When you prostrate before elders, the mind too must be humble; it is not the body alone that should bend. (SSS Vol.1)

Treat every one as your own people and even if you cannot do them any good, desist from causing them any injury. Burn the lamp of love inside the niche of your heart and then the nocturnal birds of greed and envy will fly away, unable to bear the light. Prema makes you humble; it makes you bend and bow when you see greatness and glory. An unbending person is infected with egoism of the worst type; remember man is the only animal that can recognise and revere the great and the glorious. Use that capacity and derive the best advantage out of it.  (SSS Vol.1)

Talk sweet without anger. Do not boast of your scholarship or attainments. Be humble, eager to serve; conserve your speech. Practise silence. That will save you from squabbles, idle thoughts and factions. (SSS Vol.2)

Be humble, be calm, be tolerant. Co-operate with all and treat every one with courtesy and kindness. (SSS Vol.3)

Every human being is engaged in battle, with insidious internal foes. How can anyone move about, with raised head and proud mien, when his enemies are celebrating their victory inside him? It is a matter of stark humiliation, isn’t it? The forces of lust, greed, anger, hate, pride, malice, envy and avarice are celebrating triumphant victory-dances in the heart while the humbled victim, the prisoner in their hands, expects to be honoured and lionised. The internal foes can be destroyed by the light of jnana (the illumination that accompanies the realisation of the Reality). To acquire that illumination, one has to cultivate the spirit of impartial, steady, unfluctuating inquiry, based on the revelations made in the Vedas about the nature of man and God, and the relation between the two. (SSS Vol.8)

Your pilgrimage to this place on this occasion is but a part of the long pilgrimage upon which you entered when you were born, which may not end even when you die. Do not forget that fact. Be pure, alert and humble as pilgrims ought to be. Treasure the good things you see and the basic truths you hear. Use them as props and promptings for further stages of the journey.  (SSS Vol.8)

Do not be conceited because of your studies,

What is great about your learning?

The hall-mark of education is humility,

Realising that what is yet to be learnt is limitless.

Shed your ignorance and pride, O witless one!

Learn to be humble in pursuing knowledge. (SSS Vol.27, 1994)