Quotes on Humility

If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it.

Honesty,sincer ity,simplicity, humility, pure generosity,abse nce of vanity,readines s to serve others -qualities which are within easy reach of every soul -are the foundation of one's spiritual life.

The world can be better if there's love, tolerance and humility.

We must in strength and humility meet hate with love.

If the immutable heart can be grieved by the puppets of its own making, it is Divine Omnipotence, no other, that has subjected it, freely, and in a humility that passes understanding. If the world exists not chiefly that we may love God, but that God may love us, yet that very fact, on a deeper level, is so for our sakes. If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.

The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love.

Let us contemplate the humility of the Son of God born into poverty. Let us imitate him by sharing with those who are weak.

If there is no humility, love remains blocked.

I think with great affection and deep gratitude of my venerable predecessor, Benedict XVI, who during these years of his pontificate has enriched and strengthened the Church with his teaching, his goodness, his guidance, his faith, his humility, and his gentleness, which will remain a spiritual heritage for all.

Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.

GLOUCESTER: I do not know that Englishman alive With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night: I thank my God for my humility.

The spirit of humility is sweeter than honey, and those who nourish themselves with this honey produce sweet fruit.

The Lord called me by the way of simplicity and humility, and this way He hath shown me in truth for me and those who will believe and imitate me. And therefore I would that ye name not to me any rule, neither of St. Augustine, nor St. Benedict, nor of Bernard, nor any way or form of living, but that which was mercifully shown and given me by the Lord.

The noble must make humility his root.

Dialogue cannot exist without humility.

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

That’s why an artist must be a warrior and, like all warriors, artists over time acquire modesty and humility. They may, some of them, conduct themselves flamboyantly in public. But alone with the work they are chaste and humble. They know they are not the source of the creations they bring into being. They only facilitate. They carry. They are the willing and skilled instruments of the gods and goddesses they serve.

The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of a certain type of Christian thought has seriously impaired this capacity, which nonviolence must recover.