Quotes About Humility

Self importance is man's greatest enemy.

A wise man has dignity without pride; a fool has pride without dignity.

The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.

Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.

No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.

I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.

I'm humble enough to wait and just chill. I'm having fun just working with these good people, man.

Any man who thinks he knows the mind of a woman is a man who knows nothing.

The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.

The measure of a man is not how many servants he has but how many men he serves .

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.

Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.

People who only listen to preachers have a tendency to put them on a pedestal, but those who live with preachers recognize that they are just common men.

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is that he forgets to zip up. The third sign is that he forgets to zip down.

When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

Repentance lifts a man up. Mourning knocks at heaven's gate. Holy humility opens it.

When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.

A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other graces, but it is very difficult to counterfeit humility.

For awhile, I got stupid about only wanting a leading-man role, but I have no illusions. I know I'm not Brad Pitt.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?

St. Joseph was an ordinary sort of man on whom God relied to do great things. He did exactly what the Lord wanted him to do, in each and every event that went to make up his life.

"The best of men are just men at best.