2,389 Quotes About Humility

A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being

The greatest accomplishment of all is to recognize that we were freely handed two extraordinary gifts that we had no part in creating. The first is a talent to cultivate, and the second is the opportunity to cultivate it.

In humility is the greatest freedom. As soon as you begin to take yourself seriously and imagine that your virtues are important because they are yours, you become the prisoner of your own vanity and even your best works will blind and deceive you. Then, in order to defend yourself, you will begin to see sins and faults everywhere in the actions of other[s].

Have you ever noticed how the most intriguing individual in the room seems content to listen sooner than speak?

Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own faults should make a man humbler, when it is beneficial, not prouder, which the thought that he ought to have been above these faults makes him.

With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.

Every generation is undersupplied with people who publicize their failures but hide their successes, and oversupplied with those who do the opposite.

Humility is a rare yet valued accessory that looks good on everyone.

Talk about presidents "taking" the country hither and yon is part of the foam of presidential elections.