Quotes About Humility

There is no shame in not knowing something," he said gently. "The shame is in not being willing to learn

I don't know everything. No one does, and only the foolish seek to.

It is ever the way of the Knowing. I have often thought it is like a light blooming on a dark sea: as it increases, so does the depth and size of the unknown. The most wise are those who know how little they know!

There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.

Some say an army of horsemen some an army on foot others say ships laden for war are the fairest things on earth. But I say the fairest sight on this dark earth is the face of the one you love. Nor is it hard to understand: love has humbled the hearts of the proudest queens. And I would rather see you now stepping over my threshold than any soldier greaved in gold or any iron-beaked ship.

My lady, for your virtue and goodness, God would receive you in rags.

The best of men are just men at best.

The truth is that we are not good people who make mistakes; we are sinful people in need of mercy. Because it requires humility to accept what our hearts are truly like, those same hearts will tend to prefer to be deceived by preachers of self-esteem and self-confidence rather than listen to prophets such as Jeremiah.

Prayer loosens the grip of envy on our hearts.

What will bring us into line with His compassion and send us joyfully on His mission? Simply this: to understand that we are no better than anyone else—no less deserving of His wrath and no more deserving of His kindness. As it demonstrates the mercy of God, the cross humbles our hearts and fills them with the same compassion and grace that took His Son to Calvary.

Jesus came to do not His own will but His Father's (John 6:38). As a result, He accepted hardship. He was isolated and ill-treated. He endured malice, misunderstanding, and death. Jesus was broken in order that our broken lives may be repaired and transformed. It was He who came to die on a cross, submitting Himself to the will of the Father, in order that He might provide a ransom for all who are humble enough to bow down and say, "That is the very Savior I need.

Nature wanted to show mankind, an irreverent, over-venturesome mankind, just how puny and pitifully helpless a thing mankind really is…

Quanto a mim, antes quero que os outros fiquem com os defeitos, do que compartilhar deles.

3. Toda a moral de Jesus se resume na caridade e na humildade, isto é, nas duas virtudes contrárias ao egoísmo e ao orgulho.

Los que hacen bien con ostentación han recibido ya la recompensa"; en efecto, el que busca su glorificación en la tierra por el bien que ha hecho, él mismo se ha pagado; Dios ya no le debe nada; sólo le falta recibir el castigo de su orgullo.

Guardaos de confundir la fe con la presunción. La verdadera fe se aviene con la humildad; el que la posee pone su confianza en Dios más que en sí mismo, porque sabe que, simple instrumento de la voluntad de Dios, nada puede sin El, y por esto los buenos Espíritus vienen en su ayuda. La presunción más bien es orgullo que fe, y el orgullo es siempre castigado, más o menos tarde, por los desengaños y las desgracias que sufre.

De que lhe serve, finalmente, humilhar-se diante de Deus, se, perante os homens, conserva o seu orgulho?

perdonar las ofensas es reconocer que uno se vuelve mejor. Perdonad, pues, amigos míos, a fin de que Dios os perdone, porque sois duros, exigentes, inflexibles, y si además tenéis rigor por una ligera ofensa, ¿cómo queréis que Dios olvide, cuando todos los días tenéis gran necesidad de indulgencia?

cuántos tormentos se ahorra el que sabe contentarse con lo que tiene, que ve sin envidia lo que no tiene, que no pretende parecer más de lo que es! Siempre es rico, porque si mira hacia abajo en vez de mirar hacia arriba, siempre verá gentes que aun tienen menos; vive tranquilo, porque no se crea necesidades quiméricas, y la calma en medio de los huracanes de la vida ¿no es acaso una felicidad?

Muitas pessoas se contentam em evitar o escândalo, pois seu orgulho sofreria com isso, sua reputação seria diminuída entre os homens.

Leadership is about being a servant first.

to serve so selflessly, you have to subdue something in yourself.

I've been wrong, and I've been crazy. But this is the first time I've ever truly felt like a fool.

The remedy for selfishness is service. The remedy for arrogance is humility. The remedy for confusion is the clarity earned by living your code of values and speaking of it with others. Truth, kindness, and affirming the positive instead of emphasizing the negative are some of the value's that will help you to come back into grace.