Today our pastor focused his message on humility. The best part of the sermon what about the elusive nature of humility. Once you think you have it you don’t. The talk inspired me to collect up some succinct and popular quotes on humility.

Enjoy

• Be humble in your confidence yet courageous in your character.
  Melanie Koulouris

• Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.
  Ezra Taft Benson

• Humility isn’t denying your strengths; it’s being honest about your weaknesses.
  Rick Warren

• An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in their understanding of things.
  Bryant H. McGill

• Only humility knows how to appreciate and admire the good qualities of others.
  Sri Chinmoy

• Life is a long lesson in humility.
  Sir James Matthew Barrie

• If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.
  St Augustine

• Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.
  Confucius

• Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
  William Penn

• Never be proud but show humility towards others, true wisdom lies in being humble.
  Shri Radhe Maa

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

• Arrogance closes more doors than it opens. Stay humble.
  Toni Payne

• Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.
  Augustine Of Hippo

• Humility, gentleness, and helpfulness go so much further and open doors you cannot imagine.
  Ann Tran

• Humility is the proper estimate of oneself.
  Charles Spurgeon

• Stay true in the dark and humble in the spotlight.
  Harold B. Lee

• Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.
  Theodore Roosevelt

• To a person who has true humility, words are vows.
  Filipino Proverb

• Humility is the greatest quality that a man can have, and arrogance is undoubtedly the worst.
  Maulana W. Khan

• Be like the bamboo the higher you grow the deeper you bow.
  Chinese Proverb

• Some people would rather die in their pride, than live in their humility.
  Anthony Liccione

• Pride makes us artificial; humility make us real.
  Thomas Merton

• Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.
  C.S. Lewis

• It’s all about humanity, humility, and integrity.
  Debra Wilson

• The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love.
  Pope Francis

• It’s about having the humility. It’s about not saying no. Even when you’ve made it. You’re never too big.
  Gary Vaynerchuk

• Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.
  Yousef Munayyer

• Pride is about my glory; humility is about God’s glory.
  Ephesians

• If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.
  Mother Teresa

• Humility, like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.
  Henry David Thoreau

• I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
  John Ruskin