Quotes About Humility

There exists no greater megalomania than thinking that we are all alone in this cosmic ocean!

We are always at the mercy of powers greater than us, even when our power is at its highest level!

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

Now some people are of the opinion that they are altogether holy and perfect, and go around the place with big deeds and big words, and yet they strive for and desire so many things, they wish to possess so much and are so concerned both with themselves and with this thing and that. They assert that they are seeking great piety and devotion, and yet they cannot accept a single word of reproval without answering back. Be certain of this: they are far from God and are not in union with him.

It is written: 'They have become rich in all virtues' (1 Cor. 1:5). Truly, this cannot happen unless they first become poor in all things. Whoever desires to be given everything, must first give everything away.

the man who sat naked in his tub said to Alexander the Great, who ruled the whole world: 'I am a greater lord than you are, for I have spurned more than you have seized. What you think it is a great thing to possess, is too trivial for me to scorn.

When we go out of ourselves through obedience and strip ourselves of what is ours, then God must enter into us; for when someone wills nothing for themselves, then God must will on their behalf just as he does for himself.

our Lord said, 'Blessed are the poor in spirit' (Matt. 5:3), which is to say those who are poor in will.

Furthermore, we should keep all things only as if they had been merely lent and not given to us, without any sense of possessiveness, whether it be our body or soul, our senses, faculties, worldly goods or honour, friends, relations, house or home or anything whatsoever.

Truly, if someone were to renounce a kingdom or the whole world while still holding on to themselves, then they would have renounced nothing at all.

A perfect and true will can only exist when we have been entirely taken up into God's will and no longer have our own will; whoever does this the more, the more and the more truly they are rooted in God. Indeed, a single Ave Maria spoken in this spirit, when we have stripped ourselves of ourselves, is worth more than the repetition of a thousand psalters without it. In fact, a single step would be better with it than to cross the sea without it.

If what is in the blood conquers the flesh, then one is humble, patient, chaste and has every virtue. If the flesh conquers the blood, however, one is proud, angry and shameless, having every kind of vice.

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

There comes a time in every mother's life when it becomes very clear that your child is a much better person than you are, but you're not allowed to say this because then where would you go from there—admitting such a thing to a nine-year-old?

To err is human. (Errare Humanum Est)

I think you'll just have to wait for that Loser of the Month tiara a little while longer while I wear it, with pride, around my neighborhood.

We look at each other for a moment and for once I feel awkward. It's not that I'm not into humility; I've just never had to practise it.

Pride goeth before the fall....but you've already fallen, haven't you?

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.

The great man is he who does not loose his child's heart.

Some people know that they are so adorable looking, all they have to do is smile and dress up and they get plenty from that. Then there are some of us who, early on, see that that doesn't work. So we joke about it.

I am clever enough to know that I am clever.

She never asked for too much. She just wanted to be ordinary.