Humility Quotes · Page 70

Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.

— Pope John XXIII

If you aim for only wealth, beauty, fame, & power, you aim too low. Humility, gentleness, gratitude, & service is aiming high.

— LeCrae

Being humble doesnt mean allowing yourself to get stepped on like a door-mat. Being humble means taking every negativity positively.

— Collins Hasty

Be humble but always remember your worth and be confident enough to defend it, always.

— Terry Mark

A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy.

— Thomas Brooks

Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.

— Simon Sinek

“Gratitude is the heart of humility, and humility is the path to peace, love, and understanding.”

— Justin Young

Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.

— H. P. Blavatsky

You say the character [of Leo Bloom] was meek and insecure, and you could've been describing me as well. I was a…

— Gene Wilder

The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to…

— Thomas Huxley

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest…

— Ralph W Sockman

“that humility has taken up its abode in us; and become our very nature; that we actually, like Christ, have made ourselves…

— Andrew Murray

“Management" of anything as complicated as a woods requires more humility than comes easily to our species, at least in its American…

— Bill McKibben

I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some…

— Walter Isaacson

[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other…

— Flannery O'Connor

I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed, because its not…

— Quincy Jones

I see a world in the future in which we understand that all life is related to us and we treat that…

— David Suzuki

“But the Egotist is stuck somewhere between his hidden triad of pride, fear, and insecurity; he is forever fighting to prove himself,…

— Criss Jami

Good work is no done by "humble" men. It is one of the first duties of a professor, for example, in any…

— G. H. Hardy

Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in the Lord. Through humility, some…

— Saint Bernard

Without modesty, woman is devoid of beauty and culture. Humility, purity of thought and manners, meekness, surrender to high ideals, sensitivity, sweetness…

— Sathya Sai Baba

Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall. The ground is where humility lives. Take it. Learn…

— Yasmin Mogahed

Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

An authentically empowered person is humble. This does not mean the false humility of one who stoops to be with those who…

— Gary Zukav

I'm not trying to be modest of self-deprecating or in any way trying to do that.

— Jon Stewart

Skepticism is forever whispering in your ears. You're very new at this. You may be mistaken. You've been wrong before.

— D. J. Grothe

Prayer needs no speech. It is in itself independent of any sensuous effort. But it must be combined with the utmost humility.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Some instances in life call for humility. But, sometimes you need to be flat-out brazen when it comes to the desires of…

— Nakia R. Laushaul

“You should have little something in your heart for everyone out there.”

— Pratik Akkawar

Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.

— Vanna Bonta

Humility is not about having a low self-image or poor self-esteem. Humility is about self-awareness.

— Erwin McManus

Humility has tremendous power. Think of Gandhi. That was humility in action. He changed the shape of an entire nation.

— Frederick Lenz

Accepting responsibility for problems that you didn't cause is a reflection of true humility.

— Anonymous

To eat meat is just a habit after we were born. In fact, we are not born to eat meat.

— Gautama Buddha

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

— C. S. Lewis

“I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that…

— Richard Rohr

The meek shall inherit the earth. They won't have the nerve to refuse it.

— Jackie Vernon

Blessed the man and woman who is able to serve cheerfully in the second rank - a big test.

— Mary Slessor

“I overreacted to praise, signing an autograph. I'd write a check to buy it back.”

— Brian Spellman

But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.

— Stephen Mitchell