Humility Quotes

Alex Rodriguez seemed not to fit in with the rest of his Yankee teammates. For instance, he wanted a clubhouse attendant personally assigned to him, when there were four or five for the whole team. Seeing the rift between him and the rest of the team and how Rodriguez's major focus on how HE was perceived, Joe Torre suggested in the individual meeting that Rodriguez at least get his own coffee rather than send someone to get it for him. Later that day, Alex Rodriguez made a point of telling the manager that he got his own coffee – drawing attention to himself, even in what was meant to be just an example of how he could fit in with normal behavior.

~ Tom Verducci

Oh ... why not?' he smiled. This valley is a pleasant spot for meditation. I like New England... it is here that I have experienced some of my greatest successes - and several notable defeats. Defeat, you know, is not such a bad thing, if there's not too much of it... it makes for humility, and humility makes for caution, therefore for safety.' (Trace)

~ Jerome Bixby

A blush of breeze rose from the grass. Jacob felt as if an angel's wing had beat against his cheek. He touched his cheek slowly. He felt embarrassed by the thought.That I should think an angel came to me.He wept. And, again, the brush of breeze against his cheek.

~ Noah Benshea

The disillusionment with our own abilities is, perhaps, one of the most important things that can ever happen to us.

~ Tim Hansel

On Alex Rodriguez's difficulty performing in clutch situations, Joe Torre writes, In key situations, he can't get himself to concern himself with getting the job done instead of how it looks. There's a certain freefall you go through when you commit yourself without a guarantee that it's always going to be good. There's a trust and commitment thing that has to allow yourself fail, allow yourself to be embarrassed, allow yourself to be vulnerable

~ Tom Verducci

He was not utterly unskilled in handling his own lack of training, and he refused to be rashly drawn into a controversy about those matters from which there would be no exit nor easy way of retreat. This was an additional ground for my pleasure. For the controlled modesty of a mind that admits limitations is more beautiful than the things I was anxious to know about.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

Yes, I am your enemy, as I was in my other incarnations, but that is my nature, and it is something I cannot escape. As I am defeated today, I tell you to believe what you will. Just as you believe in yourself, your worst enemies believe in themselves

~ E.g.kardos

As I am defeated today, I tell you to believe what you will. Just as you believe yourself, your worst enemies believe in themselves.

~ E.g. Kardos

The question to ask, when you feel pride, then, is this: What am I missing right now that a more humble person might see? What am I avoiding, or running from, with my bluster, franticness, and embellishments? It is far better to ask and answer these questions now, with the stakes still low, than it will be later.

~ Ryan Holiday

Some things sound better if they don't come from you.

~ Joyce Rachelle

Humility is an interesting virtue because if you don't have It, sooner or later it's given to you.

~ Nick Vujicic

Que sais je? [What do I know?]

~ Montaigne

I am thankful for all blessings and lessons learned that have given me peace and solace which I try to share with great humility and humbleness.

~ Donavan Nelson Butler

It doesn't make you a bad person to want to be remembered. To want to make it to the top. To provide for yourself and your family. After all, that's all part of the allure. There is a balance. Soccer coach Tony Adams expresses it well. Play for the name on the front of the jersey, he says, and they'll remember the name on the back.

~ Ryan Holiday

Humility carries less weight and it makes things float. Pride is weighty and it makes things sink! It takes humility then for a ‘ship’, regardless of how loaded it is, to float on the surface of the ‘sea’. And it takes pride for the ‘small stone’ to sink when dropped into the ‘sea’! Go with humility then!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

To appreciate beauty is to experience humility-- to recognize that something larger and more powerful than oneself is at work in the environment. And humility, it turns out, is key to recognizing that in order to survive, you must adapt yourself to the environment, that it won't adapt to your needs.

~ Daniel James Brown

If you want to have an impact in your company, have a point of view that sometimes challenges the status quo but do the work required to make the point of view an informed one.

~ Martha Heller

To be humble is to be so sure of one's self and one's mission that one can forego calling excessive attention to one's self and status. And, even more pointedly, to be humble is to revel in the accomplishments or potentials of others -- especially those with whom one identifies and to whom one is linked organically.

~ Cornel West

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

~ Jane Austen

Humility moves more mountains than arrogance.

~ Alan Cohen

Have you ever noticed how the most intriguing individual in the room seems content to listen sooner than speak?

