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Too many people in government seem to think they are above regular folks, and I said I would expect humility in the way each member of my team served- that they would recognize that the taxpayer is boss.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.

Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.

When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

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

Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

If I had any humility I would be perfect.

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

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

One thing that golf teaches you is humility.

But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?

Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.