Humility Quotes

• But we need to pray daily for humility and honesty to see these sinful attitudes for that they really are, and then for grace and discipline to root them out of our minds and replace them with thoughts pleasing to God.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • God
  • Grace
  • Attitudes

• What, indeed, does not that word "cheerfulness" imply? It means a contented spirit, it means a pure heart, it means a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and charity; it means a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Heart
  • Mean
  • Appreciation

• Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Ideas
  • Confused
  • Meekness

• I find afflictions to be good for me. I have always found them so. Afflictions are happy means in the hands of the Holy Spirit to subdue my corruptions, my pride, my evil passions, my inordinate love to the creature. Afflictions soften my hard heart, bring me to my knees, increase faith, increase love, increase humility, increase self-denial. Afflictions make me poor in spirit, and nothing in my own eyes.

  

  Joseph Williams
  • Heart
  • Passion
  • Mean

• I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

  

  Emily VanCamp
  • People
  • Humility
  • Annoying

• If we see pride among people who have no idea about Dharma, it is understandable. However, if afflictive emotions and haughtiness are present among Dharma practitioners, it is great disgrace to practice

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Great
  • Present

• In Christ, man who made himself God encounters God who made himself man. Unrivaled self-importance and pride encounters unrivaled self-emptying and humility.

  

  Christopher West
  • God
  • Faith
  • Inspiration

• It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Humility
  • First Time
  • Heep Family

• sooner or later the universe usually provides lessons of humility to those who need it the most.

  

  Cherie Carter-Scott
  • Universe
  • Needs
  • Lessons

• I've worked on my game, and I don't think it has any holes, no weaknesses. I say that with humility because you can always work to get better. But I run inside, I run outside, and I'm just not a guy you have to take off the field for certain packages.

  

  Ezekiel Elliott
  • Game
  • Worked
  • Field

• An actor should always let humility outweigh ambition.

  

  Anna Kendrick
  • Ambition
  • Humility

• Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • True
  • Humility
  • Servility

• On a film crew, you can see very quickly that some people who are working with you are stronger than you. Then you have to have the humility to listen to them. And because very often they have better ideas than yours, it can be tough on the evil ego. But it makes a better film.

  

  Denis Villeneuve
  • People
  • Evil
  • Ego

• It breaks my heart when couples focus more on being wed than being married. Two become one doesn't happen without work, humility, and sacrifice.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • Heart
  • Focus
  • Couple

• Humility is the mother of all virtues. Humility says we are not in control, principles are in control, therefore we submit ourselves to principles. Pride says that we are in control, and since our values govern our behavior, we can simply do life our way.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Mother
  • Pride
  • Values

• Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Power
  • Courage
  • Humility

• I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you and the State over which you preside in His holy protection; that He would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy nation.

  

  George Washington
  • Justice
  • Prayer
  • Blessed

• I'm grateful for my brokenness. I'm grateful for my humility.

  

  James McGreevey
  • Humility

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

  

  Freya Stark
  • People
  • Humility
  • Humble

• Have we the humility to thank our Father for the gift of pain?

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Father
  • Pain
  • Gift

• Seek the simplest in all things, in food, clothing, without being ashamed of poverty. For a great part of the world lives in poverty. Do not say, "I am the son of a rich man. It is shameful for me to be in poverty." Christ, your Heavenly Father, Who gave birth to you in the baptistery, is not in worldly riches. Rather he walked in poverty and had nowhere to lay His head.

  

  Gennadius of Constantinople
  • Poverty
  • inspirational
  • Christ

• There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Purity
  • Cosmetics
  • Signatures

• Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.

  

  Andrew Murray
  • Heaven
  • Pride
  • Dies

• Humility is not just declaring that you are not God. It is deciding daily to not be God.

  

  Darrin Patrick
  • God
  • Humility
  • Declaring

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