2,389 Quotes About Humility

Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to swing a cat there; but as Mr. Dick justly observed to me, [...] "You know, Trotwood, I don't want to swing a cat. I never do swing a cat. Therefore, what does that signify to me!

We umble ones have got eyes, mostly speaking - and we look out of 'em.

Without humility is there any harmony ?

There was something about the man's abject humility that excited him in a way he could not have explained.

As St. Paul says, what matters isn't so much our knowledge of God as God's knowledge of us; not, as it were, the god we want but the God who wants us. God help us, we don't understand ourselves; how can we expect to understand that Self which stands beside our selves like Niagara beside a trickling tap?

Humility does not consist in hiding our talents and virtues, or in thinking of ourselves as being worse than we are, but in realizing that all we are and all that we have are gifts bestowed upon us by God!

The trouble is that we have a very wrong notion of humility; we associate it with timidity, self-effacement and lowliness in its worst sense!

The birth of a great idea comes through you, not from you.

True humility is a way of life. Humility must be imbibed, inculcated through self-awareness.