Quotes about Humility
The Spirit never makes men the instruments of converting others until they feel that they cannot do it themselves; that their skill in argument, in persuasion, in management, avails nothing.
- Charles Hodge
Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Do you see what little is required of a man to live a well-tempered and god-fearing life? Obey these precepts, and the gods will ask nothing more.
- Marcus Aurelius
A man that is well ordered in his soul needeth little the unkind demeanor of worldly people nor yet their proud behavior.
- Thomas a Kempis
Men, God is not opposed to greatness. God is opposed to pride. Big difference. Unfortunately, it is a difference not widely understood or embraced.
- Tony Evans
All men are frail; but thou shouldst reckon none so frail as thyself.
- Thomas a Kempis
No man is great if he thinks he is.
- Will Rogers
Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best.
- Confucius
Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.
- Abraham Lincoln
If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.
- Mark Twain
There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.
- Publilius Syrus
By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.
- Thomas a Kempis