Humility Quotes

• If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Perfect
  • Humility
  • Only

• Wherever you find real love, you will also find humility. Remember something: humility is not a weak and timid quality. Too often we feel that humility is a sign of weakness. This is not so. It is the sign of strength and security.

  

  Kathryn Kuhlman
  • Quality
  • Security
  • Weakness

• I would hope that, for me, regardless of what happens in my career in the future, I always want to maintain a level of humility. I think it's so important to not lose yourself and to just understand that you're a conduit.

  

  Paul Wesley
  • Important
  • Hope
  • Future

• It is true that I have been studying both humility and pride for many years for the purpose of weakening pride in my own life and cultivating humility by the grace of God.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • Life
  • God
  • True

• Marriage requires the giving and keeping of confidences, the sharing of thoughts and feelings, respect and understanding always, marriage requires humility - the humility to repent, the humility to forgive. Marriage requires flexibility (to give and take) and firmness: not to compromise principles. And a wise and moderate sense of humor. Both need to be pulling together in the same direction.

  

  Richard L. Evans
  • Giving
  • Respect
  • Understanding

• Humility is what makes teams great. I've preached it for a long period of time.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Humility
  • Teams
  • Preached

• What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • World
  • More
  • Humility

• In life, we all struggle and strive to make progress. When will you know you've reached success? A billion dollars is a good sign, but there's a better one - humility.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Life
  • Good
  • Success

• We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Masters
  • Crafts

• Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • God
  • Love
  • Character

• What he says, even on his knees, about his own sinfulness is all parrot talk. At bottom, he still believes he has run up a very favorable credit-balance in the Enemy's ledger by allowing himself to be converted, and thinks that he is showing great humility and condescension in going to church with these 'smug', commonplace neighbors at all.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Great
  • Believe

• A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Man
  • Reading
  • Wife

• Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.

  

  Francis of Assisi
  • World
  • Men
  • Pride

• The world can be better if there's love, tolerance and humility.

  

  Irena Sendler
  • World
  • Love
  • Humility

• It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Time
  • Real
  • Truth

• Practice radical humility. Take no credit for your talents, intellectual abilities, aptitudes, or proficiencies. Be in a state of awe and bewilderment.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Practice
  • Humility
  • Credit

• You approach faith with humility. You can have some idea, but it boils down to do you see religion as a club, or do you see religion as a path? Do you see it as a wall that separates you or do you see it as a bridge that connects you to God and other people? When you see it as a bridge, you aren't so worried about bringing others over to your side.

  

  Keith Ellison
  • People
  • God
  • Faith

• Humility is not weakness, but strength under control

  

  A. R. Bernard
  • Control
  • Humility
  • Weakness

• They could fall in love with fresh, new people, or they could have the courage and humility to tear off some essential layer of themselves and reveal to each other a whole new level of otherness, a level far beyond what sort of music they liked. It seemed to her everyone had too much self-protective pride to truly strip down to their souls in front of their long-term partners. It was easier to pretend there was nothing more to know, to fall into an easygoing companionship. It was almost embarrassing to

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • People
  • Music
  • Long

• A certain degree of intellectual humility is a good thing.

  

  David Petraeus
  • Good
  • Humility

• If you have doubt about a person's humility or smarts, don't ignore it. More often than not, there is something causing that doubt.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Doubt
  • Humility
  • Ignore

• I think that's the ultimate sign of a teammate and respect is that they compete against one another so hard at practice that here's a chance to share some knowledge inside. It takes some humility to do that.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Knowledge
  • Respect
  • Practice

• Now that I have and I'm not a have-not, I've learned how important it is to maintain humility.

  

  Shania Twain
  • Important
  • Humility

• Although individuals may be highly intelligent, they are sometimes dogged by skepticism and doubts. They are clever, but they tend to be hesitant and skeptical and are never really able to settle down. These people are the least receptive.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • May
  • Pride

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