Quotes About Humility

Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread that is my portion.

Otherwise, I may have too much and deny You, saying, ëWho is the LORD?í Or I may become poor and steal, profaning the name of my God.

There is a generation—how haughty are their eyes and pretentious are their glances—

There are three things too wonderful for me, four that I cannot understand:

a servant who becomes king, a fool who is filled with food,

Four things on earth are small, yet they are exceedingly wise:

the rock badgers are creatures of little power, yet they make their homes in the rocks;

and the lizard can be caught in oneís hands, yet it is found in the palaces of kings.

If you have foolishly exalted yourself or if you have plotted evil, put your hand over your mouth.

So I became great and surpassed all in Jerusalem who had preceded me; and my wisdom remained with me.

Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.

Do not be quick to speak, and do not be hasty in your heart to utter a word before God. After all, God is in heaven and you are on earth. So let your words be few.

As a man came from his motherís womb, so he will depart again, naked as he arrived. He takes nothing for his labor to carry in his hands.

Whatever exists was named long ago, and what happens to a man is foreknown; but he cannot contend with one stronger than he.

The end of a matter is better than the beginning, and a patient spirit is better than a proud one.

Do not be overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself?

Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.

For you know in your heart that many times you yourself have cursed others.

All this I tested by wisdom, saying, “I resolve to be wise.” But it was beyond me.

All this I have seen, applying my mind to every deed that is done under the sun; there is a time when one man lords it over another to his own detriment.

Now a poor wise man was found in the city, and he saved the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man.

Folly is appointed to great heights, but the rich sit in lowly positions.

I have seen slaves on horseback, while princes go on foot like slaves.

So mankind is brought low, and man is humbled—do not forgive them!