Humility
417 quotes: 31 by Keith Craft, 386 from other voices.
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- Fools need Advice most, but wise Men only are the better for it.
- Generally, you can be humble only if you feel really good about yourself — and you want to help those around you feel really good about themselves.
- Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
- Great successes have been made as often in quiet ways as with the blare of trumpets.
- Greatness comes from humble beginnings; it comes from grunt work.
- He that falls into sin is a man, that grieves at it is a saint, that boasteth of it is a devil; yet some glory in that shame, counting the stains of sin the best complexion of their souls.
- He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, may be a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
- He that is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.
- He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.
- He that never changed any of his opinions, never corrected any of his mistakes; and he who was never wise enough to find out any mistakes in himself, will not be charitable enough to excuse what he reckons mistakes in others.
- He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do, exercises the truest humility.
- He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.
- He that will follow good advice, is a greater man than he that gives it.
- He who gives himself airs of importance exhibits the credentials of impotence.
- He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.
- He who is truly great is never too great to give attention to the lowly.
- He who lives without folly is not so wise as he imagines.
- He who thinks his place below him will certainly be below his place.Sir Henry SavileCommonly attributed
- He who tries to shine dims his own light.
- He who wishes to rule over the people must speak as if below them. He who wishes to lead the people must walk as if behind them. So the Sage rules over the people but he does not weigh them down. He leads the people but he does not block their way.
- 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.
- Humility disarms envy and strikes it dead.
- Humility is absolutely necessary for true learning.
- Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons.Dag HammarskjöldSourced
- Humility is mostly about being very honest about how much you owe to luck.
- Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.Rick WarrenSourced
- Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.
- Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.St. BernardCommonly attributed
- Humility is the doorway to truth and clarity of objectives… it’s the doorway to learning.
- Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.
- Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
- Humility is the proper estimate of oneself.
- Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.ChrysostomCommonly attributed
- Humility is the solid foundation of all the virtues.
- Humility is the surest sign of strength.
- Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.
- Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.
- Humility will open more doors than arrogance ever will.
- Humility will teach you knowledge, arrogance will teach you ignorance. If you think you know it all, you have learned nothing.
- I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.