Top Humility Quotes

If you have the blessings of Abraham in your life, then you should also have his obedience, humility and ability to submit to others

One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered.

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.

Of course, if one does not fully trust the promise of God's Kingdom, he will have a hard time taking risks and making sacrifices in this life. A gospel centered around the temporal self - fleeting hap...

Being big enough to know when you are small, makes you gigantic. Lack of humility is not necessarily the down fall of great relationships, it is the slippery slide ego and pride take you down that blo...

We must steel ourselves against utopias and be content with a slightly better state.

You can become the greatest personality in your community by developing the sagacity of humility, teachability, prosperity-mentality and accountability.

It's better to find success through God, than finding it on one's own merits; some who usually find their own success become boastful, where through God it's with gratitude.

Those people who shoot endless time-lapse films of unfurling roses and tulips have the wrong idea. They should train their cameras instead on the melting of pack ice, the green filling of ponds, the t...

She was torn between her customer service training and her youthful certitude.

It is a sign of intellectual maturity to always crawl to conclusions.

Say you could view a time-lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving through light, an infinite storm of beauty. The beginning is swaddled in mists, blasted by random blin...

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.

You have two choices in life when it comes to truthful observations by others that anger you: You can be ashamed and cover it up by letting your pride take you in the extreme opposite direction, in or...

Pride is pride not because it hates being wrong, but because it loves being wrong: To hate being wrong is to change your opinion when you are proven wrong; whereas pride, even when proven wrong, decid...

The best writers I've read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much.

Some things sound better if they don't come from you.

Never curse a fall. The ground is where humility lives.

What is absolute humility (param vinaya)? It is on the one who has not disrespected anyone in the slightest! Absolute humility lies where there is no dispute, no difference of opinion or any law. Law...

You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.

I would rather lie facedown on the ground and use my body as a bridge, than stand proud and tall and use my body as a wall.