(328 quotes found)
“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
“What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God”
Monica Baldwin
“True humility is contentment.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
“There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.”
“Humility is like underwear, essential, but indecent if it shows”
Helen Nielsen
“Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.”
Swami Sivananda
“It ain't the heat; it's the humility.”
Yogi Berra
“We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.”
C.S. Lewis
