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Short Humility Quotes

To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.

Timothy Radcliffe

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

Bryant H. McGill

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Henri Frederic Amiel

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

Saint Augustine

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

William Penn

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.

Oscar Levant

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

Inspirational Humility Quotes

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

William Penn

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Humility & Wisdom Quotes

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

Robert Millikan

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.

George Arliss

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

William Cowper

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Frank Moore Colby

For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple.

Thomas Sydenham

It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.

Dee Hock

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

William Cowper

More Humility Quotes

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Baruch Spinoza

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

Oliver Goldsmith

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.

Swami Sivananda

There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

Saint Augustine

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Saint Augustine

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

Washington Irving

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

Thomas S. Monson

The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.

Mignon McLaughlin

The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.

The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.

Saadi

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.

Adam Clarke

Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.

Pope John XXIII

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

Richard Dawkins

There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.

William Osler

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

The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.

Edmund Waller

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

Saint Augustine

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

Paulo Coelho

The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.

Saadi

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

Camille Pissarro

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

John Templeton

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.

John Maynard Keynes

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

Obedience to the word in humility of mind never confuses.

John Nelson Darby

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

Rabindranath Tagore

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.

Charles Spurgeon

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

Samuel Richardson

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.

Fulton J. Sheen

Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.

Thomas Moore

Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility.

Johannes Tauler

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.

Marvin Olasky

Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.

Lajos Kossuth

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

Thomas Merton

The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.

Phaedrus

Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.

Joseph Ratzinger

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

Irving Babbitt

But You never reject a repentant and humble heart.

Alphonsus Liguori

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

Rick Warren

Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.

George Byron

The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.

Samuel Richardson

Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.

William Law

He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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