Quotes about Humility

I haven't gotten overly confident or cocky. I think staying level and humble has helped me through the bad times and the good times.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.

He is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

What good does it do to speak learnedly about the Trinity if, lacking humility, you displease the Trinity? Indeed it is not learning that makes a man holy and just, but a virtuous life makes him pleasing to God. I would rather feel contrition than know how to define it. For what would it profit us to know the whole Bible by heart and the principles of all the philosophers if we live without grace and the love of God? Vanity of vanities and all is vanity, except to love God and serve Him alone.

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real

He prays dictatorially. When it is sunshine, he prays for rain, and when it is rain, he prays for sunshine. He follows the same idea in everything that he prays for; for what is the amount of all his prayers, but an attempt to make the Almighty change his mind, and act otherwise than he does? It is as if he were to say—- thou knowest not so well as I.

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

Better is that sin which humbles me, than that duty which makes me proud.

The mercies of God make a sinner proud, but a saint humble.

Our sins should humble us, but they must not discourage us from coming to Christ.

Humility was never a loser.