Quotes about Humility

Calvin saw in the words "Do not judge" a tendency to become overly curious about the sins of others (including those closest to us) that needed to be checked and handed over to God—who alone is the Judge.

Jesus is infallible and we are not.

Maybe at the same time as I'm more confident today, I'm also more humble.

It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed.

Nothing but grace makes a man so humble and, at the same time, so glad.

If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity and faith, and seek not at any time the fame of being learned.

Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the lower animals (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

Don't go around thinking the world owes you a living. It was here first.

When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you, Time takes the confidence out of these incautious opinions. It is more than likely that He thinks about the world, now, pretty much as I think about the Innocents Abroad. The fact is, there is a trifle too much water in both.

The world owes you nothing. It was here first.