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

On his way offstage, the president shook hands with Lin and said, I'm proud of you, man. (In a gesture of self-restraint, Lin had stuck to the performance calendar they had announced before learning that President Obama was coming, the one that said Javier Muñoz would play Hamilton that afternoon.)

~ Lin-Manuel Miranda

Millennials (aka Generation Y) are great at social media (Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Twitter,Tumblr, Instagram, Flickr, Snapchat, Pinterest, YouTube, Vimeo, and Periscope) but lack time tested social skills ( patience, humility, active listening, respect for parents, teachers, elderly)

~ Ramesh Lohia

Real humility is not about denying the gifts you are offered, it is accepting them.

~ Alan Cohen

Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Arrogance doesn't have variety in shades.. Humility has umpteen.

~ Talees Rizvi

Humility is the most undervalued godly virtue.

~ Emily R. King

The trait [Morey] looked for was awareness that they were seeking answers to questions with no certain answers--that they were inherently fallible. I always ask them, 'Who did you miss?' he said. Which future superstar had they written off, or which future bust had they fallen in love with? If they don't give me a good one, I'm like, 'Fuck 'em.

~ Michael Lewis

Humility is the acknowledgement that without God you wouldn't have made it thus far.

~ Gift Gugu Mona

Respect and humility go together. Humility is not meekness, but the opposite of arrogance. A wise old Indian man once said, Empty drums make the loudest noise. Grandfather often repeated this phrase to indicate that those with the least understanding are the most arrogant.

~ Arun Gandhi

Personal dignity begins by accepting responsibility for our actions, acting humbly, and extending compassion to other people. Personal humility requires choosing living with quietness of the heart over living in the depths of animosity, despair, and discord.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Life never ceases having a meaning for a humble person. The freedom of choice, the sovereignty that we hold over our own souls, enables a person to discover the meaning of his or her own life every day, even in suffering or death.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

A dead end is only the end of your road if you fail to turn around. Too many people needlessly waste time and energy trying to find a way across a dead end street. Stop, turn around, and ask God for directions to get to where you were going in the first place. Recalculate!

~ Katherine J Walden

At some time during the process, [of writing] I came up with a therapeutic device. After each draft I would tear up the pages and feed the paper to a worm compost I keep in my garage. A few months later, those painful pages were dirt that nourished my yard, which I could walk with bare feet. It was a real and tangible connection to that larger immensity. I liked to remind myself that the same process is going to happen to me when I'm done, when I die and nature tears me up...

~ Ryan Holiday

Humility is the proper attitude towards all true greatness, including one's own greatness as a human being, but above all towards the greatness which is not oneself, which is beyond one's self

~ Karol Wojtyla

A high school student wrote to ask, What was the greatest event in American history? I can't say. However, I suspect that like so many great events, it was something very simple and very quiet with little or no fanfare (such as someone forgiving someone else for a deep hurt that eventually changed the course of history). The really important great things are never center stage of life's dramas; they're always in the wings. That's why it's so essential for us to be mindful of the humble and the deep rather than the flashy and the superficial.

~ Fred Rogers

And the memory made her humble, for we should not forget what it is to be young and to have ideas and attitudes that may later seem so fanciful.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility. Catch him at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, 'By jove! I'm being humble!', and almost immediately pride—pride at his own humility—will appear. If he awakes to the danger and tries to smother this new form of pride, make him proud of his attempt—and so on, through as many stages a you please. But don't try this too long, for fear you may awake his sense of humour and proportion, in which case he will merely laugh at you and go to bed.

~ C.s. Lewis

Loving ourselves so much, we are naturally led to enlarge our own merits, to play down our transgressions, to judge others by different standards from those used to judge ourselves. Enlarged merits? They are described by your fellow-writer Trilussa:The little snail of VaingloryWho had crawled up an obeliskLooked at its slimy trail and said:I see I'll leave my mark on History.This is the way we are, dear Twain; even a bit of slime, if it is our own, and because it is our own, makes us boast, gives us a swelled head!

~ Pope John Paul I

When I am paid a compliment, I must compare myself with the little donkey that carried Christ on Palm Sunday. And I say to myself: If that little creature, hearing the applause of the crowd, had become proud and had begun -- jackass that he was -- to bow his thanks left and right like a prima donna, how much hilarity he would have aroused! Don't act the same!

~ Pope John Paul I