2,389 Quotes About Humility

I thought I could outrun my ignorance, but life was too fast for me. I find it necessary to re-engage and re-assess the things I thought I knew. Humility is exhausting.

There is one thing you must always remember about yourself; always be yourself, with courage and humility, no matter what!

Earthseed Cast on new ground Must first perceive That it knows nothing.

We often betray our arrogance or immaturity by asserting that we will never do something bad that we are capable of doing.

We criticize anyone who tries to break away from the rat race, because the idea that there is a way out scares us more than dying in the state we’re in.

The first product of self-knowledge is humility," Flannery O'Connor once said. This is how we fight the ego, by really knowing ourselves.

Anger and arrogance are defensive mechanisms that preclude self-evaluation. Humility is necessary for a person to step outside his or her own skin and objectively appraise oneself.

A humble person realizes that they do not know everything and demonstrates the ability to inspect their own behavior free of egotistical distortions in order to prompt growth.

Vanity breeds insanity; humility leads to utility.