HUMILITY QUOTES

quotations about humility

Humility has nothing to do with depreciating ourselves and our gifts in ways we know to be untrue. Even "humble" attitudes can be masks of pride. Humility is that freedom from our self which enables us to be in positions in which we have neither recognition nor importance, neither power nor visibility, and even experience deprivation, and yet have joy and delight. It is the freedom of knowing that we are not in the center of the universe, not even in the center of our own private universe.

DAVID F. WELLS

Losing Our Virtue


It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

JANE AUSTEN

Emma

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Humility is a beautiful centre, from which every other virtue radiates.

LADY MOUNTCASHEL

attributed, Day's Collacon


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

With Malice Toward Some

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A great man is always willing to be little.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

"Compensation", Essays

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

AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO

attributed, Manipulus Florum

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Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.

SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM

A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles


Life is a long lesson in humility.

J.M. BARRIE

The Little Minister

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True humility is having the understanding that, even as a small seed, we are still an important part of the greater plan. However, we are not the master planner.

TANYA COPPRUE

Under the Mango Tree


Lowliness is the base of every virtue,
And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY

Festus

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The eminent person who takes no notice of his own perfection is twice eminent.

BALTASAR GRACIAN

Oraculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia

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True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.

RICK WARREN

The Purpose Driven Life

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Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness.

WILLIAM SHENSTONE

Essays on Men and Manners


Every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

BIBLE

Luke 18:14

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True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.

MARTIN LUTHER

Martin Luther Christmas Book

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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin
Is pride that apes humility.

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

The Devil's Thoughts

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Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.

MADELEINE L'ENGLE

A Circle of Quiet


When stepped on, the worm curls up. That is a clever thing to do. Thus it reduces its chances of being stepped on again. In the language of morality: humility.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

"Maxims and Arrows,", Twilight of the Idols

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Humility is a virtue when you have no other.

EDWARD ABBEY

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

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He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do, exercises the truest humility.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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