Quotes About Humility

It may be time for America to learn the forgotten rewards of sitting down and shutting up.

All of this made me feel better about myself, and I was grateful to the books for teaching me-without my even having to read them- that there were people in the world more desperate, more self-absorbed, more boring than I was. - about memoirs

There is always someone smarter than you; you'd think we die from the constant pain of our mental inferiority, except that most of the time we're too stupid to feel it.

The truth is that the world is full of bumblers exactly like you, and to think that you're special is just one more thing you've bumbled.

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

She laughed and said not to confuse pride with nobleness.

The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely entrusted.

Don't condescend to unskilled labor. Try it for half a day first.

Who would be interested? I'm the son of a village blacksmith, never even graduated from high school. I'm just an ordinary person.

Do not pray for relief from pain, but pray for strength to suffer with courage, humility and love

That he had no scruples; for, said he, when I fail in my duty, I readily acknowledge it, saying, I am used to do so: I shall never do otherwise, if I am left to myself. I fail not, then I give GOD thanks, acknowledging the strength comes from Him.

We can do little things for GOD; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of Him, and that done, if there is nothing else to call me, I prostrate myself in worship before Him, Who has given me grace to work; afterwards I rise happier than a king. It is enough for me to pick up but a straw from the ground for the love of GOD.

It is not necessary for being with GOD to be always at church; we may make an oratory of our heart, wherein to retire from time to time, to converse with Him in meekness, humility, and love. Every one is capable of such familiar conversation with GOD, some more, some less: He knows what we can do.

It is not necessary for being with GOD to be always at church: we may make an oratory of our heart wherein to retire from time to time to converse with Him in meekness, humility and love. Every one is capable of such familiar conversation with GOD, some more, some less: He knows what we can do. Let us begin, then. Perhaps

That he had no scruples; for, said he, when I fail in my duty, I readily acknowledge it, saying, I am used to do so: I shall never do otherwise, if I am left to myself. If I fail not, then I give GOD thanks, acknowledging that it comes from Him.

Simply present yourself to God as if you were a poor man knocking on the door of a rich man, and fix your attention on His presence.

Though he was indeed a humble man, he never sought the glory of humility, but only its reality. He wanted no one but God to witness what he did, just as the only reward he expected was God Himself.

When I was younger I saw God as a mighty healer who did something for me, but after all these years of valleys and painful trials Jesus has become an ever-present friend who is with me all the time. He has gone from being an historical God to being a living God to me today. I've fallen short many times during these trials and testings, but he has always been faithful. Whenever I've asked him to help me he always has....Jesus is everything and we are nothing.

It's not enough to be clever. You have to be clever and kind.

As if true pride Were not also humble!

Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

He who grows smaller and smaller in God's grand scheme of things, until he is invisible to all but himself.

Everyone was impressed by his humility, and one visitor was stunned that "he speaks of the war as if he had not directed it;