Humility Quotes

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.

Pride juggles with her toppling towers,
They strike the sun and cease,
But the firm feet of humility
They grip the ground like trees.

Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority that is the gravity of our sinful nature, not grace.

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.

Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.

I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

O be very sure that no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you.

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.