Humility Quotes - Page 61

I want to be famous so I can be humble about being famous. What good is my humility when I am stuck in this obscurity?

Skepticism is forever whispering in your ears. You're very new at this. You may be mistaken. You've been wrong before.

It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred; but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how can we bear it?

...one doubts existence of free will [because] every action determined by heredity, constitution, example of others or teaching of others." "This view should teach one profound humility, one deserves no credit for anything...nor ought one to blame others.

Humility is not self deprecating, rather it is the quiet internal confidence allowing you to accept things as they are, especially yourself; that epiphany opens the way to personal greatness.

What he says, even on his knees, about his own sinfulness is all parrot talk. At bottom, he still believes he has run up a very favorable credit-balance in the Enemy's ledger by allowing himself to be converted, and thinks that he is showing great humility and condescension in going to church with these 'smug', commonplace neighbors at all.

And that is enough to raise your thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond belief, learns at last that she has pleased Him whom she was created to please. There will be no room for vanity then. She will be free from the miserable illusion that it is her doing. With no taint of what we should now call self-approval she will most innocently rejoice in the thing that God has made her to be, and the moment which heals her old inferiority complex forever will also drown her pride… Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.

The most powerful tools of revolution through intention are humility and consciousness.

The expansion of your own consciousness, love capacity, humility and compassion - this is the path; this is the way.

So, to get to play somebody who was insisting on it, in spite of all the evidence was very liberating and exciting. It went quite deep. I suppose I reference a kindness and humility that I would have seen in my parents' generation, a little bit more than now.

Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble.

True humility is not in the absence of confidence but strength restrained.

Humility means one does not impose his conceptions upon others and he is fully dependent on the mercy of the Lord.

Humility takes a supply of supernatural strength that comes only to those strong enough to admit weakness

It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.

Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.

Alas, I know if I ever became truly humble, I would be proud of it.

The greatest things I have learned from Coach Dungy would have to be humility and consistency. He truly leads by example, and he does it consistently. This allows people to really see his faith every single day, and that's the most important thing.

For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to beg pardon for his excellences and merits from those who have none? For whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.

God's world is a good place. The one thing not good in it is we. How little justice and humility there is in us. How little we understand true patriotism!

I'm so humble it's crazy. I'm like the Kanye West of humility.

There is no gardening without humility

Your brilliance comes from your spirit. To deny it is arrogance. To accept it is humility.