Quotes About Humility

Before you try to take a speck out of your brother's eye, make sure you don't have a big piece of wood in your own eye, obstructing your vision, Jesus suggested.

there was nothing, not a thing! about the country that made a man feel Big And Important. If anything it made a man feel dwarfed, and about as important as one of the fish-Indians living down on the clamflats. Important? Why, there was something about the whole blessed country that made a soul feel whipped before he got started.

Common sense is a combination of experience, training, humility, wit, and intelligence.

Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.

Worship is at heart a person offered to God, claiming no rights, making no more selfish demands than a dead man does, but living fully, richly and wholly to God and by His power.

If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.

I'm not into power for the sake of it.

Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.

Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God.

My power will be in humility.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself - to serve.

The oars game me power but also taught me humility.

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

I know God is in charge. Not me, I'm nothing. I wouldn't be anything except for the power of the spirit of God.

Use your power gently.

I don't hate things, but I'm turned off by arrogance. I also don't like power for the sake of power.

I think there's a lot of power in admitting that you don't know everything.

I'm not God, don't intend to be and hope I never have that much power.

We are always at the mercy of powers greater than us, even when our power is at its highest level!

I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power.