HUMILITY/HAUGHTINESS

Haughtiness goes before destruction; humility precedes honor.

Proverbs 18:12

True humility and fear of the Lord lead to riches, honor, and long life.

Proverbs 22:4

Pride ends in humiliation, while humility brings honor.

Proverbs 29:23

Few things are as humbling as a three-way mirror.

As the nightingale instinctively flees from the sound of the hawk, so does the beauty of humility vanish in the presence of pride.

William A. Ward

Humility is to make the right estimate of yourself.

Charles Spurgeon

Don’t be humble; you’re not that great.

Golda Meir

The fellow who does things that count doesn’t usually stop to count them.

One of the hardest secrets for a man to keep is his opinion of himself.

To be humble to superiors is duty; to equals, courtesy; to inferiors, nobility.

Those traveling the highway of humility won’t be bothered by heavy traffic.

Sincere humility attracts. Lack of humility subtracts. Artificial humility detracts.

Humility is like underwear—essential, but indecent if it shows.

Helen Neilson

I used to think that God’s gifts were on shelves—one above the other and the taller we grew, the more easily we could reach them. I now find that God’s gifts are on shelves one beneath the other and that it is not a question of growing taller but of stooping lower.

F. B. Meyer

God created the world out of nothing, and as long as we are nothing, he can make something out of us.

Martin Luther

Humility is remaining teachable.

Humility is a strange thing; the moment you think you have it, you have lost it.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Helen Keller

There is a big difference between humility and stupidity.

Alfred Armand Montapert

The most thankful people are the humblest.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility.

John Ruskin

Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.

Jonathan Edwards

The person with true humility never has to be shown his place; he is always in it.

Stay humble or stumble.

The best way to be right or wrong is humbly.

Humility is one of the qualities that is missing in the “self-made” man.

Humility is a wonderful trait, but it doesn’t help you to get waited on in a crowded store.

The person who looks up to God rarely looks down on people.

Humility makes a man feel smaller as he becomes greater.

Humility is elusive. It is such a fragile plant that the slightest reference to it causes it to wilt and die.