Humility Quotes

All of yesterday's ballers are today's road sweepers.

~ Habeeb Akande

Modesty has, and will remain, an alluring trait because where egoism falters, humility conquers.

~ Andy Paula

If you will only consider, you will remember many a person of whom the world never heard and will never hear, whose years have been as full of generosity, loyalty to duty, faith in God, fidelity to every day's work, as those of Franklin or Garfield, Lincoln or Emerson. They, also, have put their hands to the plough and have not looked back. Having made up their minds to what ought to be done, they did not hesitate, did not procrastinate, did not worry or grow anxious, but faithfully performed the duty of the hour. They had faith in Providence, and so did with their might what their hands found to do. They gave, and it was given to them again, full measure, pressed down and running over. They did good, hoping for nothing again, and the reward came in lives full of content; in cheerfulness, peace, and satisfaction.

~ James Clarke

It is beautiful in a picture to wash the disciples’ feet, but the sands of the real desert have no lustre in them to compensate for the servile nature of the occupation.

~ John Henry Newman

False humility is better than no humility at all.

~ Paul Krassner

The author points out strikingly different reactions to calamity. While many passengers of a devastating shipwreck were thankful to be alive, future presidential assassin Charles Guiteau saw his being spared as proof of his exceptionalism rather than of the grace from which he benefited.

~ Candice Millard

In my own book-signings, I find humility. It’s always humbling when people go out of their way to come visit with me and by some of my books.

~ Nicholas Trandahl

Ripples of karmic events are best humbly done in an artistic, significant, unique karmic harvests without any forms of retaliation.

~ Angelica Hopes

The flame of testimony burns brightly when fed with the oil of grace.

~ H.a. Ironside

A smile is a humble hidden treasure everyman has been endowed with that does not reveal itself until it is called for.

~ Seyi Ayoola

Always remember, no matter how big you get in life, God is still bigger; when you feel to be at your lowest point, Satan is still at the bottom.

~ Anthony Liccione

If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear and fanaticism, your religion will always end up worshiping the status quo and protecting your present ego position and personal advantage as if it were God.

~ Richard Rohr

He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.

~ Ernest Hemingway

There is a world of difference between being clever and being right.

~ Ian Driscoll

If you lack the humility to go back and tie up the loose ends in your past, then be prepared to forever be haunted by her ghosts, all of whom will come into your present and your future— staining everything and everyone with their leftover emotional and mental garbage. Humility is the master key that can get you out of all your cages; why do you choose your ego and stay in your prisons?

~ C. Joybell C.

The Marquesa would even have been astonished to learn that her letters were very good, for such authors live always in the noble weather of their own minds and those productions which seem remarkable to us are little better than a day's routine to them.

~ Thornton Wilder

Often it takes outer authority to send us on the path to our own inner authority.

~ Richard Rohr

We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table. We are in danger of seeing philosophers who doubt the law of gravity as being a mere fancy of their own. Scoffers of old time were too proud to be convinced, but these are too humble to be convinced.

~ G.k. Chesterton

Don't kill the game with your 'funk', elevate it with your humility.

~ T.f. Hodge

The narrator finds that as a maturing character grows in stature before her friends that she sees less stature while evaluating herself.

~ Zane Grey

If the opposite of certainty is doubt, humility must lie somewhere between the two

~ Ron Suskind

Life's a short trip. You'll find out.

~ Rodney Dangerfield

The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on - I am not too sure.

~ H.l. Mencken

Certainly all virtues are very dear to God, but humility pleases Him above all the others, and it seems that He can refuse it nothing.

~ Francis De Sales

Confident and courageous leaders have no problems pointing out their own weaknesses and ignorance.

~ Thom S. Rainer

Let us make our way through these low valleys of the humble and little virtues. We shall see in them the roses amid the thorns, charity that shows its beauty among interior and exterior afflictions, the lilies of purity.

~ Francis De Sales

Part of what makes him (laid-back Tim Hudson)an ace is that he would never acknowledge that he is an ace.

~ Joe Simpson

People who have trouble questioning their own country often have trouble admitting fault in themselves, both of which come from insecurity and lack of humility.

~ Bryant Mcgill

For with any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. There comes a certain point in such conditions when only three things are possible: first a perpetuation of Satanic pride, secondly tears, and third laughter.

~ G.k. Chesterton

A man who can own pearls does not bother about shells, and those who aspire to virtue do not trouble themselves over honors.

~ Francis De Sales

The man who does good in doubt must have so much more merit than one who does it in the bright certainty of belief. Other sheep I have which are not of this fold... A warning against the smugness of inherited faith.

~ Morris West

The King of Glory does not reward His servants according to the dignity of their office, but according to the humility and love with which they have exercised it.

~ Francis De Sales

What kind of ministry is that, just talking to people? Criticism directed at Francis Schaeffer's plan to open an obscure spot in the Swiss Alps to those who came with questions.

~ Nancy Pearcey

Don’t settle for helping those who will help you in return or doing a good deed for others to see. Help others without expecting anything back. Even if nobody else cares, God will notice.

~ Dillon Burroughs

Little deeds that proceed from charity please God and have their place among meritorious acts.

~ Francis De Sales

Other priests, he knew, found an intense pleasure in the raw, salty dialect of peasant conversation. They picked up pearls of wisdom and experience over a farmhouse table or a cup of wine in a workingman's kitchen. They talked with equal familiarity to the rough-tongued whores of Trastevere and the polished signori of Parioli. They enjoyed the ribald humor of the fish market as much as the wit of a Cardinal's dinner table. They were good priests too, and they did much good for their people, with a singular satisfaction to themselves.

~ Morris West

The applause of the audience is short-lived. When calls resound for an encore, we are called to direct our attention to our Master.

~ Dillon Burroughs

Thou shalt wear trousers, but they shall fall half down to teach humility over arrogance.

~ Jay Woodman

Those who wish to stand tallest must kneel lowest.

~ Dillon Burroughs

In humility, we find our true calling and our greatest honor.

~ Dillon Burroughs