Humility Quotes · Page 85

Don't become consumed in figuring who is right.. all that matters is figuring what is right. Anything else is menial.

— Kenneth W Griffin

Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Let us be humble and keep ourselves down: - Obedience! Humility! Detachment!

— Philip Neri

Humility is the most important quality in the spiritual life. When it is lacking spiritual growth stops.

— Frederick Lenz

You must always strive to be the best, but you must never believe that you are.

— Juan Manuel Fangio

May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility.

— Leigh Hunt

There's not a conspiracy to prevent really good writing from being found You have to have the humility to fail over and…

— Ray McKinnon

If you are really humble you will put yourself first when you need to take care of you.

— Anonymous

“As on enquiring agnostic one seeks, not the smugness of atheism, not the blindness of idolatry - nor even the complacency of…

— Andrew Ashdown

So many of us, myself included, need to keep our sense of personal outrage in check. Each human beings position on the…

— Ani DiFranco

Practice humility constantly. Whenever you start to think well of yourself, push those thoughts aside. Whenever you think ill of yourself, push…

— Frederick Lenz

When one gets beaten by somebody better, one has to know how to lose with humility. Sure, I could have served better.…

— Rafael Nadal

Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Ordinarily, God allows these things [i.e. evil suggestions and wickedness] to happen to free us from some hidden pride and to engender…

— Vincent de Paul

“Haven't you ever heard that modesty is an attractive trait?" "Only from ugly people," Jace confided. "The meek may inherit the earth,…

— Cassandra Clare

... the belief in a superstratum of human beings ... is the most evil of all beliefs. For when you say, 'I…

— Agatha Christie

“The best and noblest parts of man depend precious little on culture, education, and whatever else it is called. One can never…

— Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted…

— Mother Teresa

Let me follow in Thy footsteps, O Jesus ! I would imitate Thee, but cannot without the aid of Thy grace! O…

— Francois Fenelon

I have a supermarket full of ideas and the challenge is how many ideas can I get in my cart before I'm…

— George Lucas

Nature is not something to be fought, conquered and changed according to any human whims. To some extent, of course, it has…

— Richard M. Weaver

We may think it humility not to realize that the Lord is bestowing gifts upon us. Let us understand very, very clearly,…

— Teresa of Avila

The Bible is teh means through which we are introduced to Jesus and invited to follow Him in the life of humility…

— Anonymous

If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others,…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right.

— Thomas Merton

“Modesty is good. But take your credit. You can't always count on other people to offer it.”

— Alex Irvine

I tell people all the time... There is humble. And there is humble. And then there is N'Golo.

— Antonio Rudiger

“Loving humility is marvelously strong, the strongest of all things, and there is nothing like it.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Now that I have and I'm not a have-not, I've learned how important it is to maintain humility.

— Shania Twain

“the humblest, and at the same time most balanced and capacious, praised most, while the crank, misfits and malcontents praised least.”

— C.S. Lewis

But certainly, I think that it's important to have humility and to acknowledge that you're learning every day as a leader.

— Annamie Paul

Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.

— Eric Hoffer

Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.

— Lydia Sigourney

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

— Glenda Jackson

I see in Nature a magnificent structure... that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility.

— Albert Einstein

Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Modesty, if you consider it, is the most unforgivable sort of falsehood: it's a lie that does damage to no one but…

— Anonymous

“It hurt to think that a boy would not have him at his value of himself.”

— Richard Llewellyn

“Humility is what you strive for when you've failed at everything else.”

— Stephan Pastis