Humility Quotes

To please God, live a godly life and nurture kindness, compassion, justice, and humility.

~ Jim George

The three jewels of Tao: compassion, moderation, and humility. Balthasar said compassion leads to courage, moderation leads to generosity, and humility leads to leadership.

~ Christopher Moore

Success follows those who champion a cause greater than themselves.

~ George Alexiou

The true test of faith is how we treat those who can do nothing for us in return.

~ Dillon Burroughs

A visitor asked Lincoln what good news he could take home from an audience with the august executive. The president spun a story about a machine that baffled a chess champion by beating him thrice. The stunned champ cried while inspecting the machine, There's a man in there!Lincoln's good news, he confided from the heights of leadership, was that there was in fact a man in there.

~ Shelby Foote

To feel the joy of life, sell your pride and get lost in the simplicity and humility.

~ Debasish Mridha

Society judges people by their successes. I get attracted by their dedication, simplicity, and humility.

~ Debasish Mridha

True wisdom is found in simplicity and in humility.

~ Debasish Mridha M.d.

The measure of wisdom is in simplicity, humility, and in friendliness.

~ Debasish Mridha M.d.

He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.

~ William Shakespeare

Be a goal-setter, a go-getter, all the while, moving, in humility and kindness.

~ Kamini Arichandran

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? Micah 6:8

~ Anonymous

True devotion and humility is when you carelessly allow yourself to fall in love with things you consider will make you look inferior, which in essence, makes you superior.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Kindness is a currency that can cover a multitude of interpersonal debts.

~ George Alexiou

Yeah, that’s my experience. Humbling to the point where you have major regrets about some of the stupid things you said, some of the things you thought were right. You keep going to these countries, and it’s like, you forgot the lesson from the last time. Because the first person you encounter kind of bitch-slaps you upside the head in the most wonderful, innocent way and you realize, God, I’m still an asshole. And this guy, by doing nothing except being broke and so incredibly polite—it takes you aback, you realize, I’m still not there yet. I still have like eight miles to go before I can even get into the parking lot of humility. I have to keep going back. It’s like going back to a chiropractor to get a readjustment. That’s me in Africa, that’s me in Southeast Asia. You come back humbled and you bring that into your life. It’s made me much more tolerant of other peoples—and I’m not saying I used to be a misogynist, or I used to be a racist, that was never my problem. But I can be extremely headstrong, impatient, rude. Like, “Hurry up, man. What’s your problem? Get out of my way.” That sentiment comes easy to me. Going to these countries, you realize none of that is necessary, none of it’s cool, it’s nothing Abraham Lincoln would do, and so why are you doing it? Those are the lessons I’ve learned.

~ Henry Rollins

Wish me everything that you can wish for the woman you dearly love, and I have as good as got it, John. I have better than got it, John.

~ Charles Dickens

For the case that one thinks he has plateaued in life, God has already set yet another peak for him to reach: and a much more challenging peak than his own, one that which is to serve others.

~ Criss Jami

Humility is hard when someone has things like wealth, knowledge, & recognition that may tempt him/her behave and act pridefully. Otherwise, worrying about pride without these factors that predispose you, it is just an illusion.

~ Assegid Habtewold

People often told him how humble he was, but they did not mean real humility, it was merely that he did not flaunt his membership in the wealthy club, did not exercise the rights it brought—to be rude, to be inconsiderate, to be greeted rather than to greet—and because so many others like him exercised those rights, his choices were interpreted as humility.

~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It is not your beauty, success or money that should define you; neither should your church calling, your charitable contributions or talents. Humility is the cornerstone of character, by which God judges our truth worth, and wisdom is the door he opens when we use it.

~ Shannon L. Alder

A poor man is not disposed to quick and high resentment when he is among the rich: he is apt to yield to others, for he knows others are above him: he is not stiff and self-willed; he is patient with hard fare; he expects no other than to be despised, and takes it patiently; he does not take it heinously that he overlooked and but little regarded; he is prepared to be in a lowly place; he readily honours his superiors; he takes reproofs quietly; he readily honours others as above him; he easily yields to be taught, and does not claim much to his understanding and judgment; he is not over nice or humoursome, and has his spirit subdued to hard things; he is not assuming, nor apt to take much upon him, but it is natural for him to be subject to others. Thus it is with the humble Christian.

~ Jonathan Edwards

Paulette had never been flush with self-confidence. People took that as humility, but humility isn’t painful and crippling. She hadn’t yet learned that humble and self-destructive aren’t the same thing at all. They’re not even on the same team. - From The Gardens of Ailana handbook for healers & mystics

~ Edward Fahey

Submission is not in the bowing of heads or knees but in the humbling of your whole being (spirit, soul and body)

~ Ikechukwu Izuakor

If you're capable of despising your own behavior, you might just love yourself.

~ Criss Jami

Never pupil was more humble, never pupil more obedient; thinking nothing of himself or of anything he had done or could do, his path was open to the swiftest and highest growth. It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing. The next point will be, whether he is growing at the ratio given him. The key to the whole thing is _obedience_, and nothing else.

~ George Macdonald

I am weary of this notion of faithfulness to a point of view at all cost. Life around us is ever changing, and I believe that one should try to change one’s slant accordingly—at least once every ten years. The great heroic devotion to one point of view is very alien to me—it’s a lack of humility. Mayakovsky killed himself because his pride would not be reconciled with something new happening within himself—or around him.

~ Boris Pasternak

Real humility knows how to slam a door closed and say no more. You can't be humble without self-love.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Humility is not weak, powerless, faint, a pushover, a punching bag or an abuse magnet, because above all — humility cares.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Real humility is graceful power, not a mandate to be victimized and abused.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Humility puts others first because first takes on new meaning through the practice of humility.

~ Bryant Mcgill

You are the first person who you should treat with humility. Respect yourself and let it overflow to others.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Every moment you are open, as a humble student, you are surrounded with infinite possibilities of choice.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.

~ Richard Rohr

The Holy Spirit builds on the smooth ground of humility. That's why God will tear you down in order to build you back up.

~ Alisa Hope Wagner

Humility is realm of a humble heart.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is not your talents that make you great, but your decisions.

~ Shannon L. Alder

That stormy day in the desert, however, much changed for me. We must have our goals, our dreams and we must strive for them. We are not gods, however; we do not have the power to shape every aspect of the future. And the road the world makes for us is one that teaches humility if we are willing to learn.

~ Dean Koontz

When you wake up each morning with a burning passion to accomplish a goal, you've already won the day.

~ George Alexiou

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.

~ Hermann Hesse

To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge, and act from the point of rest in ourselves. Then, how much disappears, and all that remains falls into place.In the point of rest at the center of our being, we encounter a world where all things are at rest in the same way. Then a tree becomes a mystery, a cloud a revelation, each man a cosmos of whose riches we can only catch glimpses. The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.

~ Dag Hammarskjöld