Humility Quotes - page 2

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility. (Robin Morgan)
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail. View quote
Francis Quarles
The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
The Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility. View quote
Ken Follett
Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins. View quote
Alphonsus Liguori
Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility. View quote
Adam Clarke
It's all about humanity, humility, and integrity. View quote
Debra Wilson
Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. View quote
Margaret Halsey
To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility. View quote
Timothy Radcliffe
Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces. (William Gurnall)
Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred. View quote
Yousef Munayyer
In your career you have a lot of good moments and bad ones. The important thing is to have enough motivation to keep working all the days with humility and trying to be a better player than before. I am going to try to continue doing this. View quote
Rafael Nadal
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects of our history who have stood here before me; pride in the reflection that this home of legislative debate represents human liberty in the purest form yet devised. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
We are seekers of the truth, but we do not embody the truth. And in humility, we should recognize that the same can be said about our most ardent foes. View quote
John Danforth
Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Some forty years of experience in my field as a scholar and as a teacher have given me great confidence mixed with greater humility. View quote
George Sarton
I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in the South - barely tolerated spinsters living upon the grudging patronage of sister's husband or brother's wife! - stuck away in some little mouse-trap of a room - encouraged by one in-law to visit another - little birdlike women without any nest - eating the crust of humility all their life! Is that the future that we've mapped out for ourselves? View quote
Tennessee Williams
In naturalism, man is actually very insignificant, but arrogates to himself stupendous power. In Christianity, man is actually the apex of created significance, but is called to see it in abject humility. View quote
Ravi Zacharias
Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility - these are the very foundation of any real civilization, no longer the prerogatives, the preserves of any one church, but belonging to everyone, every child in every home, in every school. (Yehudi Menuhin)
There is nothing that comes closer to true humility than the intelligence. It is impossible to feel pride in one's intelligence at the moment when one really and truly exercises it. View quote
Simone Weil
Dialogue cannot exist without humility. View quote
Paulo Freire
I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility. View quote
John Ruskin
The most offensive egotist is he that fears to say "I" and "me." "It will probably rain "-that is dogmatic. "I think it will rain"-that is natural and modest. Montaigne is the most delightful of essayists because so great is his humility that he does not think it important that we see not Montaigne. He so forgets himself that he employs no artifice to make us forget him. View quote
Ambrose Bierce