Humility Quotes

Jesus let the disciples know that they were striving in the wrong direction. They were trying to climb up a ladder that they instead should be climbing down.

~ Jennifer L. Lane

Simplicity is the beauty of life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

May any praise of your character come from others instead of yourself.

~ Joyce Rachelle

To nurture your career, it makes sense to cultivate your strengths. To nurture your moral core, it is necessary to confront your weaknesses.

~ David Brooks

there was perhaps a strain of humility that was more common then than now, that there was a moral ecology, stretching back centuries but less prominent now, encouraging people to be more skeptical of their desires, more aware of their own weaknesses, more intent on combatting the flaws in their own natures and turning weakness into strength.

~ David Brooks

True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.

~ Richard Rohr

Victory, is like a boxer that hangs his gloves, after the consecutive losses; sometimes walking away is what builds character, than the actual fight. As humble fruit on a tree that falls to the ground and rots, never finding appreciation in the taste of mouths.

~ Anthony Liccione

There are three keys for your journey. Humility, wisdom, love. Don’t leave without them - they will enrich you all the way. And they will bless those around you.

~ Anusha Atukorala

We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war or an earthquake or some other calamity, and at once courage becomes so obviously lovely and important even in human eyes that all our work is undone, and there is still at least one vice of which they feel genuine shame. The danger of inducing cowardice in our patients, therefore, is lest we produce real self-knowledge and self-loathing, with consequent repentance and humility.

~ C.s. Lewis

Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it takes, but also by what it gives. And powerlessness reaffirmed not just by the helplessness of those who have lost, but also by the gratitude of those who have (or THINK they have) gained.

~ Arundhati Roy

A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself.

~ Criss Jami

There is nothing new under the sun but that of the Son. Man's rebellion against God has always been because he would rather fall in pride than rise in humility.

~ Criss Jami

Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing.

~ Criss Jami

A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.

~ Suzy Kassem

I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.

~ Richard Rohr

Spiritual pride tends to speak of other persons’ sins with bitterness or with laughter and levity and an air of contempt. But pure Christian humility rather tends either to be silent about these problems or to speak of them with grief and pity. Spiritual pride is very apt to suspect others, but a humble Christian is most guarded about himself. He is as suspicious of nothing in the world as he is of his own heart. The proud person is apt to find fault with other believers, that they are low in grace, and to be much in observing how cold and dead they are and to be quick to note their deficiencies. But the humble Christian has so much to do at home and sees so much evil in his own heart and is so concerned about it that he is not apt to be very busy with other hearts. He is apt to esteem others better than himself.

~ Jonathan Edwards

If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Pride keeps you from dealing with truth. It distorts your vision. You never change when you think everything is fine. Pride hardens your heart and dims the eyes of your understanding. It keeps you from the change of heart--repentance--that will set you free.

~ John Bevere

One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered.

~ Criss Jami

Horizontal (human-centered) grief is much less concerned with being broken and more concerned with being busted.

~ Matt Chandler

What causes all this?Pride. What else?

~ W.p. Kinsella

I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.

~ Richard Rohr

The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.

~ Timothy J. Keller

When a man truly sees himself, he knows nobody can say anything about him that is too bad.

~ D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Saying of the ProphetHumilityHumility and courtesy are themselves a part of piety.

~ Idries Shah

If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things.

~ Idries Shah

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

~ Michel De Montaigne

True humility is not thinking less of yourself, it is thinking of yourself less.

~ Rick Warren

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

~ Winston S. Churchill

As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.

~ C.s. Lewis

To find the balance you want, this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have 4 legs instead of 2. That way, you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.

~ Albert Einstein

Every person that you meet knows something you don't, learn from them.

~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.

I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.

~ Hermann Hesse

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

~ Ann Landers

There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status.

~ Nelson Mandela

There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God.

~ Paul David Washer

Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.

~ Andrew Murray

Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.

~ David Richo

Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is asacrament that should be taken kneeling.

~ Oscar Wilde