Quotes about Humility
Don't let your pride or a lack of courage stand in the way of saying you're sorry to people you may have offended.
- Sean Covey
In judging others a man laboreth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and examining himself he always laboreth to good purpose.
- Thomas a Kempis
Being humble does not mean being weak, reticent, or self-effacing. It means recognizing principle and putting it ahead of self. It means standing firmly for principle, even in the fact of opposition.
- Stephen Covey
There should be less talk. . . . What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.
- Mother Teresa
Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.
- Joyce Meyer
Judge not, before you judge yourself. Judge not, if you're not ready for judgment. The Road of life is rocky and you may stumble too, so while you talk about me, someone else is judging you.
- Bob Marley
Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that is the gravity of our sinful nature, not grace.
- Philip Yancey
I am only human, although I regret it.
- Mark Twain
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
One has to be alone, under the sky, Before everything falls into place and one finds his or her own place in the midst of it all. We have to have the humility to realize ourselves as part of nature.
- Thomas Merton
I fully realize that this gratitude of mine is not in the least a sign of perfection: it must be my nature - I could be suborned with a sardine.
- Teresa of Avila
It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.
- Wendell Berry