Quotes about Humility
It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.
— Wendell Berry
...the desert is so huge, and the horizons so distant, that they make a person feel small, and as if he should remain silent.
— Paulo Coelho
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self-mastery.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Humility and patience are the surest proofs of the increase of love.
— John Wesley
Cease to be a disobedient child in the school of experience, and begin to learn, with humility and patience, the lessons that are set for your ultimate perfection.
— James Allen
There is no love of God without patience, and no patience without lowliness and sweetness of spirit.
— John Wesley
We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.
— CS Lewis
Be as humble as Moses, as patient as Job, and as virtuous as Daniel.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
By patriotism I mean the welfare of the whole people, if I secure it at the hands of my opponent, I should bow down my head to him.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Few things accelerate the peace process as much as humbly admitting our own wrongdoing and asking forgiveness.
— Lee Strobel
As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
Only humility will lead us to unity, and unity will lead to peace.
— Mother Teresa