Humility Quotes

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

If I had any humility I would be perfect.

Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.

I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, "Does this suck?" and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, "I'm on fire, I'm amazing!" and I don't think that's the way to work.

I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world.

So much of how we act and what we do is based on humility or pride - that's everything. And when you can humble yourself, you know, we are more like Christ when we can humble ourselves.

Obedience to the word in humility of mind never confuses.

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.

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.

Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.

Power is dangerous unless you have humility.

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.

If we learn not humility, we learn nothing.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

I don't doubt for a second that Neil Armstrong's spirit is still with us: that unique blend of optimism, humility and the utter confidence that when the world needs someone to do the really big stuff, you need an American.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

True humility is contentment.