sarah Ferguson Copy Share Image
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Humility is the softening shadow before the stature of Excellence, And lieth lowly on the ground, beloved and lovely as the violet. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
By humility, out of an enemy He has made a friend, which is more than to have created a new earth. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost. ...Each human soul has in… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Be not too great a niggard in the commendations of him that professes thy own quality: if he deserve thy praise, thou… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Humility does not live in the prison of illusion that says that this world is a dark and terrible place. Those perceptions… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The lack of humility in today’s culture is in part what blinds us to our desperate need to seek God daily in… — Stephen Kendrick Copy Share Image
“I've learned that humility is not such a bad thing, and that strength can be found through submission. I've learned that I… — Belinda McBride Copy Share Image
When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked… — James Balog Copy Share Image
May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... But as a Godless greed pursued its career from excess to excess, it provoked a sort of twin hostile brother, equally… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your… — William Temple Copy Share Image
For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It's great advice - to open your eyes, have a little humility, and let go of ego. I think that instills in… — Polly Allen Mellen Copy Share Image
“In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride. Disguise it, struggle with it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
And what kind of habitation pleases God? What must our natures be like before he can feel at home within us? He… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Go to your confessor; open your heart to him; display to him all the recesses of your soul; take the advice that… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Walking uplifts the spirit. Breathe out the poisons of tension, stress, and worry; breathe in the power of God. Send forth little… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility. — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
“It was enough. Enough of the pretending and the meekness. Enough of Cain.” — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“Just remember, when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do.” — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Ever doubt that God answers your prayers? Pray (sincerely) for humility... and watch what happens. — Mark Hart Copy Share Image
“True humility, we believe, consists of two things. The first is knowing our limitations. And the second is getting the help we… — Robert L. Moore Copy Share Image
Fasting humbles you and brings clarity, even allowing you to get unforgiveness and bitterness out of your heart. — Jentezen Franklin Copy Share Image
sooner or later the universe usually provides lessons of humility to those who need it the most. — Cherie Carter-Scott Copy Share Image
We don't have to become big scholars, we don't have to become big supermen. We simply have to become a humble servant… — Bhakti Charu Swami Copy Share Image
Love, patience, and meekness can be just as contagious as rudeness and crudeness. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
God descends to the humble as waters flow down from the hills into the valleys. — Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow Copy Share Image
Not a superman who stumbles, but an ape with makeshift manners in whose nickel-plated jungles roam mechanical bananas. — William Tenn Copy Share Image
We need modesty not only in the way we dress; we need intellectual modesty. — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate. — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
