Humility Quotes - Page 6

Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.

Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.

A tree full of ripened fruits bows down naturally, because of the weight of the fruits and its willingness to make its fruits accessible to others.

It is only with total humility, and in absolute stillness of mind that we can know what indeed we are.

The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.

If God had wanted us to talk more than listen, he would have given us two mouths rather than two ears.

Humility is the only virtue that no devil can imitate. If pride made demons out of angels, there is no doubt that humility could make angels out of demons.

No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.

Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.

Character is more than a man-to-his-God humility, for it involves transparency and accountability to others, not merely a private quest for purity.

[Who owns the patent on this vaccine?] Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?

God, give me a deep humility, a well-guided zeal, a burning love and a single eye, and then let men or devils do their worst!

We don’t discover humility by thinking less of ourselves; we discover humility by thinking less about ourselves.

Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

Do not become a disciple of one who praises himself, in case you learn pride instead of humility.

True intimacy with God always brings humility.

From this point of view, to avoid your strengths and to focus on your weaknesses isn't a sign of diligent humility. It is almost irresponsible. By contrast the most responsible, the most challenging, and, in the sense of being true to yourself, the most honorable thing to do is face up to the strength potential inherent in your talents and then find ways to realize it.

Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.

Gratitude is the beginning of wisdom. Stated differently, true wisdom cannot be obtained unless it is built on a foundation of true humility and gratitude.

Humility, which is a virtue, is always fruitful in good works.

Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.