Quotes about Humility
We pride ourselves on nothing but the courage to be trivial. For a person is simple in his striving for truth, and it is honest to admit this openly.
- Albert Einstein
The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.
- Aldous Huxley
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatness of a man is measured by the way he treats the little man. Compassion for the weak is a sign of greatness.
- Myles Munroe
Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.
- Jordan Peterson
To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
I am not better than anyone else just because I play football.
- Tim Tebow
No matter who we are, God does not adapt to please us; we always have to adapt to him.
- Reinhard Bonnke
When I looked very closely to the Bible and to Jesus, this Christ who came, I discovered something awesome. I discovered that when He's first, then He places me in a second position that's above the class that I was given by other men.
- Tony Evans
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
- William Wordsworth
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
- Reinhold Niebuhr