Quotes about Humility
The ideal man, takes joy in doing favours for others; but he feels ashamed to have others do favours for him. For it is a mark of superiority to confer a kindness; but it is a mark of inferiority to receive it.
— Aristotle
The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
To underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
— Soren Kierkegaard
The higher life begins for us ... when we renounce our own will to bow before a Divine law.
— George Eliot
Win without boasting, lose without excuses - internalize your failures and externalize your victories.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Authentic Christian living has its own order of priority in our lives: God first, others second, self third.
— Billy Graham
I can think of God as my savior and even my friend, but I must never forget that He is God, and after He saves me, I must put myself in subjection to Him and His will.
— Lori Wick
The first and wisest of them all professed to know this only, that he nothing knew.
— John Milton
Whoever is truly humbled — will not be easily angry, nor harsh or critical of others. He will be compassionate and tender to the infirmities of his fellow-sinners, knowing that if there is a difference — it is grace alone which has made it!
— John Newton
We learn to tread more warily, to trust less to our own strength, to have lower thoughts of ourselves, and higher thoughts of Him; in which two last particulars I apprehend what the Scripture means by a growth of grace does properly consist. Both are increasing in the lively Christian: —-every day shows him more of his own heart, and more of the power, sufficiency, compassion, and grace of his adorable Redeemer; but neither will be complete till we get to Heaven. I
— John Newton
We learn to tread more warily, to trust less to our own strength, to have lower thoughts of ourselves, and higher thoughts of Him; in which two last particulars, I apprehend what the Scripture means by a growth of grace does properly consist. Both are increasing in the lively Christian—every day shows him more of his own heart, and more of the power, sufficiency, compassion, and grace of his adorable Redeemer; but neither will be complete till we get to Heaven.
— John Newton