Top 40 Humility Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.”

— Ezra Taft Benson

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2. “Humility is not denying your strengths, humility is being honest about your weaknesses.”

— Rick Warren

3. “A humble man is not afraid of failure. In fact, he is not afraid of anything, even himself, since perfect humility implies perfect confidence in the power of God.”

— Thomas Merton

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4. “Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.”

— William Arthur Ward

5. “It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.”

— Saint Augustine

6. “Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

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7. “Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall. The ground is where humility lives. Take it. Learn it. Breathe it in. And then come back stronger, humbler and more aware of your need for Him. Come back having seen your own nothingness and His greatness.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

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8. “Stay hungry, stay young, stay foolish, stay curious, and above all, stay humble because just when you think you got all the answers, is the moment when some bitter twist of fate in the universe will remind you that you very much don’t.”

— Tom Hiddleston

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9. “Humility and patience are the surest proofs of the increase of love.”

— John Wesley

10. “We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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11. “Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.”

— Saint Augustine

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12. “Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.”

— Benjamin Franklin

13. “Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.”

— Alan Cohen

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14. “Pride divides the men, humility joins them.”

— Socrates

15. “The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.”

— Mother Teresa

16. “True intimacy with God always brings humility.”

— Beth Moore

17. “Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.”

— Saint Augustine

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18. “The reality is that everybody makes mistakes. The issue isn’t whether you will make them, it’s what you will do about them. It’s whether you will choose the path of humility and courage or the path of ego and pride.”

— Stephen R. Covey

19. “Actual Gratitude is the Symptom of Humility.”

— Radhanath Swami

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20. “Humility has such power. Apologies can disarm arguments. Contrition can defuse rage. Olive branches do more good than battle axes ever will.”

— Max Lucado

21. “Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons.”

— Douglas Adams

22. “Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.”

— Albert Schweitzer

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23. “Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.”

— Ernest Hemingway

24. “I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength.”

— Khalil Gibran

25. “Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough?”

— Leo Tolstoy

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26. “You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?”

— Steven Wright

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27. “Something very beautiful happens to people when their world’s fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.”

— Marianne Williamson

28. “We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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29. “There’s a belief that you’re supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don’t see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.”

— Joel Osteen

30. “Good things come in small packages.”

— Aesop

31. “Community is where humility and glory touch.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

32. “Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.”

— Aaron Swartz

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33. “One has to be alone, under the sky, Before everything falls into place and one finds his or her own place in the midst of it all. We have to have the humility to realize ourselves as part of nature.”

— Thomas Merton

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34. “Astronomy, as nothing else can do, teaches men humility.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

35. “Do not be afraid to be holy! Have the courage and humility to present yourselves to the world determined to be holy, since full, true freedom is born from holiness.”

— Pope John Paul II

36. “The fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness, peace, humility and love. And, the root of it is faith in Christ as the manifested wisdom of God.”

— J.I. Packer

37. “The world will be saved by the western woman.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

38. “The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.”

— Abraham Maslow

39. “If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.”

— Epicurus

40. “Recite your Rosary with faith, with humility, with confidence, and with perseverance.”

— Louis de Montfort

41. “I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don’t believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody’s that smart.”

— Charlie Munger

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42. “There are always people who will be better at something than you are. You have to learn to be a follower before you become a leader.”

— Charlie Munger

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43. “Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.”

— Anonymous

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44. “The smart hawk hides its talons.”

— Japanese Proverb

45. “Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.”

— Rudyard Kipling

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