--- title: "5 Humble Humility Quotes by 5 authors" description: "Browse 5 Humble Humility quotes by 5 authors. Discover the best Humble Humility sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b93/randy-alcorn-1180_humble_when-we-become-proud-we-operate-outside_127523.png" --- > [“When we become proud, we operate outside the grace God only gives to the humble. Humility preserves us; pride destroys us.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/randy-alcorn/when-we-become-proud-we-operate-outside-the-grace-god-only-gives-to/) [Randy Alcorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/randy-alcorn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b93/randy-alcorn-1180_humble_when-we-become-proud-we-operate-outside_127523.png) > [“Humility is a virtue that is enjoined upon us. So far as the artist is concerned, with good reason; indeed, when he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/humility-is-a-virtue-that-is-enjoined-upon-us-so-far-as-the-artist-is/) [W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cac/w-somerset-maugham-237_art_humility-is-a-virtue-that-is-enjoined-up_1978144.jpg) > [God calls us to be humble... Humility is a great defense against humiliation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rev-run-2/god-calls-us-to-be-humble-humility-is-a-great-defense-against/) [Rev Run](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rev-run-2/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/95e/rev-run-2-9027_defense_god-calls-us-to-be-humble-humility-is-a_2185519.jpg) > [“When one takes into account also His reiterated assertions about His Divinity - such as asking us to love Him above parents,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fulton-j-sheen/when-one-takes-into-account-also-his-reiterated-assertions-about-his/) [Fulton J. Sheen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fulton-j-sheen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ac/fulton-j-sheen-675_christ_when-one-takes-into-account-also-his-rei_2297586.png) > [The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble. It's the same humility that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-j-fox/the-way-life-runs-through-everything-even-the-tiniest-elements-of/) [Michael J. Fox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-j-fox/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6e/michael-j-fox-1653_causes_the-way-life-runs-through-everything-eve_2744712.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/humble-humility/#itemlist", "name": "Humble Humility Quotes", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“When we become proud, we operate outside the grace God only gives to the humble. 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Humility preserves us…” — Randy Alcorn", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Humility is a virtue that is enjoined upon us. So far as the artist is concerned, with good reason; indeed, when he compares what he has done with what he wanted to do, when he compares his disappointing efforts with the great masterpieces of the world, he finds it the easiest of virtues to practice. Unless he is humble he cannot hope to improve. Self-satisfaction is fatal to him. The strange thing is that we are embarrassed by humility in others. We are ill at ease when they humble themselves before us. I don't know why this should be unless it is that there is something servile in it which offends our sense of human dignity. When I was engaging two coloured maids to look after me the overseer of the plantation who produced them, as a final recommendation, said: 'They're good niggers, they're humble.' Sometimes when one of them hides her face with her fingers to speak to me or with a little nervous giggle asks if she can have something I've thrown away, I'm inclined to cry: 'For heaven's sake don't be so humble.' Or is it that humility in others forces upon us the consciousness of our own unworthiness?”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "W. Somerset Maugham" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/humility-is-a-virtue-that-is-enjoined-upon-us-so-far-as-the-artist-is/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cac/w-somerset-maugham-237_art_humility-is-a-virtue-that-is-enjoined-up_1978144.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cac/w-somerset-maugham-237_art_humility-is-a-virtue-that-is-enjoined-up_1978144.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cac/w-somerset-maugham-237_art_humility-is-a-virtue-that-is-enjoined-up_1978144.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Humility is a virtue that is enjoined upon us. So far as the artist is concerned, with good reason; indeed…” — W. Somerset Maugham", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "God calls us to be humble... 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But if He is God as well as man, His language falls into place and everything that He says is intelligible. But if He is not what He claimed to be, then some of His most precious sayings are nothing but bombastic outburts of self-adulation that breathe rather the spirit of Lucifer than the spirit of a good man. What avails Him to proclam the law of self-renouncement, if He Himself renounces truth to call Himself God? Even His sacrifice on the Cross becomes a suspect and dated thing, when it goes hand in hand with delusions of grandeur and infernal conceit. He could not be called even a sincere teacher, for no sincere teacher would allow anyone to construe his claims to share the rank and the name of the Great God in heaven.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Fulton J. 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