Embrace the Power of Humility: 50 Inspirational Quotes

"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility."

- Saint Augustine

"It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels."

- Saint Augustine

"Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues."

- Confucius

"Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought."

- Charles Caleb Colton

"Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real."

- Thomas Merton

"To be a leader means to have humility, to have respect and to serve the people that we are leading."

- Radhanath Swami

"Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new."

- Steven Tyler

"True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us."

- Tryon Edwards

"The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility."

- Charles Caleb Colton

"Humility isn't denying your strengths; it's being honest about your weaknesses."

- Rick Warren

"I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"All streams flow to the ocean because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power."

- Lao Tzu

"Being humble means recognizing that we are not on earth to see how important we can become, but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others."

- Gordon B. Hinckley

"Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right."

- Ezra T. Benson

"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."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength."

- Criss Jami

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

"Great leaders don't need to act tough. Their confidence and humility serve to underscore their toughness."

- Simon Sinek

"Humility is the most beautiful virtue that we can develop."

- Joyce Meyer

"Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Be humble, hungry and the hardest worker in the room."

- Dwayne Johnson (The Rock)

"What are the things that you can’t see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love. You can’t see any of those, but they’re the guiding lights of a life."

- Jimmy Carter (39th U.S. President)

"Humility makes great men twice honorable."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Humility, like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights."

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Pope Francis

"There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status."

- Nelson Mandela

"Without humility there can be no humanity."

- John Buchan

"Arrogance repels. Humility inspires."

- Robin Sharma

"Humility wins. Love conquers."

- Robin Sharma

"To live free is to live in humility: you don’t pretend, you don’t show off."

- Maxime Lagacé

"Humility is, 'nothing but that simple consent of the creature to let God be all, in virtue of which it surrenders itself to His working alone.'"

- Andrew Murray

"True humility is being able to accept criticisms as graciously as we accept compliments."

- Sabrina Newby

"By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility."

- Richard Louv

"Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves."

- William Law

"Ego kills knowledge, as knowledge requires learning, and learning requires humility."

- Rolsey

"There is beauty and humility in imperfection."

- Guillermo del Toro

"Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it."

- Colin Powell

"True humility is intelligent self-respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves."

- Ralph W. Sockman

"It is a long journey, not just as a writer, but as a human being. Take nothing and no one for granted, be humble always, be kind especially when it's difficult and never forget the place where you came from and the people that helped you get where you are."

- CK Webb

"I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity."

- Vanna Bonta

"If you’re not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you."

- Mike Tyson

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Humility is royalty without a crown."

- Spencer W. Kimball

"I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs."

- George Hickenlooper

"A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing."

- Albert Einstein

"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."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."

- Harry S. Truman

"There is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive."

- Benjamin Franklin

"On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom."

- Michel de Montaigne

"A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility."

- Lawrence G. Lovasik

"Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected."

- William Safire

"He who tries to shine dims his own light."

- Lao Tzu

"It takes a big person to do something small."

- Joel Osteen

"Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself."

- Blaise Pascal

"The soft overcomes the hard. The slow overcomes the fast."

- Lao Tzu

"Many people are miserable because they think that occasional destructive feelings necessarily make them terrible persons."

- Joshua Loth Liebman

"If I only had a little humility, I’d be perfect."

- Ted Turner

"Stay humble, tables turn quick."

- Steve Harvey

"I truly believe we are all equal as human beings."

- Conor McGregor

"Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!"

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Humility is not a trait I often associate with America."

- Mira Nair

"The more humble you are, the higher you will rise."

- Unknown

"Work hard, stay humble."

- Unknown

"Humility is the key to moral excellence. It is the noblest quality a person can possess."

"Self-confidence is very important. But without compassion and humility, it's just arrogance."