Quotes About Humility

Let mortal man keep to his own Mortality, and not expect too much.

Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven - of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best.

I like a mysterious man. I like a man who reads and is knowledgeable about the world, but who doesn't have to brag about it.

Pride is competition-competition between God and Man.

A man may be sharper than another, but not than all others.

Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him. (Theon Greyjoy)

Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck." Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.

if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.

Man is at his tallest when he bows.

It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.

He was a man who understood the virtue of small things.

Do I think I'm a holy man? Sometimes.

Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man.

Let us fear God and we shall cease to fear man.

Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.

...small too even the longest fame thereafter, which is itself subject to a succession of little men who quickly die, and have no knowledge of themselves, let alone of those long dead.

Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God.

I am one imperfect man saved by God's grace.

A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.