Quotes About Humility

Believe in something larger than yourself.

Get down on your knees and thank God you are on your feet.

It is abundantly clear that success tends to negate humility.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter.

An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.

The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.

I have made mistakes, but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

He who talks too much commits a sin.

Remember, if God had wanted this to be perfect, he never would have had me up here.

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks.

Seek not out the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are above thy strength.

I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart.

We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.

He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.

Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.

If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age.

I'm not at all stuck up . . . although, judging from those around me, I have every right to be.

When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence without giving himself airs about it.