Humility Quotes - Page 47

Humility is the most important quality in the spiritual life. When it is lacking spiritual growth stops.

Humility means you're willing to give someone a bigger slice of the pie.

Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.

Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always great when they are done for God.

Humility is the worst form of conceit.

Humility does not mean weakness. It does not mean timidity. It does not mean fear. A man can be humble and fearless. A man can be humble and courageous.

In some sense we are all hypocrites in transition.

Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.

O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.

In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.

The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.

There is no harder lesson for man to learn than the lesson of humility. It is the rarest of all gifts. It is a very rare thing to find a man or woman that is following closely the footsteps of the Master in meekness and humility.

In order to turn around and do something better, we must first escape the vicious circle of self-righteousness and denial. And that calls for the humility to say "I'm sorry. Please forgive me."

Modesty is the citadel of beauty.

I think what matures us is time, not necessarily our physical bodies. So I think she can probably change as much as human would in the timespan of the show. However, I do think as a human you reach a point where there's a certain amount of humility and acceptance of life and its consequences when you see your own body change and age, and the pounds come or the wrinkles come.

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.

If it is hard to accept a rebuke, even a private one, it is harder still to administer one in loving humility.

Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are.

Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought.

Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?

We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.

I saw that we're all doing the best we can. This is how a lifetime of humility begins.

We may make an oratory of our heart wherein to retire from time to time to converse with Him in meekness, humility, and love. Every one is capable of such familiar conversation with God, some more, some less. He knows what we can do. Let us begin, then.