Humility Quotes · Page 77

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble, or we can be compelled to be humble.

— Ezra Taft Benson

Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason.

— Francis Quarles

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

— Jean Rostand

If you wish to cultivate humility, then you should associate with those who are humble.

— Frederick Lenz

The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door…

— Philip Yancey

The person who bears and suffers evils with meekness and silence is the sum of a Christian man.

— Charles Wesley

He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated.

— Anonymous

“Much of the world perceives that confidence and humility aren’t in partnership, but true confidence and true humility are in complete accord.”

— Elsie Spittle

“Sometimes a woman has experienced too much life to have any blush left in her cheeks, but the man who puts it…

— dannika dark

“Our sensitivity to nature, and our humility within it, are essential to our physical and spiritual survival. Yet, our growing disconnection from…

— Richard Louv

True karate is this: that in daily life one's mind and body be trained and developed in a spirit of humility, and…

— Gichin Funakoshi

“An educated woman carries herself with a humble, quiet grace, yet her presence is powerful. She does not feel as thou she…

— Daniel Whyte III

One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realizing this a mon should take no pleasure in the respect of…

— Gautama Buddha

It is important that you strive for humility, but not humiliation, for a cool, level-headed confidence, not a stiff, delusional arrogance.

— Michael Johnson

“It was amusing to me to see how the detective's overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a child asking questions…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

There is no vice, of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excited so much indignation…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“The war was between the Danes and Wessex. My war was with Odda the Younger, and I knew I was driven by…

— Bernard Cornwell

All of us, single or married, are eternally part of some family-someway, somewhere, somehow-and much of our joy in life comes as…

— John H. Groberg

“Other priests, he knew, found an intense pleasure in the raw, salty dialect of peasant conversation. They picked up pearls of wisdom…

— Morris L. West

“The truth of God's sovereignty . . . removes every ground for human boasting and instills the spirit of humility in its…

— Richard D. Phillips

My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a…

— Anonymous

The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say,…

— Neil Postman

Fasting with a pure heart and motives, I have discovered, brings personal revival and adds power to our prayers. Personal revival occurs…

— Bill Bright

I am not ashamed of my past. I am not ashamed of my humble beginning.

— Madam C. J. Walker

There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.

— William Osler

“A wise man is able to differentiate between humility and weakness, he does not mistake courage for pride.”

— Newton Gatambia

Modesty and faith are both companions: when one is taken away the other is taken.

— Anonymous

Only those who feel little in the eyes of God, can hope to be mighty in the eyes of men.

— Ernst Moritz Arndt

God calls us to be humble... Humility is a great defense against humiliation.

— Rev Run

The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.

— Hosea Ballou

“you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.”

— Anonymous

Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.

— Thomas Brooks

Let your modesty be a sufficient incitement, yea, an exhortation to everyone to be at peace on their merely looking at you.

— Anonymous

Whenever anybody does well spiritually, I usually ignore them. It's the greatest compliment I can pay them.

— Frederick Lenz

When someone compliments you, listen, but don't believe it. Praise or blame are immaterial. You know what you are.

— Frederick Lenz

The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly yoke.

— Ximenes Doudan

We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.

— Johann Lamont

“I was more than this meek, defenseless victim. I had something within me that was stronger than the sum of all my…

— Jeff Erno

Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent.

— William Shenstone