Quotes About Humility

I don't need to have the most, be the best, or reach the top. It is okay to pursue a life marked by obscurity and simplicity. It doesn't matter what I own or how I'm perceived.

Love God, love people. Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly. Treat people as you want to be treated. If you want to be great, be a servant.

We can't deliver folks from their pits, but we can sure get in there with them until God does. Live long enough and it becomes clear that stuff is not the stuff of life. People are. We need each other, so we probably ought to practice radical grace, because our well-flaunted opinions are cold companions when real life hits.

I don't like when people minimize their gifts. There is a difference between humility and insecurity, and self-effacement does no one any favors. We teach our watching children to doubt and excuse and diminish themselves.

The poor world is begging for mercy like Bartimaus, while the rich world is asking for more favor like James and John.

We cannot carry the gospel to the poor and lowly while emulating the practices of the rich and powerful.

I am not as good as my ego suggests and not as bad as my conscience admonishes.

I want to live gratefully, humbly, hopefully.

Our kids need spiritual mentors, and if a new language and posture will lead them, then we better hit our knees, pray for humility, and beg God to help us raise disciples that love Him beyond our homes. We prioritize transformation over methodology, because our rules have a shelf life but loyalty to Jesus does not. Let's keep the baby and change the bathwater.

I may just be one shade of one color of one strand, but I'm part of an elaborate tapestry that goes beyond my perception.

Constant prayer interrupts our ego trips and disrupts our toxic trajectories.

Jesus was tender toward brokenness but impatient toward egotism.

The best people I know are constantly learning, putting themselves humbly under the leadership of others who've gone before them. This is no indicator of weakness but rather healthy ambition. That woman is unafraid of a challenge and cares enough about her own development to ask for help and secure the outcome she wants. Learners become our most effective leaders.

It's not how good we are that counts, but how truthful we are about how good we're not.

Despite my best efforts, I'm not quite perfect. Let's just say I'm like one of those Hopi blankets where they leave a tiny flaw so as to not affront the Lord.

You think you're so cool just because you can walk!

Snobbery works in both directions—if you're rich, thinking you're better than those who aren't is as equally lame as being broke and thinking you're better than those who are rich.

They all said that they could not do it either, but they did; that is what made them so great. They did not believe in their own worth either, not one of those men thought that he was the right man for the throne, but that was their greatness: that they did not believe themselves to be so high.

Laugh at yourself, high and mighty king, laugh at yourself or despair!

I think, perhaps, that I begin to understand how much I do not know.

Olifur licked his lips and gave a small croak. "Please, sir." His voice came out in a thin, wavering stream. "May I have some more?

AS A HUMAN BEING," Einstein once wrote, "one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists.

One thing I know for certain is that the longer I live and the more I learn, the more I realize that I know very little.

Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.