Quotes About Humility

To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness.

One achieves true human dignity only when one serves. Only he is great who subjects himself to taking part in the achievement of a great task.

I won't defile my blessings by imagining that I deserve them. Until every human receives the dignity I casually enjoy, I pray my heart aches with tension and my belly rumbles for injustice.

If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.

The ministers of Christ should possess refinement. All uncouth manners, attitudes and gestures should be discarded, and they should encourage in themselves humble dignity of bearing.

When boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.

We can never grasp the extent of our depravity until we recognize the excellencies of our created dignity

Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity.

I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?

True dignity abides with him alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can still suspect, and still revere himself, In lowliness of heart.

Do not romanticize the poor...We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty damages our dignity.

There is something so beautiful and inspiring about picking ourselves up with humility and dignity after we fall.

If you want to know how little your dignity is worth, take it to the pawnbroker.

It is more offensive to outshine in dignity than in personal attractions.

...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

To graciously receive is an expression of the dignity of giving.

There is no glory in otustripping donkeys.

When we make mistakes, we simply say sorry. And saying the words would cost us our pride most of the time.

It's always better to sit on your dignity in private than to stand on it in public.

Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

It is hard to learn when we think we know something.