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Humility Quotes
"My impression is, after many years of consideration, that there never can have been anybody in the world who played worse."
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"For desert, maybe we can split a couple of crumbs."
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"A minister is coming down every generation nearer and nearer to the common level of the useful citizen - no oracle at all but a man of more than average moral instincts who if he knows anything knows how little he knows."
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"Don't assume you are more creative or better than anyone, because some people with better stuffs are just pretending to be dumb for a while."
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"If you think you can stand to know what you're made of, try kneeling before God."
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"To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going down on one's knees and thanking him."
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"Humility is never about being small, unseen and unnoticed. Humility is really about expressing all the wonder you are in a way that all people see is the awesomeness and greatness of GOD."
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"The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection."
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"If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride."
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"Every time I create something, whether an idea or a work of art, initially, its supposed completion seems absolutely perfect to me. However the more I think about it, stare it down, the more it marinates in my soul over the hours, days, and weeks, the more flaws I start to find in it; and finally, the more I'm pressed to continue enhancing it. It essentially turns out that whatever thing a flawed and imperfect, human eye once thought was amazing begins to appear quite wretched. This is why, eternally, God cannot be impressed by mere talents or by mortal achievements. To perfect eyes, I imagine that great is not really that great; rather, humility is ultimately a human being's true greatness."
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"Humility is the greatest shaper of souls and crafter of character, for it wipes away all the grandiose things that we spend so much of our lives pretending to be, so that we can spend all of our lives being the exceptional person that we were actually created to be."
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"When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves freely to others with the faithful expectation that our strength will manifest itself in our shared weakness."
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"Don't be too full of yourself because of how people hail you. When your head is swelling, it means there is more empty space to fill in there!"
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"Too many non-achievers confuse humility with humiliation."
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"I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful."
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"Humility and repentance are necessary to restore your relationship with God."
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"Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness."
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"I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget."
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"All of yesterday's ballers are today's road sweepers."
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"The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. God loves us, not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love."
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"I really lack the words to compliment myself today."
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"Pride is a by-product of insecurity. And the more insecure a person is, the more monuments they need to build.There is a fine line between 'Thy kingdom come' and 'my kingdom come.' If you cross the line, your relationship with God is self-serving.You aren't serving God. You are using God.You aren't building altars to God. You are building monuments to yourself."
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"To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate."
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"Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak."
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"Be not proud of your intelligence. Be simple, wise, and humble."
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"No one's life will be harder because I exist."
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"The humble woman is surprised by all the good that she sees around her rather than scandalized by what she cannot judge anyway. The humble woman is grateful for her successes but not disheartened by her failures. She enjoys her gifts and readily admits her mistakes. She maintains a sense of humor, whether the news from Wall Street is giddy or glum. She faces her character defects without getting discouraged. Her humble confidence in God's love and her enchantment with the kabod Yahweh shape a hedge of thorns against self - absorption and frees her for an unselfconscious presence to others."
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"Hopefully, when your actions and deeds - and therefore other people - boast for you, you're made tired of hearing it, too, from your own mouth because if not, all could lose sight of those actions and deeds behind the gong of your boasting."
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"The fact that you are not perfect may come as a surprise to you but it is not a surprise to anyone else."
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"Proshka was a man of self-esteem. He considered himself a cut above the rest, and had a degree of personal pride. His spell in prison was a humiliating experience for him. No longer could he strut with pride before his fellows, and his spirits sank at once.Proshka went home from prison embittered not so much against Pyotr Nikolayevich as against the whole world.Everyone said the same thing: after he came out of prison, Proshka went to pieces. He grew too lazy to work, took to drink, and was soon caught stealing clothes from the trademan's wife. Once again he ended up in prison."
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