Quotes about Humility
A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.
- Mark Twain
I don't consider myself no attractive man. People like Tom Jones and Elvis Presley - I'm not nothing like that.
- Muhammad Ali
Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.
- Oswald Chambers
Our Lord did not say it was wrong to pray in the corners of the street, but He did say it was wrong to have the motive to "be seen of men".
- Oswald Chambers
I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.
- Ralph Abernathy
Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The repentant man rightfully loses trust in himself. He recognizes his self-dependence as the source of his problems, not the solution.
- Randy Alcorn
A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.
- Henry Ford
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Angels contented with their face in heaven, seek not the praise of men.
- John Milton
God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.
- John Stott
Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. The noblest thing a man can do is, just humbly to receive, and then go amongst others and give.
- David Livingstone