Quotes About Humility

Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation.

The highest honor in the church is not government but service.

Oh that I was lowly in heart! Honor and dishonor, good report and evil report would then be alike, and prove a furtherance to me in my Christian cause.

Christ honors our submission even when our only motivation is obedience.

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

Knowing honor, but clinging to disgrace, you become the valley of the world.

There is nothing so small but that we may honor God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands.

Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.

The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it.

Because he (the Sage) demands no honor, he will never be dishonored.

I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.

Know honor, Yet keep humility. Be the valley of the universe! Being the valley of the universe, Ever true and resourceful, Return to the state of the uncarved block.

Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor.

He is truly great that is little in himself, and that maketh no account of any height of honors.

The sage honors his part of the settlement, but does not exact his due from others.

Total openness to serving others is our hallmark, it alone is our title of honour!

I had the habit of not accepting prizes or honors, but always, not out of humility, but because I don't like them.

Maybe it's a little crazy, but it's good to have it, but I just don't like [prizes or honors].

I had the habit of not accepting prizes or honors, but always, not out of humility, but because I don't like them. Maybe it's a little crazy, but it's good to have it, but I just don't like them.

Of course you are unworthy. But when do you hope to be worthy? You will be no more worthy at the end than at the beginning. God alone is worthy of Himself, He alone can make us worthy of Him.

I hope never to see the day that I cannot admit having made a mistake.

I have lived as plain Mr. Jinnah and I hope to die as plain Mr. Jinnah. I am very much averse to any title or honours and I will be more than happy if there was no prefix to my name.

I hope I'm remembered as the king of the world, the noble man who united all the nations of the earth. But that probably won't happen.

I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean.