Humility Quotes

If truth is like the terrain, are we the generation who sees it as one who has worn shoes all his life or one who has never worn shoes? Yet still, even if the walk starts out as painful, the experience may be well worth it.

~ Criss Jami

There is something holy about taking up the task of stewarding a life, especially our own. If we come to this work at all, we must come with humble expectations and a willingness to be led. We submit to the process, trusting that the science is sound, even when what we’re called to do hurts.

~ Russ Ramsey

Ego speaks from a place of pride.Judgement comes from a place of pain.Courage speaks from a place of humility.Correction comes from a place of love.Where are you operating from?

~ Kemi Sogunle

One may suffer the long-term in order to grow in appreciation for the small things. For in short-term suffering, one only notices the large.

~ Criss Jami

Some days you feel like you're the worst of sinners, others like you're the most righteous person on earth. I am convinced that the former is when you're closest to God.

~ Criss Jami

If someone were to ask whether communications skills or meekness is most important to a marriage, I'd answer meekness, hands down. You can be a superb communicator but still never have the humility to ask, 'Is it I?' Communication skills are no substitute for Christlike attributes. As Dr. Douglas Brinley has observed, 'Without theological perspectives, secular exercises designed to improve our relationship and our communication skills (the common tools of counselors and marriage books) will never work any permanent change in one's heart: they simply develop more clever and skilled fighters!

~ John Bytheway

Violinists wear the imprint on their necks with prideFor they are the players of harmony.Pilgrims, too, wear the imprint on their foreheads with prideFor they are the conductors of unity.And Lovers? Why, they are made humble by the imprint on their heartsFor they are merely the instruments of rhapsody.

~ Kamand Kojouri

We often use the Bible as a source for personal validation and defense, a sidekick and a shield, but these will prove ineffective without first the other part. We must also allow ourselves to be wounded by it. We tend to forget its authority - that it is a double-edged sword. Our decrepit, depraved hearts must be completely ripped out in order to welcome that of God.

~ Criss Jami

Beware of those who are too focused with polishing and beautifying their outer shells. They lack true substance to understand that genuine beauty is reflected from the heart that resides inside.

~ Suzy Kassem

You do not attain success when you associate with those in high positions, It comes when you accept yourself and realize that only you can take yourself to where your heart truly lies.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

To esteem what makes you holy over what makes you happy - that is the greatest dare.

~ Criss Jami

I'm a weak man, Navani. I really am. If I give myself a few feet of leeway, I burst through all of my prohibitions.

~ Dalinar Kholin

if you think you know all that somebody knows, you shall least know all that somebody knows. If you think you least know all that somebody knows, you shall really know all that somebody knows.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

There is no humility in calling yourself a Christian, placing Christ in the role of colleague. The humility lies in the truth of your imperfection and a more accurate description as a student of Christianity, placing Christ back in the role as head teacher.

~ Steve Maraboli

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 the world.

~ Ellen G. White

It is only kindness and love, which can change the human heart.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We humble ourselves under the mighty grace of the Creator. He will deliver us from every chain and oppression.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

This is what the LORD requires of every man; to do justice, to love mercy and to humbly work with God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Remember, there are people who care for us: there are some who grow food for us, some who cook for us, some who take our trash out, some who keep us safe, some who call us late at night when it’s been a tough day and some who are right by our side the next morning when we are sick, some who smile at us, some who hold the door for us, some who compliment us, who back us, who pray for us. And, they can be friends and family and mentors and relatives and sometimes, in fact, most of the times, even perfect strangers. Let’s be grateful to each one of them, let’s be grateful to all those around us.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyone's parent, humility without love results in the need to be everyone's child, and love with humility results in the desire to be a friend.

~ Criss Jami

Going to church is a beautiful act of humility. You are saying to the world, I need God and His family.

~ Carlos A. Rodriguez

Most kinds of power require a substantial sacrifice by whoever wants the power. There is an apprenticeship, a discipline lasting many years. Whatever kind of power you want. President of the company. Black belt in karate. Spiritual guru. Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you have attained it, it is your power. It can't be given away; it resides in you. It is literally the result of your discipline.Now, what is interesting about this process is that, by the time someone has acquired the ability to kill with his bare hands, he has also matured to the point where he won't use it unwisely. So that kind of power has a built-in control. The discipline of getting the power changes you so that you won't abuse it.

~ Michael Critchton

Never mistaken humility for foolishness, nor pride for power.

~ Gugu Mona

My knees will not tremble at the sight of a King but I will kneel down before a man of humility.

~ Princess Maleiha Bajunaid Candao

There is nothing humble about this woman.

~ Libbie Hawker

If only we were all better educated. If then, higher education would at last be a journey for skill and knowledge rather than for power and status.

~ Criss Jami

Power without compassion is like a giant that blocks the sunlight.

~ Criss Jami

People tend to think that money makes them strong, but it's those that learn to survive without it, are truly the stronger.

~ Anthony Liccione

Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow.

~ Criss Jami

Simplicity gives you the power of freedom.Kindness gives you the power of boldness.Humility gives you the power of acceptance.

~ Debasish Mridha

Simplicity and humility, not power or status, will bring you joy and happiness.

~ Debasish Mridha

A man needs to feel powerful and respected. Innately within us, as far back as we can remember, we have taught ourselves to grand stand in our abilities to be tough, to conquer, to impress and to win in all aspects of our lives in order to be validated by others and in doing so we have built our conceptual house of self on the sand of societal opinion. Yet, ironically, it’s only when a man finds his true strength in humility, in its purest sense, will he ever experience what genuine power and respect feels like. The man who builds his conceptual house of self on the rock of unpretentious decorum simply needs no validation outside of his creator. He is who he is…and for all intense and purposes that is the only respectable power any man should ever seek.

~ Jason Versey

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

~ Carl Sagan

False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.

~ Criss Jami

Attitude gives your work a good finishing beauty. You may be successful in what you do, but when you are not humble enough, nobody may get time to stop by to see what you have to show the world!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

During the flames of controversy, opinions, mass disputes, conflict, and world news, sometimes the most precious, refreshing, peaceful words to hear amidst all the chaos are simply and humbly 'I don't know.

~ Criss Jami

As rice grows riper, the lower it bows its head. Never lose your humility while you grow.

~ Jimvirle/Jinvirle

To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable, to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.

~ Criss Jami

The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.

~ Criss Jami

In order to free ourselves from our assumptions about love, we must ask ourselves what long-held, often buried assumptions are and then face them, which takes courage, humility, and kindness.

~ Sharon Salzberg