Top humility Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of humility quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Rachel Carson
Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
- Rachel Carson
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Image of Aberjhani
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.
- Aberjhani
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Image of Pope John Paul II
Do not be afraid to be holy! Have the courage and humility to present yourselves to the world determined to be holy, since full, true freedom is born from holiness.
- Pope John Paul II
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Image of John Selden
Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.
- John Selden
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Image of Moby
I like the humility that comes from being hated. Hopefully some humility and compassion comes out of that.
- Moby
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Image of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Image of Max Beerbohm
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.
- Max Beerbohm
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Image of Farid al-Din Attar
The fruit of love's great tree is poverty; Whoever knows this knows humility.
- Farid al-Din Attar
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Image of Gary Smalley
A KEY TO BEGIN FORGIVING: Become soft and tender with the person. The first step is to become soft in your mind and spirit. Lower your voice and relax your facial expressions. This reflects honor and humility; and as Proverbs 15:1 suggests, "A gentle answer turns away anger."
- Gary Smalley
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Image of Francois Truffaut
Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.
- Francois Truffaut
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Image of Wei Wu Wei
It is only with total humility, and in absolute stillness of mind that we can know what indeed we are.
- Wei Wu Wei
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Image of Eric Ludy
The fire to pursue God, the zeal to know God, and the humility to allow God to do whatever He pleases with our lives.
- Eric Ludy
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Image of Eric Ludy
Humility is measured by how quickly you can admit that you are wrong.
- Eric Ludy
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Image of Stanley Hauerwas
Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love.
- Stanley Hauerwas
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Image of Flannery O'Connor
[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .
- Flannery O'Connor
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Image of Thomas Watson, Jr.
Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed.
- Thomas Watson, Jr.
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Image of St. Catherine of Siena
When it seems that God shows us the faults of others, keep on the safer side-it may be that your judgment is false. On your lips let silence abide. And any vice that you may ascribe to others, ascribe at once to them and yourself, in true humility. If that vice really exists in a person, he will correct himself better, seeing himself so gently understood, and will say of his own accord the thing that you would have said to him.
- St. Catherine of Siena
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Image of Fulton J. Sheen
Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.
- Fulton J. Sheen
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Image of Jonas Salk
[Who owns the patent on this vaccine?] Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?
- Jonas Salk
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Image of Kenneth Patchen
Greatness and Truth can never be in danger from these murdering wretches. To perform one's duty, be it now, be it clean, and be it done with humility… A man is a sacred thing. ANY ACTION OR THOUGHT WHICH INJURES THE HUMAN IMAGINATION IS EVIL.
- Kenneth Patchen
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Image of Starhawk
Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.
- Starhawk
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Image of Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
No one will learn anything at all, unless one first will learn humility.
- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
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Image of Thomas Nagel
Humans are addicted to the hope for a final reckoning, but intellectual humility requires that we resist the temptation to assume that tools of the kind we now have are in principle sufficient to understand the universe as a whole.
- Thomas Nagel
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Image of Sarah MacLean
You cheated!” He looked at her, wide-eyed with feigned outrage. “I beg your pardon. If you were a man, I would call you out for that accusation.” “And I assure you, my lord, that I would ride forth victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness.” “Are you quoting the Bible to me?” “Indeed,” she said primly, the portrait of piousness. “While gambling.” “What better location to attempt to reform one such as you?
- Sarah MacLean
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Image of Louis IX of France
In prosperity, give thanks to God with humility and fear lest by pride you abuse God's benefits and so offend him.
- Louis IX of France
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Image of Theodore C. Sorensen
Public opinion rarely considers the needs of the next generation or the history of the last. It is frequently hampered by myths and misinformation, by stereotypes and shibboleths, and by an inate resistance to innovation.
- Theodore C. Sorensen
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Image of Peter Kreeft
Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.
- Peter Kreeft
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Image of Harold Nicolson
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.
- Harold Nicolson
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Image of Simone Weil
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
- Simone Weil
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Image of Maureen O'Hara
To be part of the creation, I must act humbly. I'll take that over a goddess any day!
- Maureen O'Hara
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Image of Victoria Alexander
It must be quite difficult, concealing your superior male qualities behind a mask of feigned humility.” Why, Gillian, it’s that very ability that makes us so superior.
- Victoria Alexander
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Image of Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Original love never appears in pure form, but in manifold veils and shapes, such as confidence, humility, reverence, serenity, asfaithfulness and modesty, as gratefulness; but primarily as longing and wistful melancholy.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Image of Dan B. Allender
To experience brokenness and humiliation all you have to do is lead.
- Dan B. Allender
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Image of Harry S. Truman
It doesn't matter how big a ranch you own or how many cows you brand, the size of your funeral is still gonna depend on the weather.
- Harry S. Truman
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Image of Spencer W. Kimball
Humility is the beginning virtue of all exaltation.
- Spencer W. Kimball
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Image of Tucker Max
The hardest lesson I've had to learn in my life is that my intelligence is inversely correlated to my humility. The more I thought I knew, the less I actually knew.
- Tucker Max
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Image of Pope Benedict XVI
Hope is practiced through the virtue of patience, which continues to do good even in the face of apparent failure, and through the virtue of humility, which accepts God's mystery and trusts him even at times of darkness.
- Pope Benedict XVI
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Image of Radhanath Swami
Whoever we are, wherever we are, however we are, whatever our condition is, there is no impediment to attaining the perfection of life-if we are humble & sincere.
- Radhanath Swami
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Image of Sheldon Whitehouse
How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean up our mess? Hope for a nanny God, who will with a miracle grant us amnesty from our folly - thats not aligned with either history or the text of the Bible.
- Sheldon Whitehouse
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Image of Alan K. Simpson
Those who travel the high road of humility are not troubled by heavy traffic.
- Alan K. Simpson
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Image of Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.
- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
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Image of Andrew Murray
Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.
- Andrew Murray
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Image of Andrew Murray
Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.
- Andrew Murray
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Image of Andrew Murray
Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God.
- Andrew Murray
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Image of Andrew Murray
Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil.
- Andrew Murray
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Image of Andrew Murray
The root of all virtue and grace, of all faith and acceptable worship, is that we know that we have nothing but what we receive, and bow in deepest humility to wait upon God for it.
- Andrew Murray
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Image of Andrew Murray
Humility is simply the disposition which prepares the soul for living on trust.
- Andrew Murray
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Image of Pindar
Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.
- Pindar
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Image of Frances Moore Lappé
For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and humility.
- Frances Moore Lappé
Collection: Humility