Quotes About Humility

Stupidity is letting your pride rob you of God's blessings.

You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do but you don't have to be arrogant about it.

So you see, I already have everything I want. And what do you get the man who has everything? Why, you get on your knees.

One who is truly confident is able to apologize.

Arrogance is thinking you are above someone else, Confidence is knowing no one is above you.

It is easy to tell confidence from pride. Confidence lifts, encourages, helps, and is full of gratitude. Pride demeans, mocks, destroys, and is bitter and resentful.

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.

It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it is ridiculous to show it to others.

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

If arrogance is the heady wine of youth then humility must be its eternal hangover.

I've never had a humble opinion in my life. If you're going to have one why bother to be humble about it?

I'm not really cool, or dashing, or any of those things.

Never think that you already know all. However highly you are appraised, always have the courage to say to yourself-I am ignorant.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. The sun has no need to boast of his brightness, nor the moon of her effulgence.

There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

Humility is courage, the open acceptance of your own perfection.

If a man is devout, we accuse him of hypocrisy; if he is not, of impiety; if he is humble, we look on his humility as a weakness; if he is generous, we call his courage pride.

The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.

Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music.

My dad's probably one of the kindest people in the world. When I was younger that's not how I was- I was a little spoiled brat.