True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
True humility and fear of the Lord lead to riches, honor, and long life. — Proverbs 22:4 Copy Share Image
True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
When grace changes the heart, submission out of fear changes to submission out of love, and true humility is born. — William Hendriksen Copy Share Image
“Pride is not the opposite of shame, but it's source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.” — General Iroh Copy Share Image
“True humility is being able to accept criticisms as graciously as we accept compliments.” — Sabrina Newby Copy Share Image
Accepting responsibility for problems that you didn't cause is a reflection of true humility. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That which we look on with unselfish love And true humility is surely ours, Even as a lake looks at the stars… — Mary Gardiner Brainard Copy Share Image
O son, thou hast not true humility, The highest virtue, mother of them all; But her thou hast not know; for what… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“again. True humility and true pride are the same thing. They both consist of knowing who you really are and what you can do. So” — Serge Kahili King Copy Share Image
True humility is absolute obedience and dependence on God. It puts Him first, others second, and ourselves third in all things. — John Bevere Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
What is Truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the "voice within"… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“It does not pay away a penny from you to say "am sorry", "I won't do that again"! It does not take… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
We find that the statements of science are not of what is true and what is not true, but statements of what… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
In order to learn true humility (I use this expression to describe the state of mind under discussion), it is good for… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Let me follow in Thy footsteps, O Jesus ! I would imitate Thee, but cannot without the aid of Thy grace! O… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
True humility is intelligent self-respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us mindful of… — Ralph Washington Sockman Copy Share Image
True humility is a Christian grace and one of the fruits of the Spirit, originating in a deep consciousness of sin past… — James McCosh Copy Share Image
“Against Hume, Kant has found a more proper ground for humility: “True humility follows unavoidably from our sincere and exact comparison of… — Jeanine Grenberg Copy Share Image
“The way of salvation is found with humility. Being able to admit that we are recalcitrant glory-hounds. Being able to admit that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And here it is that the teaching is needed: If you would enter into full fellowship with Christ in His death,and know… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
“Who among us is greater? True humility and servant leadership is a rare and elusive attribute these days however the greatest example… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
“The war was between the Danes and Wessex. My war was with Odda the Younger, and I knew I was driven by… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
“Father Ratti had often explained, in Religious Knowledge class, that true humility did not mean a sense of worthlessness or the kind… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“And St. Francis added: "My dear and beloved Brother, the treasure of blessed poverty is so very precious and divine that we… — St. Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
True humility is not in the absence of confidence but strength restrained. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
“May any praise of your character come from others instead of yourself.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
He who wants to learn true humility should reflect upon the Passion of Jesus. (267) — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
“It taught me that . . . there can be no true humility and no true compassion where there is no courage. ” — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
“True humility is a kind of self-annihilation; and this is the centre of all virtues.” — John Wesley Copy Share Image
To learn true humility, we need more than a redefinition of greatness; we need even more than Jesus' personal example of humble… — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
“In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
