Quotes about Humility
We'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices?
- John Ortberg
Learn to humble yourself, you are but earth and clay.
- Thomas a Kempis
The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.
- Thomas a Kempis
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.
- Ayn Rand
To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is to acknowledge you are wiser today.
- Charles Spurgeon
Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.
- Mark Twain
He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.
- Joseph Campbell
Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep." Said the tube-rose to the skunk, "Oh, most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!"
- Khalil Gibran
We think we do so much for the poor, but it is they who make us rich
- Mother Teresa
One who strictly prosecutes the misdemeanors of others will find not condescension towards his own.
- St. John Chrysostom
Judgmental, prophetic lone rangers do not last.
- James Goll