Quotes About Humility

"The best person is the one who humbles himself the more his rank increases."

— Prophet Muhammad

"Life is a long lesson in humility."

— J.M. Barrie

"If you plan to build a tall house of virtues, you must first lay deep foundations of humility."

— Saint Augustine

"I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing."

— Socrates

"True humility is staying teachable, regardless of how much you already know."

— Anonymous

"Humility is crucial to real success. Humility is keeping your feet firm on the ground in spite of the achievements and triumphs you've gained."

— Unknown

"What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left."

— Oscar Levant

"Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance."

— Saint Augustine

"You shouldn't gloat about anything you've done; you ought to keep going and find something better to do."

— David Packard

"On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom."

— Michel de Montaigne

"Every one that exalted himself shall be abased; and he that humbled himself shall be exalted."

— BIBLE: Luke 18

"Build me a son who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory."

— Douglas MacArthur

"Through humility and concrete love, on the other hand, power, the highest, the strongest one, becomes a service, a force for good."

— Pope Francis, Ted Talk

"Humility does not mean placing yourself under other people's feet or firing down your passion. Humility is setting yourself free from self-centeredness and ego."

— Anonymous

"Pride is concerned with WHO is right. Humility is concerned with WHAT is right."

— Ezra Taft Benson

"I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Without humility, there can be no humanity."

— John Buchan

"I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility."

— John Ruskin

"Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue."

— Saint Augustine

"Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble."

— John Madden

"Humility isn't denying your strengths; it's being honest about your weaknesses."

— Rick Warren

"Do you wish to ascend? Start by going down. Do you want to build a tower reaching up to the heavens? Try building down the groundwork for humility."

— Anonymous

"None are as empty as those who are full of themselves."

— Benjamin Whichcote

"Being humble means that we are not on earth to see how important we can become, but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others."

— Gordon B. Hinckley

"Pride is about my glory; humility is about God's glory."

— Ephesians

"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."

— Mahatma Gandhi

"It is always the secure who are humble."

— G.K. Chesterton

"Arrogance closes more doors than it opens. Stay humble."

— Toni Payne

"A great man is always willing to be little."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Pope Francis

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

— Ernest Hemingway

"If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are."

— Mother Teresa

"Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry."

— Frank Lloyd Wright

"Humility, gentleness, and helpfulness go so much further and open doors you cannot imagine."

— Ann Tran

"A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing."

— Albert Einstein

"True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less."

— C. S. Lewis

"Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues."

— Confucius

"If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless."

— Saint Augustine

"Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them."

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"To find the balance you want, this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have four legs instead of two. That way, you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God."

— Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat, Pray, Love

"...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything."

— Patrick Suskind

"Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground."

— Theodore Roosevelt

"Humility and patience are the surest proof of Love"

— John Wesley

"Be like the bamboo the higher you grow the deeper you bow."

— Chinese Proverb

"True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue."

— Martin Luther

"Humility, like darkness reveals the heavenly lights."

— Henry David Thoreau