Humility Quotations | Page 2

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

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.

The world of Manhattan is small and tightly knit, and the man on top retains a certain humility. He knows how far and fast he can fall by looking at the guy across the street. The view from the $250,000 apartment covers a lot of ground, most of it condemned.

Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was definitely not encouraged, and pleasure or pride would be punishable by death.

Take what you can use and let the rest go by.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

The less you know, the more you believe.

When you're a politician, someone always wants something from you, so they're constantly telling you how smart or great you are, and that can warp people! Exercising humility is important to me. My friends back home treat me like the same person I was when I was waiting tables.

We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

Now that I have and I'm not a have-not, I've learned how important it is to maintain humility.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, 'Does this suck?' and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, 'I'm on fire, I'm amazing!' and I don't think that's the way to work.

With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.

Maybe it's a cultural thing, being Korean, but my first reflex has always been to exude humility - but it doesn't help you in acting. For acting, humility isn't the best thing. It'll weaken your work.

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

An actor should always let humility outweigh ambition.

Humility is not a trait I often associate with America.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them.

But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?

From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.

I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'

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

As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.

Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of 'experiments' banned long ago. This is a misrepresentation. The work we do is performed with compassion, care, humanity and humility. I have never seen an animal suffer pain.

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

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

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.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

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

If there is one thing I have learned on this incredible journey we call life, it is this: the sign of a truly successful individual is humility.

You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.

There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.

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

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us

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.

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

We believe in humility and integrity, the spirit of one people, bound together under God. We understand that the Constitution was written to control and regulate the government, not the people.

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.

Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

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

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

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.

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

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.

One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

Great leaders don't need to act tough. Their confidence and humility serve to underscore their toughness.

So much of how we act and what we do is based on humility or pride - that's everything. And when you can humble yourself, you know, we are more like Christ when we can humble ourselves.

There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

All spiritual things are to be treated with sacred dignity. Humility and meekness are in accordance with the life of Christ, but they are to be shown in a dignified way.

I have seen humility in many of the finest leaders I have met the world over. And indeed, it is embodied in the warm, engaging and quintessentially successful spirit of Sir Richard Branson.

The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.

I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.

With the help of the Holy Ghost, we can watch over ourselves. We can pray to recognize and reject the first thoughts of sin. We can pray to recognize a warning not to speak words which would hurt or tempt someone else. And we can, when we must, pray for the humility and the faith to repent.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

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.

I think some of the funniest and most artistic people I know are the ones who had a hard time at school. They often have humility and artistry. So, as much as I feel bad for kids who have to go through a rough childhood, I believe that if they can turn it around, it's going to make them better people later on.

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.

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

Cheerfully fessing up to our failures turns crazy mind off, humility and compassion on. I learned this in a karate dojo that had a strange tradition. Everyone there loved recounting failure stories, and after an evening of smacking one another, we'd sit and have a beer while the students swapped tales of martial arts disaster.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

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.

There's a belief that you're supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don't see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had compleatly overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.

Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.

I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.