Humility Quotes - Page 23

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.

You are happiest when you are most humble. You are most miserable when you are egotistical.

If we learn to accept our imperfections with humor, as the reflection of our very humanity, we will experience humility and tolerance, we will understand that we are already filled with forgiveness, we will see the gift of our lives, the chains will fall away, and we will be free -- free not so much from fear or 'dependence,' but free for love, for life itself.

you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead.

The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.

The less you know, the more you believe.

Doesn’t it honor Him more when His children no longer see themselves only as sinners saved by grace, but now as heirs of God? Isn’t it a greater form of humility to believe Him when He says we are precious in His sight when we don’t feel very precious?

Maturity is humility. It is being big enough to say, "I was wrong." And, when he/she is right, the mature person need not experience the satisfaction of saying, "I told you so."

Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.

Be very humble when you plan so that Krishna is happy with you.

Inspiration comes only to those who seek it with humility toward their own achievements and reverence toward the achievements of God.

Any man or woman who neglects to maintain inward vigilance, and only makes an outward show of holiness in dress, speech, and behavior, is a wretched creature. For they watch the doings of other people and criticize their faults, imagining themselves to be something when in reality they are nothing. In this way they deceive themselves. Be careful to avoid this, and devote yourself inwardly to His likeness by humility, charity, and other spiritual virtues. In this way you will be truly converted to God.

Faith is the champion of Grace, and Love the nurse; but Humility is the beauty of Grace.

Praised be the Lord, who has redeemed me from myself.

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

Green strongly influences the heart and helps alleviate tension. Positive qualities associated with green are generosity, humility, and cooperation. Foods of the green vibration are all green fruits and green vegetables.

Humility, reverence, compassion, forbearance, sacrifice and self-control are the qualities that reveal the outcome of the true education.

Substance of Bhakti is Surrender and Humility.

Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it. -David Richo A rolling stone can gather no moss

There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

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

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that's where humanity is now: about to discover we're not as smart as we thought we were, will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we really are.

Everything that we do affects our fate for better or for worse. The circumstances into which we are born also exert a tremendous influence; we come into the world with debits and credits for which we are not responsible already posted to our account: this teaches us humility.

The people that I admire have a wonderful balance of self-belief and humility.