Quotes About Humility

What I know makes me money. What I don't know loses me money. Every time I have been arrogant, I have lost money. Because when I'm arrogant, I truly believe that what I don't know is not important.

If you have read this far, arrogance is not one of your problems. Arrogant people rarely read or listen to experts. Why should they? They are the center of the universe.

intelligence combined with arrogance equals ignorance.

Money and success make you arrogant and stupid. Now with some poverty and humility behind you, you can become a student again.

Intelligent people can be ignorant if they combine their smarts with arrogance. A truly intelligent person, on the other hand, welcomes new ideas.

Even skeptical Dan prayed, his skepticism falling away from him like a discarded garment in this valley of the shadow, which sifts out hearts and tries souls, until we all, grown-up or children, realize our weakness, and, finding that our own puny strength is as a reed shaken in the wind, creep back humbly to the God we have vainly dreamed we could do without.

Folks say I'm good, he remarked whimsically upon one occasion, but I sometimes wish the Lord had made me only half as good and put the rest of it into looks. But there, I reckon He knew what He was about, as a good Captain should. Some of us have to be homely, or the purty ones—like Mistress Blythe here—wouldn't show up so well.

Even skeptical Dan prayed, his skepticism falling away from him like a discarded garment in this valley of the shadow, which sifts out hearts and tries souls, until we all, grown-up or children, realize our weakness, and, finding that our own puny strength is as a reed shaken in the wind, creep back humbly to the God we have vainly dreamed we could do without. Peter

I reckon the gods laugh many a time to hear us, but what matters so long as we remember that we're only men and don't take to fancying that we're gods ourselves, really, knowing good and evil.

Even eighty-odd is sometimes vulnerable to vanity.

an infinite Power must be infinitely little as well as infinitely great. We are neither, therefore there are things too little as well as too great for us to apprehend.

It's very vain of you to say so then. You'd better let your teacher say it.

I think, said Jane decidedly, that I should apologise to God.

The queen was the first to admit she was no angel, for her sins were manifold, and in the quiet of her chapel, she even confessed the possibility that she was "unworthy of eternal life, if not of the royal dignity.

As the days passed, I began to look upon my fate with new eyes. I often lamented the wicked turns my life had taken, but I rarely considered how much I had to be thankful for, how I had survived so long where so many others had perished, how I had seen wonders that no other Zamori had... I had been so intent on counting all the miseries and humiliations I had endured that I neglected to thank the Almighty for the blessings he had bestowed upon me.

Debo renunciar a mi fascinación por mí mismo ante el beneficio de una preocupación más compatible con la naturaleza del objetivo de Dios. No estoy yo en el centro. Sino Dios. Existo por él y no existe él por mí.

nos importa más la curación de nuestros sufrimientos que el perdón de nuestros pecados; consideramos que la bondad de Dios se da por sentado y no nos maravillamos de la sorpresa de la gracia; pensamos que su objetivo es ayudarnos en el presente más que desarrollar en nosotros una mayor humildad.

Nobody moves toward real Christlikeness without humility. Humility is not a bad self-image or a nonassertive personality. Humility is an eager willingness to see where you are wrong in order to experience the power of God that has already made you fit for His presence.

Working diligently to straighten up our actions without understanding either what it means to deeply repent or what it is that needs to be scrubbed away by repentance will make us more smug than penetrating. We'll pressure others to do right rather than draw them to want to do right. P195

I sometimes think the sexual organs were put there to keep the human race humble, she said. They've certainly kept me humble.

Her own folly amused her: she had once thought of herself as smart—but look at where she was.

don't care if they're horses or women or Indians or what. I learned long ago there's much to be said for dumbness.

Call had never noticed that he had a trick. The man never wasted five minutes appreciating himself; it would have meant losing five minutes off whatever job he had decided he wanted to get done that day.

Norwegian way of keeping all our earthly affairs from achieving too much importance.