2,389 Quotes About Humility

Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.

A man who can own pearls does not bother about shells, and those who aspire to virtue do not trouble themselves over honors.

A man should not glory in what he already knows but in what he has yet to learn.

Often it takes outer authority to send us on the path to our own inner authority.

The Honey that Adorns my soul to Network with all Nobility in an Affable Humility means Hannah

I am one and when I am one I am none, and when I am none I have won.

Humility is even more pleasing in people in whom arrogance would be understandable.

Paulette had never been flush with self-confidence. People took that as humility, but humility isn’t painful and crippling. She hadn’t yet learned that humble and self-destructive aren’t the same thing at all. They’re not even on the same team. - From "The Gardens of Ailana" handbook for healers & mystics

The disillusionment with our own abilities is, perhaps, one of the most important things that can ever happen to us.