Quotes About Humility

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.

No harm comes to an honest man who minds his own business and knows his place.

He had a favorite sentence which he always used to conclude his harangues on such matters: No harm comes to an honest man who minds his own business and knows his place.

If stupid people didn't insist on thinking they were smart, the world would be a lot simpler.

Many people cannot stop long enough to listen - especially when they become successful and all the people around them are being obsequious and pretending to hang on their every word.

Sometimes it also helps to have a bit less pride.

As President Lincoln in his final days acknowledged, the only way to win and preserve a peace is to afford the loser some dignity.

In my kingdom, on the other hand, a man becomes a great one, and a ruler, by being first the servant of those over whom he is to bear rule. In other states, they rule whose privilege it is to be ministered unto; in the divine commonwealth, they rule who account it a privilege to minister.

As He said to Peter in express words, "If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me;" so He says to them all in effect, though not in words,"If ye wash not each other, if ye refuse to serve one another in love, ye have again no part with me." This is a hard saying; for if it be difficult to believe in the humiliation of Christ, it is still more difficult to humble ourselves.

And the gods did not kill for hubris-for hubris, they let you live long enough to learn.

The freedom to imagine that as yet unimaginable work in front of others, moving them to still more action you can't imagine, that is the point of writing, to me. You may think it is humility to imagine your work doesn't matter. It isn't. Much the way you don't know what a writer will go on to write, you don't know what a reader, having read you, will do.

The road to the mountain of holiness first passes through the valley of humility.

Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?

Self-confidence is not the temper which God uses for His instruments. He works with 'bruised reeds,' and breathes His strength into them. It is when a man says 'I can do nothing,' that he is fit for God to employ. 'When I am weak, then I am strong.' Moses

Lord and Master of my life, Take from me the spirit of sloth, despair, lust of power, and idle talk.* But give rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience, and love to Thy servant.* Yea, O Lord and King, Grant me to see my own transgressions, and not to judge my brother, For blessed art Thou, unto ages of ages. Amen.* *

At every trifle, scorn to take offence; that always shows great pride, or little sense

Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.

At ev'ry trifle scorn to take offense.

But where's the man who counsel can bestow,Still pleas'd to teach, and yet not proud to know?

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

To err is human

Averse alike to flatter, or offend; Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.