Education always accompanies with humanism, and any subject especially the language is shouldering the weight of humanistic quality education. Based on this, the article reviews the present situation and analyzes the reasons, and then puts forward the principles and practical approaches of humanistic quality education in the teaching of foreign language. Under the background of cultural diversity, foreign language teachers should creatively make good use of teaching materials in order to put humanistic quality education into foreign language teaching for the talents with independent thinking and innovation, the talents suitable for the development of today's society, the talents who can carry forward the Chinese excellent traditional culture of the nation and care about the ultimate future of human.