Top Humility Quotes

It is not your talents that make you great, but your decisions.

I mean it takes a certain kind of maturity to live in the South these days. You don't have it yet, but you have a shadow of the beginnings of it. You haven't the humbleness of mind-" "I thought the fe...

Humility Definition

(n.) The state or quality of being humble; freedom from pride and arrogance; lowliness of mind; a modest estimate of one's own worth; a sense of one's own unworthiness through imperfection and sinfulness; self-abasement; humbleness.

(n.) An act of submission or courtesy.

to understand the real reasons to uphold humility, know your real roots, remember death and study the masses

The path to wisdom is paved with humility.

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.

The sun announces its presence with light, not words; do likewise.

Folly is a child of power.

Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly. This has always been the instinct of Christendom, and especially the instinct of Christian art. Remember how Fra Angelico represented all his a...

What have I to prove, and to whom, and why? I'm keen enough to want nothing more than to live a simple, humble, unfettered life.

There are so many things we expect God to do: lead us, bring good people into our life, give us a life of abundance, make us happy, fix our problems, fix other people, triumph over our enemies, etc. H...

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...

The only competition in art is the search for truth. No matter who gets there first, we all win.

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotio...

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

dear little baby of the folks I work for, I got a present for you .. my whole damn life! I'm handin' it over to you & your ma & pa. if you got no money to pay, I wanna stay anyhow, my pleasure is to w...

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

Love yourself first to fill your heart with bliss. Now give it away with humility, love, and gratitude.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,The proper study of mankind is Man.Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,A being darkly wise and rudely great:With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side...

If you ask an Irishman for directions, he might be quick to answer, Well if I were going there, I would not start here.

Humility is not weakness but a quality of strength.