Quotes about Humility

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

Oliver Wendell Holmes once attended a meeting in which he was the shortest man present. "Dr. Holmes," quipped a friend, "I should think you'd feel rather small among us big fellows." "I do," retorted Holmes, "I feel like a dime among a lot of pennies."

Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou?

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.

Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?

When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.

Most people wish to serve God — but only in an advisory capacity.

God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.

Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.

A man's pride shall bring him low: but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.