Quotes About Humility

The x factor of a great leader is humility combined with will.

I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.

My great idea is that we must forgive the Pope. First of all, he needs it more than anyone else. Besides, it is the only way of placing oneself above him.

I'm really thankful and complimented when people come to me and say, thank you for the great times for all these years. But I don't think about it as being a leader.

It is a great art to be superior to others without letting them know it.

I said I was the greatest, not the smartest.

I never pretended to be a great actor.

Asking for other's guidance helps you see what you may not be able to see. It's always important to check your ego and ask for help.

With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.

Sometimes all you need is one person with a guilty conscience to come forward and do the right thing. Often, the miracle you need resides inside of yourself, when you humbly ask for forgiveness.

O, happy the soul that saw its own faults.

Thus there will be three effects of nearness to Jesus humility, happiness, and holiness.

If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.

We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

Coarse rice to eat, water to drink, my bended arm for a pillow - therein is happiness. Wealth and rank attained through immoral means are nothing but drifting clouds.

Im not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.

Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.

There is no great path to greatness than true service. He who knows how to serve from a true heart and spirit knows what it takes to be truly great

Don't look shy if you wear rag and people gag, many are in the grave wearing skeleton, and you should even be happier for wearing a skin without clothes.

The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible

Beauty is a gift, just like good health or intelligence. The only thing is not to be proud of being beautiful. Because you didn't do anything - it was given to you.

It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

Every day, I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately, I have a great group of friends who help me do this.