Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Merton

One thing is certain: the humility of faith, if it is followed by the proper consequences-by the acceptance of the work and sacrifice demanded by our providential task-will do far more to launch us into the full current of historical reality than the pompous rationalizations of politicians who think they are somehow the directors and manipulators of history.

Thomas Merton

Humility is the surest sign of strength.

Tim Tebow

So much of how we act and what we do is based on humility or pride - that's everything. And when you can humble yourself, you know, we are more like Christ when we can humble ourselves.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Yet as human beings we have to accept-with humility-that the question of ultimate origins will always remain with us, no matter how deeply we understand the brain and the cosmos that it creates.

Stephen Mitchell

But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.

Starhawk

Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.

Stanley Hauerwas

Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love.

Ron Fournier

Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him.

Ron Fournier

A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics.

Rupert Graves

Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you.

Rumi

Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.

Rumi

A lover knows only humility, he has no choice. He steals into your alley at night, he has no choice. He longs to kiss every lock of your hair, don't fret, he has no choice. In his frenzied love for you, he longs to break the chains of his imprisonment, he has no choice.

Rumi

Join the community of saints and know the delight of your own Soul. Enter the ruins of your Heart and Learn the Meaning of Humility.

Steven Yeun

Maybe it's a cultural thing, being Korean, but my first reflex has always been to exude humility - but it doesn't help you in acting. For acting, humility isn't the best thing. It'll weaken your work.

Ravi Zacharias

In naturalism, man is actually very insignificant, but arrogates to himself stupendous power. In Christianity, man is actually the apex of created significance, but is called to see it in abject humility.

Humility reminds you that in order to receive value, you must create value in equal measure.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Everything is gestation and bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the dark, in the inexpressible, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one's own intelligence, and await with deep humility and patience the birth-hour of a new clarity: that alone is living the artist's life.

Serena Williams

I never left my roots. You can identify me as someone that didn't become high and mighty. Humility is a defining [trait] all of us can forever learn, and I try to be as humble as anyone can be.

Seth Gordon

I have a healthy amount of humility.

Seth Godin

I don't like offending people, and it's easy to offend people when you don't know as much as they do. This group knows more about what it takes to lead in this way than I ever will. My goal is to push people, but I need to do it from a place of respect.

Seth Godin

Our best work can't possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away from those that don't get it unlocks our ability to do great work.

Ravi Zacharias

Study hard. Understand not only the questions, but the questioner. Know how best to articulate the answers, but do it with humility, because ultimately the answer is in a person, the person of Christ, not in an argument. So, do your work and know how to present the answer, but do it with gentleness and meekness.

Rajneesh

You come to the master only in deep humbleness, because learning is possible only in humbleness. You have come to surrender, not to perform, not to manipulate, not to impress.

Socrates

Pride divides the men, humility joins them.

Michael Shannon

Humility in this business [acting] isn't just a matter of being polite, it's kind of a matter of survival. You can't ever afford to think that you're the bee's knees, because you could always afford to be better. You have to always be searching for something better.

Michael Shermer

If spirituality is the sense of awe and humility in the face of the creation, what could be more awesome and humbling than the deep space discovered by Hubble and the cosmologists, and the deep time discovered by Darwin and the evolutionists.

Paulo Freire

Dialogue cannot exist without humility.

John Selden

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.

John Selden

Humility is a virtue all men preach, none practice, and yet everybody is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servants, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity.

James Lee Burke

Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity.

John Piper

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

Martin Luther

God created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.

Philip James Bailey

Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.