Humility Quotations

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

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. From my perspective, I am not a humble man. I am a proud man pursuing humility by the grace of God.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins.

The best way to learn how to work with actors is to have had experience of trying to act yourself - it will teach you humility if nothing else.

I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.

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.

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success.

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference. 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.

My family believe you should never be flashy about anything. Maybe that handicapped me a little bit, that extreme humility.

To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

If zeal had been appropriate for putting humanity right, why did God the Word clothe himself in the body, using gentleness and humility in order to bring the world back to his Father?

No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.

If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.

So much about living life, to me, is about humility and gratitude. And I've tried very hard to have those qualities and be that person and I'm just so disappointed in myself that I allowed it to slip.

Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.

One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

You can fail in films because you don't have the talent, or you have too much humility, or you lack ferociousness. I'm a gangster. If I want something, I'll grab it.

What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself.

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

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.

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.

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

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

I had a brief experience in the food industry. I was a bus boy in a Mexican restaurant in Arizona, scraping re-fried beans off people's plates. It teaches you a bit of humility and the importance of a good deodorant.

Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.

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.

A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.

Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot

Wishing to open my mouth, O brethren, and speak on the exalted theme of humility, I am filled with fear, even as a man who understands that he is about to discourse concerning God with the art of his own words. For humility is the raiment of the Godhead.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

When it comes to true humility in the face of history, nothing beats complete silence.

Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

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

Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.

How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean up our mess? Hope for a nanny God, who will with a miracle grant us amnesty from our folly - thats not aligned with either history or the text of the Bible.

Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.

The actor that taught me the most was Bernie Mac. I did my first big budget studio film with he and Angela Bassett, 'Mr. 3000' for Disney. Bernie taught me by example what creates success is humility and hard work.

Honesty is grounded in humility and indeed in humiliation, and in admitting exactly where we are powerless.

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

Nothing is worse than a beautiful girl fishing for compliments by saying how gross she is. On the flip side, I find genuine humility and modesty attractive.

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.

Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.

I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.

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.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.

I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed, because its not about you. You are a terminal for a higher power. As soon as you accept that, you can do it forever.

There is no international problem that can be addressed or solved without the engagement and leadership of the United States and everybody in the world knows that, its just fact of life. So sometimes I think we could conduct ourselves with a little more humility.

Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

I believe that what is really important is that God can speak to us. If we have the humility to approach him in prayer with the right attitude, he can speak to our intelligence directly.

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.

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

Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish acts, which elevate and ennoble the most sacred message that has come to our world.

It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.

One thing that golf teaches you is humility.

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

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

With sincere modesty, if there is such a thing, I have never thought of legacy at all. I am always grateful if people like what I have done. A legacy is something no one can forsee.

There is one common thing in superstars - enthusiasm and humility towards their work. Off sets, they are big stars for others, and they carry themselves the way they want to. When they are working, they are not stars.

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

Learning to accept failure on multiple levels is, to my way of thinking, the key to become a world-class therapist. But that means humility, and setting your ego aside, while you develop superb new technical skills.

What's hard, it seems, is living up to the words spoken by Jesus Christ, who preached naught but love and mercy and justice and humility.

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

The 20th century was a century in which human rights were infringed upon in numerous parts of the world, and Japan also bears responsibility in that regard. I believe that we have to look at our own history with humility and think about our responsibility.

The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.

By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.