Humility Quotes

I believe our legacy will be defined by the accomplishments and fearless nature by which our daughters and sons take on the global challenges we face. I also wonder if perhaps the most lasting expression of one's humility lies in our ability to foster and mentor our children.

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.

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.

If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.

Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.

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

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

Humility is not a trait I often associate with America.

Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.

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

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

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

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

Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.

It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.

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

The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.

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.

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.

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

Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.

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

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

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.

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

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

One thing that golf teaches you is humility.

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?

Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.

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

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

Humility is attentive patience.

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

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

I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.

True humility is contentment.

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

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

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

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

The most important thing is that you treat everybody incredibly well and lead with a bit of humility. I've found that when I go into a company to lead, it's important to have a plan and to make that plan a simple one that everybody can understand.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

Expecting to be wrong about most things most of the time brings, finally, the kind of humility that leads to peace. I think.

O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.

The word majesty was now dropped; but, with the deepest respect and humility, I was addressed as the count. What could I do? I accepted the title, and from that moment I was known as Count Peter.

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.

I make these little films. I'm just a working person. I just study people a little bit more. It's more sociological, and it's funny anyway - not that serious. It's not like false humility. I just take it for what it is.

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.

I'm coming from a place of total strength and humility now.

Humility is considered an un-masculine quality.

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics.

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

I have a healthy amount of humility.

But I still feel like a normal person... I've walked the streets and I know what it feels like. I speak with humility, and apparently those songs connect with people.

Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.

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.

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.

I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility.

It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.

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.

If we learn not humility, we learn nothing.

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.

An actor should always let humility outweigh ambition.

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

Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.