Humility Quotes
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. The key to all of that is keeping hold of humility and keeping hold of the people around you, and making sure you stay grounded with your family and friends.
Kimbra Lee Johnson
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The indispensible judicial requisite is intellectual humility.
Felix Frankfurter
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Your emotions are exposed when you play golf: humility, pride, anger, it all comes out with each swing. You lay it all on the line.
Bryant Gumbel
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I can say in all humility that I have not used my public office to enrich myself, enrich my family or to enrich my friends.
Manmohan Singh
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If it is hard to accept a rebuke, even a private one, it is harder still to administer one in loving humility.
D. A. Carson
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Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.
Dag Hammarskjold
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In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.
William Shakespeare
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The spirit of humility is sweeter than honey, and those who nourish themselves with this honey produce sweet fruit.
Anthony of Padua
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There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
William Osler
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I have seen humility in many of the finest leaders I have met the world over. And indeed, it is embodied in the warm, engaging and quintessentially successful spirit of Sir Richard Branson.
Naveen Jain
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When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.
James Balog
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We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.
Johann Lamont
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I was a production assistant. I saw what people who are full of themselves are like - another reason not to lose your humility! I have a mouth on me so I wasn't the best P.A.
Octavia Spencer
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Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.
Bill Vaughan
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There is nothing I can do to undo what I did. I can only say again how sorry I am to those I let down and then strive to go forward with a greater sense of humility and purpose, and with gratitude to those who stood with me during a very difficult chapter in my life.
David Petraeus
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Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn - and those are all good things.
Dick Van Dyke
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Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.
William Lewis Safir
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Expecting to be wrong about most things most of the time brings, finally, the kind of humility that leads to peace. I think.
John Burdett
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The real wealth in Krishna Consciousness is Humility. We don't have to become a big devotee rather we have to become a Humble Devotee.
Bhakti Charu Swami
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Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain only extravagance; they discard humility, and aim only at being first. Therefore they shall surely perish.
Lao Tzu
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Lots of human-rights tragedies deserve concerts, but there's something extra with Tibet. It's a spiritual culture, a country rooted in humility and compassion. And among artists, there's a lot of Buddhists, people who want an alternative to basic Christianity, which doesn't offer much.
Ed Kowalczyk
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With equal sweetness the commissioned hours Shed light and dew upon both weeds and flowers. The weeds unthankful raise their vile heads high, Flaunting back insult to the gracious sky; While the dear flowers, wht fond humility, Uplift the eyelids of a starry eye In speechless homage, and, from grateful hearts, Perfume that homage all around imparts.
Margaret Fuller
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The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
John Ruskin