Meekness Quotes

Any man who behaves arrogantly with what little he knows, or claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing. Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek.

~ Suzy Kassem

There is a secret a person with great knowledge discovers along the path to truth. That is, the more doors you open to the mysteries, the smaller you feel. And because you begin to feel smaller and smaller until your ego disappears, the more humble you become. Therefore, any man who behaves arrogantly with what little he knows, or claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing. Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek.

~ Suzy Kassem

Humility is the fundamental principle that builds up greatness. Arrogance on the other hand never brings anything good. When you are humble, you’ll learn to become better.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You can’t accept correction when you are not humble to listen.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The sea is as desolate and barren as it is fertile and life-giving. It is cold and dismal, yet bold and spirited. Sometimes imperious and conquering, other times gentle and meek. But it is always mysterious. Those mysteries hold many secrets. One has but to listen and watch to discover them

~ Jocelyn Murray

The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Humility is by far the most spiritual virtue of the lot. The only way by which one may cease obsessing over himself is to wholly step outside his flesh. But who could do this by himself? And who would really want to under his natural pretense? And even if somehow he could and he succeeded, would not it be artificial? Would not he seem far too aware of his own talents of achieving humility for it to be such? Alternatively, he would need a distraction, something else to love; it is not that the Humbleman thinks poorly of himself, nor highly for that matter, but rather he does not think of himself at all - and this is because he is too busy loving something or someone else to do it. For the humility of this kind 'rears its head' as the most love-driven and free, spiritual of virtues; whereas its opposite, pride, the most self-imprisoning human vice.

~ Criss Jami

One should preach not from one's rational mind but rather from the heart. Only that which is from the heart can touch another heart. One must never attack or oppose anyone. If he who preaches must tell people to keep away from a certain kind of evil, he must do so meekly and humbly, with fear of God.

~ Thaddeus Of Vitovnica

Don't confuse one leader's bluster for muster or another leader's meekness for weakness.

~ Orrin Woodward

Do not mistake a leader's meekness for weakness.

~ Orrin Woodward

Stay at peace with everyone you meet and hold no grudge with anyone for any reason.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

No matter how kind you are, always expect a few imbeciles.

~ Criss Jami

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.

~ George Eliot

A graceful heart is a virtue of the meek.

~ Suzy Kassem

The greatness of the man's power is the measure of his surrender.

~ William Booth

Flag up your courage high and your fears will salute it in humility. Your fears are like walls without foundations, they are afraid to go down and hence pretend to be strong! Exercise Courage!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Life occasionally humbles us by making us turned on by someone whom we turn off.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

~ Helen Keller

My father believes with his entire soul that the meek shall inherit the earth. My children will inherit the earth but they will not be meek.

~ Allan Dare Pearce

The way of the world isn't the strong devouring the weak, but the weak deceiving and poisoning and whispering in the ears of the strong until they become weak, too.

~ N.k. Jemisin

A fool mistakes meekness for weakness and a quiet tongue for an idle mind.

~ R.a. Mathis

Without opposition, there could be no creation. All life would cease without resistance. Emotions also have their polar opposites: attraction – repulsion, love – hate, aggression – meekness, and mercy – callousness.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Jehovah chose to do great things through me. I lay my life in total humility never to take the Glory that comes from doing His great work… It all belongs to Him

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Sir Thomas More was a victim of injustice and irony. Generously and meekly, just as he was about to be martyred, he said: Paul . . . was present, and consented to the death of St. Stephen, and kept their clothes that stoned him to death, and yet be they [Stephen and Paul] now both twain Holy Saints in heaven, and shall continue there friends for ever, so I verily trust and . . . pray, that though your lordships have now here in earth been judges to my condemnation, we may yet hereafter in heaven merrily all meet together, to our everlasting salvation.

~ Neal A. Maxwell

Your own humility endorses your integrity!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Choose to be at peace with yourself and you will never have any battle to lose. Find yourself every reason and season to share your peace with others!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You've to close down your umbrella when you are under a canopy. Drop your pride, give praise to God!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Humble yourself before the Lord and he will lift you high. People who are gentle, humble and able always have a great ending no matter how small and where obscured they have started!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

This is God's beauty!The Elegant nature of Esther,The Meek nature of Moses,The Pius nature of Paul,The Passionate nature of Peter,The Just nature of Jesus and thenThe wise nature of you!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

O Holy Spirit, give me a simple heart which will not retire within itself to savor its own sorrows, a heart magnanimous in giving itself, easily moved to compassion, a faithful, generous heart, which does not forget any favor received nor hold resentment for any injuries done to it.

~ Leonce De Grandmaison

He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.

~ William Shakespeare

Make no mistake about it, no matter how kind, meek, humble and soft your giving heart is — you are a warrior!

~ Bryant Mcgill

Uncommon success is found on the spiritual plane; you can't get there through common convention or following others. Hard work is not enough; many work slavishly-hard for little reward. Intelligence is insufficient; how many educated and brilliant people there are who fail utterly and completely. Goodness is not enough; how many meek and good souls are tilled into the earth like manure by demigods to fertilize their golden crops. There is something more — it is the unseen essential, and everyone has access to it.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Honor, More charged, 'is the religion of tragedy.' Emotions such as love, hate, ambition, pride, and jealousy, 'form a dazzling system of worldly morality,' which contradicts 'the spirit of that religion whose characteristics are charity, meekness, peaceableness, longsuffering, gentleness, forgiveness.

~ Karen Swallow Prior

When a man truly sees himself, he knows nobody can say anything about him that is too bad.

~ D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Humility is the nearly impossible task of being more concerned with our own sins that we are with the sins of others.

~ Trevor Hammack

I read them (articles TR wrote on his honeymoon) all over to Edith and her corrections and help were most valuable to me.

~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

It hurt to think that a boy would not have him at his value of himself.

~ Richard Llewellyn

Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. -Oct 1986

~ Neal A Maxwell

Who cares who's right or wrong when the last word is a kind apology?

~ Richelle E. Goodrich