Quotes about Humility

I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There's the teaching that we're supposed to be poor to show that we're humble. I don't buy that. I think we're supposed to be leaders. We're supposed to excel.

I think my teammates make me look a lot better than I am.

13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good behavior his works in the humility of wisdom.

Criticism is one of the ultimate manifestations of pride because when we criticize someone else, we assume we are superior to them.

Do not jockey for position or try to prove your importance to others with a lot of hollow, empty boasting and self-promotion. Instead, have a modest opinion of yourself, and learn to recognize the outstanding contributions that others have to impart.

It's not about you.

True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others.

If you want God to bless you and use you greatly, you must be willing to walk with a limp the rest of your life, because God uses weak people.

A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.

The successful evangelist does not stand aloof from the experience of sinners, passing easy judgment on them, praying for them from a distance; on the contrary, she loves them so much that she joins them and deigns to walk in their shoes and feel the texture of their experience.

Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it.