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

— Ezra Taft Benson

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

— Mother Teresa

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3. “Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil.”

— Andrew Murray

4. “I am still learning.”

— Michelangelo

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5. “Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing.”

— Lao Tzu

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6. “Pride makes us artificial; humility makes us real.”

— Thomas Merton

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7. “She does not show herself, and therefore is apparent. She does not affirm herself, and therefore is acknowledged. She does not boast and therefore has merit. She does not strive and therefore is successful. It is exactly because she does not contend, that nobody can contend with her.”

— Lao Tzu

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8. “You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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9. “Being humble means recognizing 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

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10. “If one assumes a humble attitude, one’s own good qualities will increase. Whereas if one is proud, one will become jealous of others, one will look down on others, and due to that there will be unhappiness in society.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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11. “He that is down needs fear no fall. He that is low, no pride; He that is humble, ever shall have God to be his Guide.”

— John Bunyan

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12. “The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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13. “True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.”

— C. S. Lewis

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14. “The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.”

— Ramakrishna

15. “The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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16. “Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; forty years learning he was nobody; and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody.”

— D.L. Moody

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17. “There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.”

— Ronald Reagan

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18. “In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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19. “Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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20. “I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.”

— Mother Teresa

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21. “If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he thinks you to be.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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22. “Be humble, believe in yourself, and have the love of the world in your heart.”

— Michael Jackson

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23. “Humility is the first step towards learning. You can’t learn until you are humble enough to realize there is something for you to learn.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

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24. “Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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25. “You are no better than anyone else and no one is better than you.”

— John Wooden

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26. “Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.”

— John Wooden

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27. “Be humble, or you’ll stumble.”

— D.L. Moody

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28. “To bear and not to own; to act and not lay claim; to do the work and let it go: for just letting it go is what makes it stay.”

— Lao Tzu

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29. “To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. For a man who claims to have knowledge, while actually knowing nothing, is less smart than you, who claim to know nothing.”

— Socrates

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30. “I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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31. “Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.”

— Al-Ghazali

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

— Pope Francis

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33. “Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.”

— St. Vincent de Paul

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34. “Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.”

— Og Mandino

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35. “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

36. “Stay humble, stay grounded, remember what got you to that level-and that’s hard work.”

— Tim Howard

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37. “Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.”

— Jesse Jackson

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38. “An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person’s main task in life – becoming a better person.”

— Leo Tolstoy

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39. “The only time you should look down at someone, is when you are helping them up.”

— Jesse Jackson

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40. “You are in a partnership with all other human beings, not a contest to be judged better than some and worse than others.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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

— Rick Warren

42. “The four sayings that lead to wisdom are: ‘I was wrong,’ ‘I’m sorry,’ ‘I don’t know’ and ‘I need help.’”

— Louise Penny

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43. “In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.”

— Mother Teresa

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44. “Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others.”

— Rick Warren

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45. “I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.”

— Nicholas Sparks

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46. “They ask me how I’m doing. I say better than I deserve.”

— Lecrae

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47. “If you’re not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you.”

— Mike Tyson

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48. “True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.”

— Socrates

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49. “I am more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world.”

— Lionel Messi

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50. “One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom.”

— Socrates

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