Humility – Eudaimonia

Humility That Makes Men as Angels

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. — Saint Augustine (354-430, theologian, philosopher)

Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God. — Andrew Murray (1828-1917, South African writer, pastor)

True humility is contentment. — Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881, Swiss philosopher, poet)

Humility is pride in God. — Austin O’Malley (1858-1932)

Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild. — Stephen Covey (1932-2012)

The fruit of love’s great tree is poverty; Whoever knows this knows humility. –Farid al-Din Attar (1145-1220)

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. — Mother Teresa (1910-1997)

Disasters teach us humility. — Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109)

I’ve learned… That sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand. — Andy Rooney (1919-2011)

Nature makes penicillin; I just found it. — Alexander Fleming (1881-1955)