Quotes About Humility

But why, she thought wryly, did a man seem more attractive as he became less available? How humbling to think one had so much in common with a cow stretching its neck through a gate for better grass.

Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!

The greatest of men must turn beggars when they have to do with Christ.

Esther came to a proud imperious man; we come to the God of love and grace.

The day you start giving importance to the life of even a little fly, you turn into a holy man!

Sometimes, man must refuse to win, especially against the nature!

Realise well, proud little man that even the highest clouds don't shine! For above all things there lie brightest stars.

Will you continue doing goodness even if you know that no one will know them? Will you continue doing kindness even if you know that no one will remember them? Then, you are truly a holy man!

I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.

Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!

A man may be humble through vainglory.

The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

I didn't become CM on 07-10-2001. I have always been CM, I am CM today and shall be CM forever. For me CM means not Chief Minister but Common Man.

In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.

Though the desire of fame be the last weakness Wise men put off.

No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.

Our Lord did not say it was wrong to pray in the corners of the street, but He did say it was wrong to have the motive to "be seen of men".

Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.

Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings.

I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.

Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.

The repentant man rightfully loses trust in himself. He recognizes his self-dependence as the source of his problems, not the solution.

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their caparisons of title, wealth, and place, he considers but as harness.