Humility Quotes

If we learn not humility, we learn nothing.

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

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.

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

Mr. Chairman, delegates. I accept your nomination for President of the United States of America. I do so with humility, deeply moved by the trust you have placed in me. It is a great honor. It is an even greater responsibility.

I don't doubt for a second that Neil Armstrong's spirit is still with us: that unique blend of optimism, humility and the utter confidence that when the world needs someone to do the really big stuff, you need an American.

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.

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

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

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

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

Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

True humility is contentment.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don't inflict harm where it's not necessary.

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

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

Too many people in government seem to think they are above regular folks, and I said I would expect humility in the way each member of my team served- that they would recognize that the taxpayer is boss.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.