Humility Quotes

I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation. And my conversation with God is very open-ended. I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world.

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

The Boys and Girls Club taught me a lot about sportsmanship, humility, self-respect.

Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

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

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

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

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