Quotes About Humility

Whatever you accomplish in life, you will have to accomplish on your knees. (God told Charles F Stanley)

None of us has become perfect (Phil. 3:12). None of us does everything right. None of us is so wise that we always speak the right word or so strong that we always do the right thing. Remembering this keeps us humble.

The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If I can live to be decrepit enough, I shall be a saint.

Char me the trunk of a redwood tree. Give me pages of white chalk cliffs to write upon. Magnify me thousands of times, and replace my trifling immodesties with a titanic megalomania — then might I write largely enough for our subjects.

My lessons weren't specific to business, but they were fundamental values—integrity, humility, responsibility, work ethic, entrepreneurship, a thirst for knowledge, the desire to make a contribution, and concern for others—that profoundly influenced the way I do business and live my life to this day.

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Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.

If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king.

Swallow your pride occasionally, it's non-fattening!

Brave actions never want a trumpet.

Spoil not an act of kindness by speaking of it.

It is always the secure who are humble.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

People that put themselves above others will fall longer and harder.

Wash out your ego every once in a while — cleanliness is next to godliness not just in body but in humility as well.

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

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor's shoulder is to pat him on the back.

The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.

As much as I love my [d!@k] the universe does not dance to its whim. How is this hard for some guys to understand?

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree-toad is a chef-d'Å"uvre for the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven, And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue, And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.

Patience is sister to meekness, and humility is its mother.