Quotes About Humility

Writing, for me, means humility. It's a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you're writing honestly.

Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.

No matter how many years you sit doing zazen, you will never become anything special.

Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.

The honest man, though e'er sae poor, Is king o' men, for a' that!

Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.

Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a manly way and say, Sir, I made an honest mistake.

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.

For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

There is nothing I can't live without. I learned this attitude when I was a child.

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.

The humble sinner will sometimes be interpreted as one of the filthiest in the eyes of man yet immersed in the eyes of God, and this is due to the volition of honesty regarding his own corruption.

When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.

What is more arrogant than honesty?

I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end of the day.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors.

I sought neither preeminence, glory, nor riches; my honor was that Jesus Christ should reign.

Someone has said that the marks of a strong church are wet eyes, bent knees, and a broken heart. We'll never be powerful until we let God be God and jealously guard His honor.

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

When I had the honor to be a second lieutenant, I ate dry bread, but I never let anyone know that I was poor.

Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.

Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt.