Quotes About Humility

Humility stops you from overestimating your own significance and it enables you to accept, understand, and live with failures and learn from them constructively.

proverb, "A man's pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will obtain honor.

Humble people share the credit of their success, and accept their failures with courage and character.

Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success.

A man's pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will obtain honor.

humility was the key to staying focused and to keeping a winning mind-set, as well as the key to accepting setbacks and turning them to positives.

Do not jockey for position or try to prove your importance to others with a lot of hollow, empty boasting and self-promotion. Instead, have a modest opinion of yourself, and learn to recognize the outstanding contributions that others have to impart.

Annabeth:My fatal flaw. That's what the Sirens showed me. My fatal flaw is hubris. Percy: the brown stuff they spread on veggie sandwiches? Annabeth:No, Seaweed Brain. That's HUMMUS. hubris is worse. Percy: what could be worse than hummus? Annabeth: Hubris means deadly pride, Percy. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else... Even the gods.

Significance in life doesn't come from status, because you can always find somebody who's got more than you. It doesn't come from sex. It doesn't come from salary. It comes from serving.

It's not about you.

True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others.

If you want God to bless you and use you greatly, you must be willing to walk with a limp the rest of your life, because God uses weak people.

A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.

The best advice I've ever received is, 'No one else knows what they're doing either.

Remember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others. The same applies when you are stupid.

Animals are not here for us to do as we please with. We are not their superiors, we are their equals. We are their family. Be kind to them.

How fine to be willing to admit that one does not know what one does not know, instead of spewing out such nonsense and disgusting oneself!' (Cicero, On the Nature of the Gods).

It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing.

she'd also said more than once that I wasn't half as clever as I thought I was. Considering what I thought of myself, that still made me pretty damn clever.

But it's hard to be judgmental about anybody when you're no angel yourself, so you live and let live without recognizing danger up ahead.

People who sneer at a half a loaf of bread have never been hungry." George Reedy

There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one else knows either.

You have any suggestions, make them. I'm in charge but humble. No need to salute when you see me." Fraser said, "Mind if we snicker every once in a while behind your back?" "Hell, no," I said. "Everyone else does.