Humility quotations

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◆ Life is a long lesson in humility.

- J.M. Barrie99

◆ Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.99

◆ 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 Hiddleston99

◆ 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.

- Madeleine L'Engle99

◆ ...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.

- Patrick Süskind99

◆ True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.

- Martin Luther99

◆ A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

- Alexander Pope99

◆ Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.

- Madeleine L'Engle99

◆ He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter.

- Margery Williams99

◆ No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.

- Orson F. Whitney99

◆ Be careful not to mistake insecurity and inadequacy for humility! Humility has nothing to do with the insecure and inadequate! Just like arrogance has nothing to do with greatness!

- C. JoyBell C.99

◆ Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord, where I can go in and shut the door, and kneel to my Father in secret, and am at peace as in a deep sea of calmness, when all around and above is trouble.

- Andrew Murray99

◆ To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.

- Ursula K. Le Guin99

◆ No matter how big your house is, how recent your car is, or how big your bank account is our graves will always be the same size. Stay humble.

- 99

◆ The greatest courage you can have is the courage to admit your mistakes.

- Vikrant Parsai99