Quotes About Humility

Essentially, pride is a 'my will' rather than 'thy will' approach to life.

Humility is the most important quality in the spiritual life. When it is lacking spiritual growth stops.

Your life is pure joy, pure ecstasy, when you live in humility.

Ego is impurity. Be selfless. Consecrate and dedicate your life to perfection.

Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it.

Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant.

We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.

No matter what you think-life goes on and the world still turns and the universe has its own story. The most we can do is plan anyway, but understand, be humbled by things greater than ourselves.

Walking around a slum in a third world country quickly puts into perspective what really matters in life. It grounds you in a way that you can't experience without getting out of your bubble at home.

Ask Anthony Hopkins how he makes his characters come to life and he just shrugs. I don't know. If I knew, I wouldn't be able to do it. As they say: Where ignorance is bliss it's folly to be wise.

I've become less angry and a little more humble by age and by experience and by going through the ups and downs of life.

I don't take myself terribly seriously. It's why I can be incredibly honest about my life.

I have no place in my life for someone who is sure he can do everything. --Steelmind

In New Zealand I think we often take ourselves too seriously, and being able to laugh at yourself is necessary in life without being too precious.

True brokenness is a lifestyle - a moment-by-moment lifestyle of agreeing with God about the true condition of my heart and life - not as everyone else thinks it is but as He knows it to be.

Whatever you do in your life, try to become a kind, and wise human being.

He neither serves nor rules, he transmits. His position is humble and the beauty at the crown is not his own. He is merely a channel.

A small step, in the midst of great human limitations, can be more pleasing to God than a life which appears outwardly in order but moves through the day without confronting great difficulties.

It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything.

Live simply. Give more. Expect less.

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

I like to live life in an understated way because that's who I am - an ordinary guy who has experienced an extraordinary journey.

I take the greatest lesson from compassion - it takes away all the conceit out of my life.

Honor modesty more than your life.