Humility Quotes

A great man is always willing to be little.

Emerson

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

Thomas Merton

Every person that you meet knows something you don’t; learn from them.

H Jackson Brown Jr

Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.

Jesse Jackson

Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.

Thomas Moore

Humility will open more doors than arrogance ever will.

Zig Ziglar

Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.

Saint Vincent de Paul

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

Confucius

The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility.

T S Eliot

Humility is the proper estimate of oneself.

Charles Spurgeon

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.

C S Lewis

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

Mother Teresa

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

Alexander Pope

Pride is the problem, humility is the answer.

Joyce Meyer

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Diogenes

In reality, humility means nothing other than complete honesty about yourself.

William Countryman

Humility is the surest sign of strength.

Thomas Merton

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

Augustine of Hippo

True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.

Martin Luther

Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.

Theodore Roosevelt

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

Emerson

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Ernest Hemingway

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Harry S Truman

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

Michel de Montaigne

What are the things that you can’t see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love. You can’t see any of those, but they’re the guiding lights of a life.

Jimmy Carter

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

Blaise Pascal

Nobody has ever expected me to be president. In my poor, lean lank face nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting.

Abraham Lincoln

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

Abraham Lincoln

Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

Martin Luther King Jr

Humility, like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.

Thoreau

It takes a big person to do something small.

Joel Osteen

True humility is contentment.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Booker T Washington

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

John Ruskin

Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.

Patrick Süskind

It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.

Rachel Carson

True humility is having the understanding that, even as a small seed, we are still an important part of the greater plan. However, we are not the master planner.

Tanya Copprue

Life is a long lesson in humility.

J M Barrie

Lowliness is the base of every virtue, and he who goes the lowest builds the safest.

Philip James Bailey

Humility has nothing to do with depreciating ourselves and our gifts in ways we know to be untrue. Even "humble" attitudes can be masks of pride. Humility is that freedom from our self which enables us to be in positions in which we have neither recognition nor importance, neither power nor visibility, and even experience deprivation, and yet have joy and delight. It is the freedom of knowing that we are not in the center of the universe, not even in the center of our own private universe.

David F Wells

It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

Jane Austen

Humility is a beautiful centre, from which every other virtue radiates.

Lady Mountcashel

Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.

Madeleine L'engle

Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.

John Chrysostom

He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do, exercises the truest humility.

Charles Caleb Colton

Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are -- of immeasurable stature. That the trees are high and the grasses short is a mere accident of our own foot-rules and our own stature. But to the spirit which has stripped off for a moment its own idle temporal standards the grass is an everlasting forest, with dragons for denizens; the stones of the road are as incredible mountains piled one upon the other; the dandelions are like gigantic bonfires illuminating the lands around; and the heath-bells on their stalks are like planets hung in heaven each higher than the other.

G K Chesterton

Humility is the softening shadow before the stature of Excellence,

And lieth lowly on the ground, beloved and lovely as the violet.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

That which humbles us is always for our good.

J H Evans

Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man, and this immediately, though, of course, only in the case of complete and permanent humility.

Franz Kafka

Humility consists in a low opinion of one's self, and in a contempt of vain glory. He that shines with this noble grace, is a person whose high imaginations have been cast down; not by the force of moral precepts, but by the mighty weapons of the christian warfare. Once he thought he was something, now he sees that he is nothing. Once he was desirous that other men should think highly of him, and he loved to have the preeminence; but now he can, in some sincerity, say, with the royal Psalmist, "Mine heart is not haughty, neither are mine eyes lofty. I have behaved and quieted myself as a child weaned of his mother. My soul is even as a weaned child." Shall we describe him in relation to his neighbor, and to his God?

William McEwen

Humility is a healthy balance between pride and self-devaluation.

J Maurus

Humility is not thinking meanly of yourself; it is simply not thinking of yourself at all.

Warren W Wiersbe

True humility is the certain mark of a bright reason, and elevated soul, as being the natural consequence of them. When we come to have our minds cleared by reason from those thick mists that our disorderly passions cast about them; when we come to discern more perfectly, and consider more nearly, the immense power and goodness, the infinite glory and duration of God; and, to make a comparison between these perfections of his, and our own frailty and weakness, and the shortness and uncertainty of our beings, we should humble ourselves even unto the dust before him.

Wellins Calcott

How happy in his low degree,

How rich in humble poverty, is he,

Who leads a quiet country life;

Discharged of business, void of strife.

John Dryden

If you see any thing in yourself which may make you proud, look a little further, and you will find enough to make you humble.

Wellins Calcott

The artist alone among men knows what true humility means. His reach forever exceeds his grasp. He can never be satisfied with his work. He knows when he has done well, but he knows he has never attained his dream. He knows he never can.

Rheta Childe Dorr

Humility before God is man's true glory.

Charles The Great