Humility Quotes

A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didn't know.

~ Tom Clancy

The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph into arrogance that Death loves to prove unfounded.

~ Dean Koontz

A commander's pride got his soldiers dead.

~ Tom Clancy

Students in the school of prayer never graduate from the school of the Gospel.

~ C.j. Mahaney

We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinions because we very often differ from ourselves.

~ Samuel Johnson

We never move on from the cross. We only get a more profound understanding of the cross.

~ C.j. Mahaney

It is vital that we are equipped with the humility to understand that changing the world and keeping innovation alive require that we change ourselves.

~ Whitney Johnson

Excellence will give you the recognition you crave for, but humility will keep you standing longer than expected.

~ Rebecca Edmund

True knowledge should not produce pride; it should produce humility...Because the more you know, the more you know how much you don't know.

~ Mark Batterson

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

~ Rick Warren

Abilene had gone from boomtown to Bible Belt, from whorehouses to schoolmarms, without any of the intervening phases.

~ David Brooks

Her characters tend to err when they reject the grubby and complex circumstances of everyday life for abstract and radical notions. They thrive when they work within the rooted spot, the concrete habit, the particular reality of their town and family.

~ David Brooks

Yet the human heart is disheartened by the most unreasonable self-judgments, because even when we take on giants, we too often confuse failure with fault, which I know too well. The only way back from such a bleak despondency is to shape humiliation into humility, to strive always to triumph over the darkness while never forgetting that the honor and the beauty are more in striving than in winning. When triumph at last comes, our efforts alone could not have won the day without that grace which surpasses all understanding and which will, if we allow it, imbue our lives with meaning.

~ Dean Koontz

I know I have this judgmental side that I'm often fighting against. But today I recognized the depths of my assumptions about people. What I envision is nothing remotely similar to the reality. Humility hurts. Coming home is disturbing.

~ Cindy Mccormick Martinusen

Some people are so impoverished all they have is gold.

~ Michelle Moran

There is pride, too, though - pride that he has done it alone. That his daughter is so curious, so resilient. There is the humility of being a father to someone so powerful, as if he were only a narrow conduit for another, greater thing. That's how it feels right now, he thinks, kneeling beside her, rinsing her hair: as though his love for his daughter will outstrip the limits of his body. The walls could fall away, even the whole city, and the brightness of that feeling would not wane.

~ Anthony Doerr

Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis.

~ Thomas Merton

Ego, being love's kryptonite; two souls must be on the same page of humility.

~ T.f. Hodge

After Galileo, Einstein and even Freud, we try to hang onto a pathetic sort of significance on this planet and in this universe, that we are in some way more special than anything else. Our supreme arrogance that in some way the world was created for us has neither scientific nor spiritual reality.

~ David Brandon

Humility cannot be taught by propaganda, though slavery can. Shouting for humility is a form of arrogance. One of my most abiding recollections is of a priest at a religious occasion once roaring, in the most threatening way imaginable: ‘O our Lord God, we most humbly pray…!’Real humility is not always the same as apparent humility. Remember that fighting against self-conceit is still fighting: and that it will tend to suppress it temporarily. It does not cure anything.Remember, too, that humility itself does not bring an automatic reward: it is a means to an end. It enables a person to operate in a certain manner.

~ Idries Shah

Christ-as always, the model-never sat back, crossed his arms, and dismissed the annoying, the troublesome, or the unpromising. He never name-called, never judged, never treated a single person with contempt. Christ talked to everybody, he mingled with everybody, he shared his message with everybody, and he also loved everybody. So don't count the cost with anybody either. We don't waste our time with people who don't want what we have to offer. But if they do, one form of martyrdom is to give a listening ear or an understanding smile to all comers.

~ Heather King

The Oracle at Delphi contained three maxims emblematic of Greek life. Know yourself. Nothing in excess. and, Offer a guarantee and disaster threatens.

~ Anthony Everitt

The factor that made him so powerful was also his greatest liability.

~ Peter Heather

Old men want to feel that the experience which has come with their years is valuable, that their advice is valuable, that they possess a sagacity that could be obtained only through experience— a sagacity that could be of use to young men if only young men would ask.

~ Robert A. Caro

There's no such thing as a mistake, really. It's just an opportunity to do something else.

~ Ralph Steadman

[T]he road to character is built by confronting your own weakness.

~ David Brooks

It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure) surrender he continues to serve and carry out petty orders in loyal acquiescence.

~ Criss Jami

Advice saves you time. If you ask anyone over fifty, which is more important, time or money, they will ALWAYS tell you time.

~ Douglas Copeland

Those that would attain wisdom, prefer the empty stadium.Those who wish to appear wise,prefer it full.

~ Tom Althouse

No person is great in isolation. It takes many hands to shape a life. Denial would mean conceit, and conceit is not the same as self-respect.

~ Sweety Shinde

We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom.

~ Michel De Montaigne

If you're a boss, and not a leader, your time is limited.

~ T.f. Hodge

The toughest thing worth losing is Pride.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Bob Dylan's Christianity has been allusive, idiosyncratic, and never the sort to place him on anyone's side in any Kulturkampf.

~ Christopher Caldwell

Why is it that self-confidence is so often cocky and self-assured so often selfish? Neither has to be true. Having confidence doesn’t require being superior over another and being self-assured doesn’t require taking advantage of another.

~ Charles F. Glassman

When man comes into the presence of God he will find, whether he wishes it or not, that all those things which seemed to make him so different from the men of other times, or even from his earlier self, have fallen off. He is back where he always was, where every man always is.

~ C.s. Lewis

Entrepreneur, stay hungry, stay humble & stay hopeful.

~ Onyi Anyado

Perhaps when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Study cannot happen until we are subject to the subject.

~ Richard J. Foster

True service is a lifestyle. It acts from the ingrained patterns of living. It springs spontaneously to meet human need.

~ Richard J. Foster