Moral Humility Quotes

No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.

Politics is less than perfect because we are less than perfect. We therefore need to approach it with some modesty. Politics is not like mathematics, where clear premises and deductive reasoning can lead to exact answers.

I also feel like I've done plenty of wrong things. I'm not innocent here, and I'm certainly not going to be righteous about that.

Yes, I have my standpoint, but I try to follow the life of Christ and he was very non-judgmental. It's not my position to judge. It's God's position to judge.

Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.

The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

As long as I don't look down upon any characters, that's fine. The moment I do that - the moment I think I'm superior or that others are inferior - I'm finished as an artist and as a human being.

We shall act with good intentions, but at times we will be wrong. When we are, let us admit it and try to right the situation.

Verily, I constantly renew my Islam until this very day, as up to now, I do not consider myself to have ever been a good Muslim.

If you're a Christian you can't have an "I'm better than" attitude toward anyone because everybody is somebody for whom Jesus died.

When it comes to understanding and appreciating grace, our biggest problem is our so-called goodness...not our self-perceived badness.

A conservative is someone who does not think he is morally superior to his grandfather.

The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair

Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.

'The Truth' is not meant to preach or point any fingers. It's meant to show that perhaps we should all avoid taking the moral high ground unless we have thought about things a bit more.

How easy it is to think well of ourselves. Until the moment is upon us, we can never be certain.

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

...The God I know is one that promotes peace and freedom. But I get great sustenance from my personal relationship. That doesn't make me think I'm a better person than you are, by the way. Because one of the great admonitions in the Good Book is, don't try to take a speck out of your eye if I've got a log in my own.

What honest boy would pride himself on not picking pockets ? A thief who was trying to reform would. To be conceited of doing one's duty is then a sign of how little one does it, and how little one sees what a contemptible thing it is not to do it. Could any but a low creature be conceited of not being contemptible? Until our duty becomes to us common as breathing, we are poor creatures.

In my religion it's actually better to know you're doing wrong and try to improve that wrong than to think philosophically that what you're doing is right and in fact it is wrong.

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

I think I'm a pretty moral guy, a very moral guy, but I'm not perfect.

My character is not flawless.