Humility Quotes

1910 Humility quotes by 1042 unique authors

True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty. — C.S. Lewis
Level 5 leaders are differentiated from other levels of leaders in that they have a wonderful blend of personal humility combined with extraordinary professional will.… — James C. Collins
The best CEOs in our research display tremendous ambition for their company combined with the stoic will to do whatever it takes, no matter how… — James C. Collins
All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power. If you want to govern the people,… — Laozi
It is said that it is far more difficult to hold and maintain leadership (liberty) than it is to attain it. Success is a ruthless… — Samuel J. Tilden
What we want is to be real. Let us not appear to be more than we are. Don't let us put on any cant, any… — Dwight L. Moody
Humility, after the first shock, is cheerful virtue. — C.S. Lewis
I did nothing that I might not have done better. — Richard Baxter
Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility. — Saint Augustine
God created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us. — Martin Luther
There are two classes of Christians: the proud who imagine they are humble and the humble who are afraid they are proud. There should be… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Let any man turn to God in earnest, let him begin to exercise himself unto godliness, let him seek to develop his powers of spiritual… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Power is dangerous unless you have humility. — Richard J. Daley
We are all wounded. But wounds are necessary for his healing light to enter into our beings. Without wounds and failure and frustrations and defeats,… — Bo Sanchez
At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility with a comb-over.… — David Foster Wallace
Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance… — Matthew Henry
Pride builds walls between people, humility builds bridges. — Rick Warren
The expansion of your own consciousness, love capacity, humility and compassion - this is the path; this is the way. — Bryant H. McGill
Humility is the only thing that no devil can imitate. — John Climacus
In prosperity, give thanks to God with humility and fear lest by pride you abuse God's benefits and so offend him. — Louis IX of France
I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation. And my conversation with God is very open-ended. I pray for humility, honestly, because it's… — Katy Perry
The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with… — Arthur Miller
Americans to bow our heads in humility before our Heavenly Father, a God who calls us not to judge our neighbors, but to love them,… — George W. Bush
If I had my life to live over again I would not devote it to develop new industrial processes: I would try to add my… — Leo Baekeland
Self-reflection entails asking yourself questions about your values, assessing your strengths and failures, thinking about your perceptions and interactions with others, and imagining where you… — Unknown Author

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