Quotes About Humility

All self-importance is a form of self-pity in disguise.

Once we get over our inflated ideas of self importance, we might actually do something important.

Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot immediately!

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

Always remember that vanity leads to a disgusting sense of self-love, do not love yourself, love the world instead.

People need to learn how to be less hateful, obnoxious, mean, inconsiderate, self obsessed, and self absorbed.

Pride comes before a fall.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.

Stop being so sure that you are always right, and others wrong. Don't trust your own opinion, when you find it contrary to that of older men, and especially to that of your own parents. Age gives experience, and therefore deserves respect.

In spinning a robe of your own righteousness, before the sun goes down you will find it all unraveled.

Many have passed the rocks of gross sins - who have suffered shipwreck upon the sands of self-righteousness.

The self-righteous never apologize.

Pride is such a weak emotion rooted in self pity, vanity, and distortion of value, how can you ever value another or humbly value life.

Deny Self for Self's sake

I do not know myself and God forbid that I should

Proclaim not all thou knowest

Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience

Einstein, stop telling God what to do!

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

Be modest in your behavior, if you really want to overcome arrogance. If you boast about your achievements and praise yourself, you will look dumb. People will assume you to be a snob. If you have done something that is praiseworthy, then let others decide.

Speak less than you know; have more than you show