Quotes about Humility
Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doth any man live more to himself, or less to God, than the proud?
- Richard Baxter
He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.
- Thomas a Kempis
No really great man ever thought himself so.
- William Hazlitt
No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words.
- Brennan Manning
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.
- Joseph Addison
The superior man limits his achievements.
- Confucius
Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule. Christ wanted to bring men to where He was. The devil wanted to be above men.
- Ezra Taft Benson
When we fear God, then we shall fear no man, however high-placed he may be.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three- piece suit.
- Max Lucado
Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace.
- Randy Alcorn