Humility Quotes

Ability to laugh at evil, to relativize symbols without dismissing them is usually a sign of a rather healthy person. Puritans and reformers can never laugh.

~ Richard Rohr

I feels sorrier for him than anybody I knows. I expect he done read more books than any white man in this town. He done read more books and he done worried about more things. He full of books and worrying. He done lost God and turned his back on religion. His troubles come down just to that.

~ Carson Mccullers

श्रेयान्स्वधर्मो विगुणः परधर्मात्स्वनुष्ठितात्।स्वधर्मे निधनं श्रेयः परधर्मो भयावहः॥॥३- ३५॥`Better one’s own duty, be it humble,Than that of another – else you’ll stumble,Better to risk death at the post of duty,Than perils of intrusion on others surely.’3. 35

~ Munindra Misra

Who among us is greater? True humility and servant leadership is a rare and elusive attribute these days however the greatest example of this spirit is beautifully documented in John 13, verses 3-5 “Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God, rose from supper and laid aside His garments, took a towel and girded Himself. After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded.” Just moments before this humble undertaking His disciples were arguing with each other about who among them was greater. This simple but powerful example of strength in humility should be our pattern in how we treat and consider others. Regardless of our stature, our positions in our communities and within our own families, true greatness begins and ends with a servant’s heart and a humble spirit. I submit to you, the greatest among us are those who are willing to put others before themselves. ~Jason Versey

~ Jason Versey

It was easier to be the headstrong monk, a boy on a long-shot mission, before he actually won anything. With the prize in hand, he realized his single-minded drive came across as aloof cockiness; his painful martyrdom certainly looked like self-nomination for sainthood. He's not sure he can keep up this exhausting, aw-shucks façade for much longer.

~ Ron Suskind

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is true even of the pious brethren who carry the gospel to foreign parts.

~ H.l. Mencken

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.

~ T.s. Eliot

Right words make all of us feel falsely important. Right action keeps all of us forever beginners.

~ Richard Rohr

. . . the humblest, and at the same time most balanced and capacious, praised most, while the crank, misfits and malcontents praised least.

~ C.s. Lewis

Great leaders are the first to say, “I was wrong. Let’s make a change.

~ Beth Ramsay

There’s nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility

~ Marcus Aurelius

I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that it is authentic.

~ Richard Rohr

For the Javanese...the purpose of knowledge (kaweruh) is love, not ambition or cleverness. Knowledge comes from caring enough to suffer and learn.

~ Therese Walsh

If I have learned one thing in the years of my existence, one nugget of wisdom from having lived in the midst of disputations over faith and the nature of the world, it is that everything ends. This is both the blessing and the punishment of God upon the foolish tribe that calls itself man. We can embrace the end or we can weep, but the ghost of time closes all doors with a finality that can never be gainsaid.

~ Kamran Pasha

Humility and Trustworthiness are not rooted only in Presentation, Voice modulation or Nice Jorganbut in Actions and Intentions that speak louder than you do and they last longer

~ Venkat Gandhi

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that's where humanity is now: about to discover we're not as smart as we thought we were, will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we really

~ Marianne Williamson

Pride is not the opposite of shame, but it's source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.

~ General Iroh

Never miss an opportunity to be truly and deeply humiliated! The shame will carve you down to an individual of exquisite layering, and in the process, etch within you the arcs of exceptional narrative.

~ Ashim Shanker

We have no need to learn to think much of ourselves, to care for ourselves, to consider our own needs, wants, and desires. We already do that far too much. The problem is getting us to think of others, to have a lowliness of mind that springs from humility and love.

~ Nancy Wilson

'Tragedy admires man. Comedy feels a bit sorry for him.' We think we are kings or queens, masters of the universe or at least our own destiny. We forget that a foot may crush us, or that the wind may knock us down. We are not in control. We are subject to gas and sloughing skin and dirty pores. Most of our joints will eventually fail us. We have big brains which we can imagine great things, but we can't really get off the ground. It's like we have wings but we can't fly.

~ Debbie Blue

Cheerfulness means a contented spirit, a pure heart, a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and ~ charity, a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.

~ William Makepeace Thackeray

Pride is a human nature and it's good for people to be proud of themselves, achievements, etc. but too much of anything is not healthy. Humble is pride exhibited through humility, so be humble and prideful about being humble.

~ Uzoma Nnadi

Have a heart which does not trample down simplicity and humility.

~ Angelica Hopes

We all have the same Christ dwelling within, but revelation of some new need will lead us spontaneously to trust Him to live out His life in in that particular.

~ Watchman Nee

What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us, it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.

~ Monica Baldwin

True humility is being able to accept criticisms as graciously as we accept compliments.

~ Sabrina Newby

I laboured hard at my book, without allowing it to interfere with the punctual discharge of my newspaper duties; and it came out and was very successful. I was not stunned by the praise which sounded in my ears, notwithstanding that I was keenly alive to it, and thought better of my own performance, I have little doubt, than anybody else did. It has always been in my observation of human nature, that a man who has any good reason to believe in himself never flourishes himself before the faces of other people in order that they may believe in him. For this reason, I retained my modesty in very self-respect; and the more praise I got, the more I tried to deserve.

~ Charles Dickens

Curious that a man as selfish as he should be offering himself to the service of dead dogs. There must be other, more productive ways of giving oneself to the world, or to an idea of the world... But there are other people to do these things - the animal welfare thing, the social rehabilitation thing, even the Byron thing. He saves the honour of corpses because there is no one else stupid enough to do it.

~ J.m. Coetzee

Humble is pride exhibited through humility.

~ Uzoma Nnadi

Writers who think THEY are being criticized when only that writing is being criticized are beyond a teacher's reach. Writing can only be learned when a writer coldly separates himself from what he has written and looks at it with the objectivity of a plumber examining a newly piped bathroom to see if he got all the joints tight.

~ William Zinsser

PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration.

~ Albert Einstein

I will never have greater respect than for the man that realizes he was wrong and graciously admits it without a single excuse.

~ Dan Pearce

Shamed and enraged, I sit by the side of the road and cry.Eclipsed by a sense of disgrace, my emotions feel momentarily stifled and disconnected. Instead of anger, I feel dishonored and exposed. I cannot even formulate my thoughts, much less speak them. My integrity and humility have been violated. I have only my own indignation to spur me on.

~ Holly A. Smith

Being a fool for God was not merely alright but liberating.

~ Joy Davidman

Give me the lowest place: not that I dareAsk for that lowest place, but Thou hast diedThat I might live and shareThy glory by Thy side.Give me the lowest place: of if for meThat lowest place too high, make one more lowWhere I may sit and seeMy God and love Thee so.

~ Christina Rossetti

Humble me so I do what is right. Break me so I cling to You. Expose me so my motives stay pure.

~ Alisa Hope Wagner

[T]he more man accepts his limitations, the better is he enabled to know things truly.

~ Rousas John Rushdoony

True humility isn’t thinking less of yourself. It’s thinking of yourself exactly the way God thinks of you, not more and not less.

~ Praying Medic

There won't be any biographies of me, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken farm do not make for exciting copy.

~ Flannery O'connor

If you can grasp those two truths—you are made in His image and dependent on Him—you will discover a great dignity and at the same time a profound humility.

~ Colin S. Smith