Quotes About Humility

The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods.

The core of a man's life should be his relationship with God. The man who walks humbly with God is motivated and empowered to step up and assume the difficult responsibilitie s that come his way.

I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him, when he is full already with something else. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

Through the humbling dispensations of Divine Providence, men are sometimes fitted for his service.

Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility.

Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity?

I wish to have as my epitaph: 'Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than he.'

A man is what he is on his knees, and no more.

I am just a plain, common man.

He who kneels before God, can stand before any man.

A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

I'm a simple man, and I use simple materials.

Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God

Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

If you meet with a system of theology which magnifies man, flee from it as far as you can.

Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.

Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know.

A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.

When you are about to badger the weak, Then imagine yourself before a more powerful man.