Quotes about Humility

How many of us will ever sit... bow our heads and pray "Lord show me where I'm wrong"?

Before we can pray "Lord Thy Kingdom come " we must be willing to pray "My Kingdom go."

It is impossible to lose your footing while on your knees.

Man is the only creature which rises by bowing for he finds elevation in his subjection to his Maker.

Being open to correction means making ourselves vulnerable, and many people are not willing to do that.

Pride adversely affects all our relationships - our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and employee, teacher and student, and all mankind.

What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?

I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself one way or the other at all. . . . The humility which consists in being a great deal occupied about yourself, and saying you are of little worth, is not Christian humility. It is one form of self-occupation and a very poor and futile one at that.

The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.