2,389 Quotes About Humility

Here is the path to the higher life: down, lower down! Just as water always seeks and fills the lowest place, so the moment God finds men abased and empty, His glory and power flow in to exalt and to bless.

The humble listen to their brothers and sisters because they assume they have something to learn. They are open to correction, and they become wiser through it.

One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.

God doesn't want meerly action but hearts driving action.

No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two, Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential, glad to be of use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous— Almost, at times, the Fool.

Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.

Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God.

I am not concerned that I am not known; I seek to be worthy to be known.

If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded.A true understanding and humble estimate of oneself is the highest and most valuable of all lessons. To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.