Quotes About Humility

I'll always cringe remembering those little embarrassing moments when I said something dumb on a conference call, when my inexperience poked through, when I should have been more solicitous of the judgment of those around me. They're a reminder that it's not mutually exclusive to be confident and humble, to be skeptical and eager to learn.

I am always a little skeptical when I see people talking about how much money they have.

I'm drawn to writers with skill sets I don't have.

There's a difference between talent and skill. You might have writing talent, but skill is learned. You have to practice. I remain teachable. I was sure that I didn't know everything. People who work with me will tell you I don't think I know everything. I watch people sink around me thinking that they knew everything.

People who are comfortable in their own skin I admire, but you don't know what's really going on. If you meet someone who says they nail being a human, they are as far away from nailing it as a human as you can possibly imagine.

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

My skin still crawls if you call me a movie star. I get embarrassed. I think, don't be ridiculous. Maybe it's because I'm British. To me, Julia Roberts that's a movie star. But when people do call me one, that, I think, is an enormous compliment but, my God, is that a responsibility!

Instead of loving the Trinity of God (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), we tend to love a different trinity: Me, myself, and I.

Real holiness has love for its essence, humility for its clothing, the good of others as its employment, and the honor of God as its end.

Being embarrassed means that you're human, and we like you better for it

Love the life you have been given. And be humbled by it. It is not to be despised.

I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.

Ultimate Reality is not clearly and immediately apprehended except by those who have made themselves loving, pure in heart and poor in spirit.

The more you feel you are fallen; the more you fall in love with God.

Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding.

If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading I would spurn them all.

When you walk in love, you give up your right to be right.

If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love.

As Christians, we have an additional reason to love and serve the poor; for in them we see the face and the flesh of Christ, who made himself poor so to enrich us with his poverty.

Humility is a natural symptom of those who love God.

Not stepping over the bounds of modesty.

As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.

Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires.

My heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow in love.