Humility Quotes

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.

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.

We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.

Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That's not to say humble people don't exist there, but ambition seems really important.

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.

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.

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

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

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.

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

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

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

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

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

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

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

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

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

It's wonderful to be back. Back among the mountains that remind us of our vulnerability, our ultimate lack of control over the world we live in. Mountains that demand humility, and yield so much peace in return.

Humility is attentive patience.

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

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.

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

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.

Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.

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