Quotes About Humility

With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.

When you are winning too much, sometimes you think you should never lose again. I am learning to lose.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know.

Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning.

Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.

On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.

The best reason for listening to and learning from the poor is that this is one way God is revealed to us.

Every step that I've taken was a learning lesson. Even to not think you're so big and so bad you can't fall.

So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?

I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

Mocking precedes learning the hard way.

Be slow to teach, and quick to learn.

Wear your learning like your watch in a private pocket and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.

Life consists of two days: one for you and one against you, so when it's for you don't be proud or reckless, and when it's against you be patient, for both days are test for you

We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own.

To live without experiencing some shame and blushes of admiration would surely be a wretched life.

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.

True karate is this: that in daily life one's mind and body be trained and developed in a spirit of humility, and that in critical times, one be devoted utterly to the cause of justice.

Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.