Quotes About Humility

I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams."

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

The President last night had a dream. He was in a party of plain people and as it became known who he was they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said, "He is a common-looking man." The President replied, "Common-looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them."

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

The valley below, the rock underfoot, and the mountain before him will outlast him. On the scale of this land, he is nothing; words like "shame" and "guilt" mean little here; and a reputation is no more than a fleeting blue flame, an evanescent spirit in a brandy glass.

Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

Don't the overwhelming majority believe that mankind is the crowning achievement of Creation, that man is better than everything, even things we haven't yet investigated? And don't those people who aren't able to escape the bonds of their own ego think that the entire Universe, even the countless worlds of outer space, is just a backdrop for this ego? And yet it might be quite different.

Excellence is the product of high aspirations and low ego.

Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.

Confidence is a measure of how much you believe in yourself. Evidence shows that's distinct from how much you believe in your methods. You can be confident in your ability to achieve a goal in the future while maintaining the humility to question whether you have the right tools in the present. That's the sweet spot of confidence.

It takes confident humility to admit that we're a work in progress. It shows that we care more about improving ourselves than proving ourselves.

Pride is a dangerous sin. It eats away at our soul. It convinces us that we are better than others,

You either humble yourself, or God will do it for you.

I am no longer my own, but thine. Put me to what thou wilt, rank me with whom thou wilt. Put me to doing, put me to suffering. Let me be employed for thee or laid aside for thee, exalted for thee or brought low for thee. Let me be full, let me be empty. Let me have all things, let me have nothing. I freely and heartily yield all things to thy pleasure and disposal. And now, O glorious and blessed God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, thou art mine, and I am thine. So be it.

Sometimes God asks us to be with people we don't want to be with, to go to places we don't want to go to, and to do things we don't want to do.

God favors the humble rather than the proud. God's greatest work in our lives may be difficult and challenging, and we may never receive recognition or the praise of others, but we are called to serve anyway, seeking nothing more than God's satisfaction and glory.

Look at a wild creature- even hold it in your hand- and it is obvious that you don't 'have' it. You hold it but everything it is stretches far beyond your enclosing fingers, in time and space and through its own interior existence. You may posess it, even for a moment, but it is not yours... Whatever it is to be known remains outside the grip of our knowing it.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every talent which a man can be possessed of. It heightens all the virtues which it accompanies; like the shades of paintings, it raises and rounds every figure, and makes the colours more beautiful, though not so glowing as they would be without it.

Alles, was der Mensch tut, unvollkommen ist. Aber wer will sich schon seine Unvollkommenheit eingestehen?

Living with real children can be humbling. Every morning I would tell myself, "Today is going to be different

Living with real children can be humbling.

Dengan segala kehebatannya dalam dunia keilmuan, tengoklah bagaimana sikap 'tahu diri' seorang al-Ghazali. Beliau tetap menempatkan dirinya di bawah mazhab Shafii dalam soal metodologi ushul fiqh. Beliau tidak merasa lebih hebat dari Shafii. Banyak ilmuan besar Islam tetap memelihara sikap adil dan beradab dalam mengkaji dan menyebarkan ilmu kepada masyarakat.

Although the text of this first, primitive, Rule has never been found, there is a general consensus that in essence it required: Poverty, Chastity, Humility, Obedience to God, Prayer, Work, Harmony, and Preaching.