Quotes About Humbleness

It's good that somebody has finally cut me down to size, has broken my pride, because I've been far too smug.

I know me, and I know that I'm not somebody that particularly merits a lot of screaming and shouting. And there's nothing special about me as opposed to hundreds of thousands of other people everywhere.

Every time we start thinking we're the center of the universe, the universe turns around and says with a slightly distracted air, "I'm sorry. What'd you say your name was again?"

I know it's important to stay humble.

I'm humble, because I live quite humbly.

Humility is important.

Francis de Sales, a sixteenth-century bishop, said, "We often say that we are nothing, that we are misery itself and the refuse of the world, but we would be very sorry if anyone took us at our word or told others that we are really such as we say.

For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.

Don't flatter yourself. We're all specks of dust in the universe.

Never be proud but show humility towards others, true wisdom lies in being humble.

I think it's noteworthy that the Almighty didn't act high and mighty. The Holy One wasn't holier-than-thou. The One who knew it all wasn't a know-it-all. The One who made the stars didn't keep his head in them. The One who owns all the stuff of earth never strutted it.

I mean it takes a certain kind of maturity to live in the South these days. You don't have it yet, but you have a shadow of the beginnings of it. You haven't the humbleness of mind- I thought the fear of the Lord was the beginning of wisdom. It's the same thing. Humility.

What I needed and actually need is a discipline of tradition, which is lacking in our civilization. Discipline of tradition and the ceremony of humbleness.

Let's make the best possible use of our feet first and learn to know ourselves. And yet it seems to me that we will never know ourselves unless we seek to know God. Glimpsing his greatness, we recognize our own powerlessness; gazing upon his purity, we notice where we are impure; pondering his humility, we see how far from humble we are.

The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.

Humility is endless.

He who thinks that he is finished, is finished. How true. Those who think that they have arrived, have lost their way. Those who think they have reached their goal, have missed it. Those who think they are saints, are demons.

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

I am not smarter than anyone else.

It is always the secure who are humble.

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

On humbleness. — To be humble to superiors is duty; to equals is courtesy; to inferiors is nobleness; and to all, safety!

It takes so much to make you feel big in this world. It only takes an ocean to make you feel tiny.

that a warrior, aware of the unfathomable mystery that surrounds him and aware of his duty to try to unravel it, takes his rightful place among mysteries and regards himself as one. Consequently, for a warrior there is no end to the mystery of being, whether being means being a pebble, or an ant, or oneself. That is a warrior's humbleness. One is equal to everything.