Humility Quotes

Humility grounds a person in the realization that life is not always fair, yet it can be manageable. Genuinely humble people are psychologically secure because they do not require others to dote on them, nor do they try to position themselves for favored treatment. Even as they lay down the wish to play God, they also choose not toe allow another human to assume the position of a god over them.

~ Les Carter

Oh. Yes. There would be someone, wouldn't there? Of course there would be a person. Ask at the farmhouse did not mean that you addressed your questions to the front porch. She had not thought it through.

~ T. Kingfisher

Humble people are dignified, not because they believe their behavior can be an effective tool to control others, but because they have made dignity a part of their character.

~ Les Carter

Indiscretion is weighted heavily towards youth, inaction is weighted heavily towards old age.

~ Clifford Cohen

That’s what we’ve lost, you know. What you’ve lost; all of you. A sense of wonder and awe and . . . sin. These people know there are still things they don’t know, things that can still go wrong, things they can still do wrong.

~ Iain M. Banks

Think about it! God is all-knowing but you're not His only child. You're not His end all and be all. Ezra, you're good, but you ain't all that, sweetie.

~ Love Belvin

Kissinger would probably be outraged even if he reread his own memoirs, on the grounds that they are not favorable enough.

~ Walter Isaacson

It is well for us when prayers about our sorrows are linked with pleas concerning our sins—when, being under God's hand, we are not wholly taken up with our pain, but remember our offences against God.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

One of my biggest challenges is figuring out how to shoehorn my newfound knowledge into conversations.

~ A.j. Jacobs

Martin Luther was a thoroughly educated man but he wore this lightly. His sermons were littered with only examples and improving tales, drawing equally from the fables of Aesop and the follies of life he observed all around him.

~ Andrew Pettegree

Confession is the giving up of ALL self-righteousness.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Even now, when I have time to consider what I've been and what I am, I doubt I comprehend my humanity, if I can claim so grand a word for my own morsel of life. I might as well be a meteor of a man, for all the difference I've made on earth.

~ Norman Lock

Maybe the best way for you to get us to summon our better selves is for you to show us yours.

~ Madam Secretary

If they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Your success should create a path that inspires others to follow.

~ Amitav Chowdhury

Pat Conroy embraced his new hometown with the grateful passion of a refugee.

~ William Grimes

The wings of the dove are as soft as they are swift. Gentleness is a sure result of the Sacred Dove's transforming power: hearts touched by His benign influence are meek and lowly henceforth and for ever.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

In front of an audience of Protestant clergy, the Catholic JFK was drawing strength from his vulnerability.

~ David Pietrusza

A man is his tallest when he is down on his knees in prayer.

~ Beth Moore

Pride is the archenemy of ministry.

~ Beth Moore

As his former student Alastair Fowler once remarked, Lewis seemed always on the verge of hilarity -- between a chuckle and a roar.

~ Greg Cootsona

The pitching coach was bugged by the author's technique because he had never seen anyone do it before, and besides, it wasn't the coach's idea.

~ Jim Bouton

We can choose to humble ourselves by receiving counsel and chastisement. We can choose to humble ourselves by forgiving those who have offended us. We can choose to humble ourselves by rendering selfless service. We can choose to humble ourselves by going on missions and preaching the word that can humble others. We can choose to humble ourselves by getting to the temple more frequently. We can choose to humble ourselves by confessing and forsaking our sins and being born of God. We can choose to humble ourselves by loving God, submitting our will to His, and putting Him first in our lives. Let us choose to be humble. We can do it. I know we can.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

The author emphasizes the importance of self-forgetfulness when his statistics were marred by a bad outing. He forgot all of that outing to such an extent that he quipped, What was my name?

~ Jim Bouton

We can choose to humble ourselves by conquering enmity toward our brothers and sisters, esteeming them as ourselves, and lifting them as high as or higher than we are.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance. Lord Acton

~ Harold Holzer

When meeting criticism, he would regard it not as something to resent but as a thing to be examined, like an interesting beetle. That's a curious view, not uninteresting.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Though I am a lot of things, most importantly I am human.

~ Lindsey Rietzsch

Be civilized. Grudges are for Neanderthals. – Hubert Humphrey

~ David Pietrusza

He called himself Jack, a plain handshake of a name, a far cry from the Clive Staples he had been christened, and to be Jack was the hard work of a lifetime.

~ Philip Zaleski

Happiness was the responsibility you dreaded, it required the kind of rational discipline you did not value yourself enough to assume - and the anxious staleness of your days is the monument to your evasion of the knowledge that there is no moral substitute for happiness, that there is no more despicable coward than the man who deserted the battle for his joy, fearing to assert his right to existence, lacking the courage and the loyalty to life of a bird or a flower reaching for the sun. Discard the protective rags of that vice which you called a virtue: humility - learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness - and when you learn that pride is the sum of all virtues, you will learn to live like a man.

~ Ayn Rand

As the honors accrued, creativity diminished.

~ Philip Zaleski

Self-deprecation is the appropriate response of any new convert, as he matches his stained soul against the purity of God.

~ Philip Zaleski

Nietzsche tended to equate the memorable with the painful.

~ Harold Bloom

The author writes that key FDR aide Harry Hopkins was in such poor health near the end of his boss's second term that one observer said he didn't know how Hopkins could possibly report to the president. But, at the onset of war and genuine national emergency, Hopkins was animated with a new sense of purpose.

~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

Be gentle and humble in heart.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.

~ Charles Dickens

Prayer is the forerunner of mercy.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

His core business still is self-promotion.

~ Joe Nocera

Like humility, generosity comes from seeing that everything we have and everything we accomplish comes from God’s grace and God’s love for us… Certainly it is from experiencing this generosity of God and the generosity of those in our life that we learn gratitude and to be generous to others. - God Has a Dream, p. 86.

~ Desmond Tutu