Surrender is not a weakness, but rather an empowering state of humility.

It’s okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn’t give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse...

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.

Going to church is a beautiful act of humility. You are saying to the world, “I need God and His family.

Abilene had gone from boomtown to Bible Belt, from whorehouses to schoolmarms, without any of the intervening phases.

Success follows those who champion a cause greater than themselves.

The common man prays, ‘I want a cookie right now!’ And God responds, ‘If you’d listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.

You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won’t do a thing unless you believe it yourself.

Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label ‘artist’ is to be used lightly.

The certificate that promotes a divine idea is humility. Period. Get yourself upgraded with the good news of humility every day! Sometimes, it’s hard to prove your humility in the face of people, but never...

Let us make our way through these low valleys of the humble and little virtues. We shall see in them the roses amid the thorns, charity that shows its beauty among interior and exterior afflictions,...

From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.

Love the life you have been given. And be humbled by it. It is not to be despised.

Early in my career…I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility… I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I’ve never been sorry.

Knowing and thinking exist for the sake of love — for the sake of building people up in faith. Thinking that produces pride instead of love is not true thinking.

While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.

Stay Humble. Often anger comes from our own ego and pride. We don’t get our own way and so we get angry. But remember, it’s not all about you. 🙂 There are other people on...

Albeit i may die sleep not in the coffen of gold and even beer no fruit; but my impact after depart is my particular to paradise.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now...

One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.

Many times when we help we do not really serve. . . . Serving is also different from fixing. One of the pioneers of the Human Potential Movement, Abraham Maslow, said, “If all you have...

I keep a vivid memory of failure in my back pocket, so no matter how much I accomplish I stay grounded.

Humility is as good for the soul as it is for the memory

POWER is the demonstration of comparative difference of wealth & influence. HUMBLENESS is to ignore the difference, even if it is exist.

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

Pride is a human nature and it’s good for people to be proud of themselves, achievements, etc. but too much of anything is not healthy. Humble is pride exhibited through humility, so be humble and...

If you ask an Irishman for directions, he might be quick to answer, Well if I were going there, I would not start here.

Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis.

The Church has little idea how unorthodox it is at any given moment. If a church can’t yet be perfectly orthodox, it can, with the Holy Spirit’s help and by the grace of God, be...

You must therefore conceal from the patient the true end of Humility. Let him think of it, not as self-forgetfulness, but as a certain kind of opinion (namely, a low opinion) of his own talents...

Humility puts others first because “first” takes on new meaning through the practice of humility.

A person can perhaps trust his eyes only to the amount of truth his heart does not mind to speak openly to the people to touch their souls in this selfish world full of lies.

It is an illusion to worry about pride without having those things that may predispose someone to fall into the trap of pride…

And then I decided to be pro me. Be pro you to the end. No more cutting up myself and serving up myself like pieces of a pie for everyone’s tasteless palates. And that doesn’t...

I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so modestly...

Ask with Confidence, listen with humility.

It’s much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.

No matter how great you are, you could always be greater. Let this be a lesson in the need to lessen the size of your ego.

If you are ‘humble’, it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things.

The author describes megalomania as seen in Chairman Mao by saying that what he was familiar with, he was really familiar with. This zeal moved the megalomaniac with a complete lack of appreciation for what...

To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.

The faculty to think objectively is reason; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of humility. To be objective, to use one’s reason, is possible only if one has achieved an attitude of humility, if...

A humble man speaks not of his own humility

If you have to walk along a dark mountain path, don’t you prefer to have a flashlight to shine on the path ahead? I would suggest that it is possible to have that flashlight in...

In my own book-signings, I find humility. It’s always humbling when people go out of their way to come visit with me and by some of my books.

One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.

I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you...

People with disabilities are sometimes very humble and approachable, if you want a seasoned reputation, then behave like one of the handicaps.

It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.

There is only one certain test of the virtue and that is humiliation. The acceptance of humiliation alone shows the depth and reality of our humility.