Quotes About Humbleness

I am not a savior.

You don't want to be that big shot, some guy who's some... whatever.

The most important single thing we had to pound into ourselves is that we were not important, we musn't be pedants; we were not to feel superior to anyone else in the world. We're nothing more than dust jackets for books, of no significance otherwise.

Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty (snobbish, high-minded, exclusive), but readily adjust yourself to [people, things] and give yourselves to humble tasks.

there would be no "humiliation" if we had learned to put self in its place, to see ourselves in proper perspective before God and other men.

One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God. — Frederick Buechner

humility is the first and greatest of virtues.

This is what it must feel like to be an ant among elephants , Akira thought. The giant sequoias made her feel small and insignificant, but in a good way. They reminded her that she wasn't at the center of the universe. That there were things that were far older and bigger than she was.

I'm not going to try and sit here and be Superman.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

Realise well, proud little man that even the highest clouds don't shine! For above all things there lie brightest stars.

If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too much for us, let it be the measure of our virtue that we know this and seek no comfort.

It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance

Proudness is from ignorance, humbleness is from wisdom

Humbleness, forgiveness, clarity and love are the dynamics of freedom. They are the foundations of authentic power.

Could not but think, as I have often remarked to others, that much more of true religion consists in deep humility, brokenness of heart, and an abasing sense of barrenness and want of grace and holiness than most who are called Christians imagine

They that know God will be humble. They that know themselves cannot be proud.

Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God.

The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.

Find godliness and good will come on its own accord. And when good comes on its own accord, it has a beauty, a grace, a simplicity, a humbleness.

Learn to humble yourself, you are but earth and clay.

When people begin to praise us, let us hurry to remember the multitude of ours transgressions, and we will see that we are truly unworthy of that which they say and do in our honor.

Don't be cocky. Don't be flashy. There's always someone better than you.

You come to the master only in deep humbleness, because learning is possible only in humbleness. You have come to surrender, not to perform, not to manipulate, not to impress.