Quotes on Humility

Augustine	If you plan to build a tall house of virtues, you must first lay deep foundations of humility.
C S Lewis	“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.”
Francois Fenelon	Whoever will labor to get rid of self, to deny himself according to the instructions of Christ, strikes at once at the root of every evil, and finds the germ of every good.
Joyce Meyer	The only way to uproot pride is humility—freedom from pride and arrogance, a modest estimation of your own worth. It doesn’t mean you think lowly of yourself, but it means you are very careful not to think more highly of yourself than you ought to.
Zig Ziglar	When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
Madeleine L’Engle	“In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think that we have done the job ourselves. If we are forced to accept our evident lack of qualification, then there’s no danger that we will confuse God’s work with our own, or God’s glory with our own.”
Charles Wesley	Keep us little and unknown, prized and loved by God alone.
Augustine	Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Ernest Hemingway	“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
Mahatma Gandhi	“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.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson	“A great man is always willing to be little.”
Blaise Pascal	Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
C S Lewis	“As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.”
H Jackson Brown Jr	“Every person that you meet knows something you don’t; learn from them.”
J M Barrie	“Life is a long lesson in humility.”
Joyce Meyer	I think it’s safe to say that most sin stems from pride. It’s an independent spirit that wants to do its own thing without any authority or direction from anyone else.
Watchman Nee	Towards himself a Christian should have a broken spirit, but towards God it should be one of rejoicing always in Him. He rejoices not for its own sake nor because of any joyful experience, work, blessing or circumstance, but exclusively because God is his center.
Rick Warren	Pride builds walls between people, humility builds bridges.
Abraham Lincoln	“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”
Charles Spurgeon	Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Criss Jami	“To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.”
Martin Luther	“True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.”
Albert Einstein	“A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.”
C S Lewis	We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
Augustine	It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
Joni Eareckson Tada	Deny your weakness, and you will never realize God’s strength in you.
Andrew Murray	The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us in our daily conduct.