Humility Quotes

• And when we would make much of that which cannot matter much to thee, forgive us -a frequent part of the prayer that opened sermons.

  

  John Hines
  • Prayer
  • Humility
  • Forgiving

• The battle against pride in the heart is lifelong, so humility should become an ever more deeply seated attitude of living

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Heart
  • Attitude
  • Pride

• Cheerfully fessing up to our failures turns crazy mind off, humility and compassion on. I learned this in a karate dojo that had a strange tradition. Everyone there loved recounting failure stories, and after an evening of smacking one another, we'd sit and have a beer while the students swapped tales of martial arts disaster.

  

  Martha Beck
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Crazy

• If I was not a remarkably modest man, I should probably brag a little, and say that I had done what no American ever before accomplished by visiting the queen at her palace twice within eight days.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Men
  • Done
  • American

• Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Live
  • Lines
  • Delight

• Something very beautiful happens to people when their world's fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • World
  • Beautiful

• Be pure and simple, and love all because all are one. Live a sincere life; be natural, and be honest with yourself. Honesty will guard you against false modesty and will give you the strength of true humility. Spare no pains to help others. Seek no other reward than the gift of Divine Love.

  

  Meher Baba
  • Life
  • Live
  • True

• Humility is the forgetfulness of self.

  

  Thomas Keating
  • Humility
  • Forgetfulness

• Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

  

  Max Beerbohm
  • Humility

• If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Done
  • Proud
  • Humility

• The noble must make humility his root.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Humility
  • Noble
  • Root

• A good trader has to have three things: a chronic inability to accept things at face value, to feel continuously unsettled, and to have humility.

  

  Michael Steinhardt
  • Accepting
  • Inability
  • Traders

• The Son of God did not want to be seen and found in heaven. Therefore he descended from heaven into this humility and came to us in our flesh, laid himself into the womb of his mother and into the manger and went on to the cross. This was the ladder that he placed on earth so that we might ascend to God on it. This is the way you must take.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Mother
  • Way
  • Heaven

• Humility is simply the disposition which prepares the soul for living on trust.

  

  Andrew Murray
  • Soul
  • Humility
  • Disposition

• Racing serves as a formal demonstration of your ability to ride the three-headed monster. The first monster is your physical preparation-lifting weights for strength, running for endurance, working on your technique. The second monster is your mental preparation-all our jabbering about humility, battling for your life, taking complete responsibility for the outcome. The last monster is your X Factor, your soul, your courage. Taken altogether, I call this three-headed monster the Process of Winning.

  

  Brad Alan Lewis
  • Winning
  • Monster
  • Racing

• The spirit of non-violence necessarily leads to humility. Non-violence means reliance on God, the rock of ages. If we would seek his aid, we must approach Him with a humble and contrite heart.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Heart
  • Spirit

• The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Compassion

• For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to beg pardon for his excellences and merits from those who have none? For whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • World
  • Humility
  • Envy

• Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility.

  

  William Penn
  • Humility
  • Shining

• You cannot produce trust just like you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not.

  

  William P. Young
  • Humility
  • Produce
  • Shack

• I never left my roots. You can identify me as someone that didn't become high and mighty. Humility is a defining trait all of us can forever learn, and I try to be as humble as anyone can be.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Forever
  • Traits
  • Humble Trying

• We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.

  

  Freya Stark
  • People
  • Humility
  • Humble

• 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 a certain humility.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Job
  • Humility

• The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Habit
  • Humility

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