Humility Quotes About Character & Perspective – Page 2 | GloryQuotes

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.

Alphonsus Liguori

Power is dangerous unless you have humility.

Richard J. Daley

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

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.

Pope Benedict XVI

Don't be humble... you're not that great.

Golda Meir

Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

Abraham Cahan

Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.

William Gurnall

If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Ted Turner

Humility is attentive patience.

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

Saint Augustine

I am no more humble than my talents require.

Oscar Levant

One may be humble out of pride.

Michel de Montaigne

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.

Francis Quarles

If I had any humility I would be perfect.

Ted Turner

The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be.

John Templeton

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.

Edsger Dijkstra

O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

True humility is contentment.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Without humility there can be no humanity.

John Buchan

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Mohandas Gandhi

Humility is truth.

Desiderius Erasmus

Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.

Xun Zi

If we learn not humility, we learn nothing.

John Jewel

It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored.

James K. Polk

Yes, I am proud, and very humble too.

Anne Sullivan Macy

The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area.

Billy Tauzin

Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.

James Montgomery

But my humble opinion is, I'm not quite sure where I stand on the legalization of drugs - though, if tequila is legal, pot should probably be legal.

Ted Demme

What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself.

Trevor Nunn

How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.

Ron Paul

If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.

Paul Keating

Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.

Giorgio Morandi

Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty.

Jefferson Davis

The word majesty was now dropped; but, with the deepest respect and humility, I was addressed as the count. What could I do? I accepted the title, and from that moment I was known as Count Peter.

Adelbert von Chamisso

Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.

Joe Klein

The humble and meek are thirsting for blood.

Joe Orton

A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.

Laurel Lee

This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it.

Adelbert von Chamisso

I beg the Most High to allow me the favour of the double reward, but if God only finds me worthy of one reward, I will accept it in all humility.

King Hassan II

In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.

Paul Elmer More

Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.

Harold Warner

One can build from ordinary stone a humble house or the finest chateau.

Leon N. Cooper

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

Kong Fu Zi

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.

Margaret Halsey

Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.

Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.

John Madden