Quotes on Humility

What you select from, in order to tell your story, is nothing less than everything. What you build up your world from, your local, intelligible rational, coherent world, is nothing less than everything. . . . . All human knowledge is local. Every life, each human life is local, is arbitrary, the infinitesimal momentary glitter of a reflection.

Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

When one gets beaten by somebody better, one has to know how to lose with humility. Sure, I could have served better. Sure, I could have hit my forehand harder. But the truth was this was like an avalanche, and there was no way to stop it.

There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - difficulties, contradictions, humiliations, all the soul's miseries, her burdens, her needs - everything, because through them, she learns humility, realizes her weakness. Everything is a grace because everything is God's gift. Whatever be the character of life or its unexpected events - to the heart that loves, all is well.

The self says, I am; The heart says, I am less; The spirit says, you are Nothing.

Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.

Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses.

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

The root of all virtue and grace, of all faith and acceptable worship, is that we know that we have nothing but what we receive, and bow in deepest humility to wait upon God for it.

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Humility is not denying your strengths, humility is being honest about your weaknesses.

She loved the teachings of the Five Visions. Humility. Sacrifice. Seeing another's problems before your own. Yet she was beginning to think that she-- along with others-- had taken this belief too far, letting her desire to seem humble become a form of pride itself. She now saw that when her faith had become about clothing instead of people, it had taken a wrong turn.

Hope is practiced through the virtue of patience, which continues to do good even in the face of apparent failure, and through the virtue of humility, which accepts God's mystery and trusts him even at times of darkness.

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.