Quotes About Humility

God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements or the size of their capabilities.

If we are to have our prayers answered, we must give God the glory.

If anything has been accomplished through my life, it has been solely God's doing, not mine, and He—not I—must get the credit.

Any Christian whose interest is directed toward himself is worldly.

We have not yet learned that we are more powerful on our knees than behind the most powerful weapons that can be developed.

What is the authority in your life? Is it your selfishness? Your lust? Your greed? Or have you turned it all over to God and said, "Lord, You are going to be my authority"? When you are under authority, you are then able to assume authority.

Authentic Christian living has its own order of priority in our lives: God first, others second, self third.

A lot of people think Christianity is about always being perfect. It's actually the opposite of that. It's realizing that we're all humans, and that's why God sent his Son to this earth - to save people.

You'll never be a wonderful woman or even a wonderful human being until you learn to have some regard for human frailty.

Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.

It's easy for me to say, 'Our era is the best, and I was the best,' and all that. But in my mind, I think we could compete and do really well, but you never know until you're out there. And I say that because I played against guys that I thought were really good when I came in the league, and after playing against those guys I'd say, 'Well, he's not that good.'

Maybe it's because growing up in Indiana we didn't have very much, so I never got used to counting on having things. I guess we were poor, but we didn't know that. We were just like all our other neighbors in West Baden and French Lick--just trying to get by.

Your goals should be bigger than your ego,

It doesn't pay to act bulletproof. Nobody is flawless and when you act as if you are, it always rings false.

Doc's a sweet little man, five-eightish,

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

August in Florida is God's way of reminding us who's in charge.

That winter he was invited to give a reading at the University of Massachusetts (Boston), but not a single person showed up. He sat in the silent lecture hall while his two sponsors gazed at their watches; finally Yates suggested they adjourn to a bar. He didn't seem particularly surprised.