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Humility Quotes

I had the erroneous conviction that all of history tended toward my birth and would diminish into chaos or inconsequence after I was gone. When you realize that's not so, the proper humility is to defer.

History Humility Chaos You Birth

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.

Charles Spurgeon

Humility Self Right Make Estimate

If every moment is sacred, and If you are amazed and in awe most of the time when you find yourself breathing and not crazy, then you are in a state of constant thankfulness, worship and humility.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Time Moment Yourself Humility Crazy

If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.

Humility Perfect Little Only Would

Nobody likes to lose power or reach a point of humility.

Power Humility Reach Lose Nobody

One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't realise how often you're disrespected until you are surrounded by respect.

Love Respect Time Humility You See

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

Honesty Humility Person Sarcastic

In ethics, there is a humility; moralists are usually righteous.

Humility Ethics Righteous

Wishing to open my mouth, O brethren, and speak on the exalted theme of humility, I am filled with fear, even as a man who understands that he is about to discourse concerning God with the art of his own words. For humility is the raiment of the Godhead.

Isaac of Nineveh

Fear God Art Words Man Humility

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

Myself Humility People Me Someone

Humility is of central importance; I think it's an underappreciated virtue in the contemporary discussion of law and politics.

Politics Humility Law Think Virtue

Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them.

Good Humility You Place Try Humbled

I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.

Success Great Humility World Think

One way to appreciate C.S. Lewis is to see how his Christian humility shaped his life and work.

Life Work Humility Appreciate Way

Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.

Truth Humility Effort Consistency

You have to have a little humility if you're Danish because you're never going to be able to travel outside the country unless you can speak another language.

Sidse Babett Knudsen

Travel Humility Speak Language You

There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.

Humility People Pride Better Nothing

What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself.

Yourself Humility People Listening

It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Truth Time Progress Humility Poverty

One thing that golf teaches you is humility.

Humility Golf You One Thing Thing

I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed, because it's not about you. You are a terminal for a higher power. As soon as you accept that, you can do it forever.

Power Humility Grace You Can Do It

I think that listening to music or creating music is a spiritual undertaking, so the process of creating music, you know, involves listening. It involves sensitivity, it involves humility, you know, and then also it's something which is higher than words.

Music Words Spiritual Humility Think

Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.

Respect Humility Long You Mad Never

Mr. Chairman, delegates. I accept your nomination for President of the United States of America. I do so with humility, deeply moved by the trust you have placed in me. It is a great honor. It is an even greater responsibility.

Great Responsibility Trust Humility

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