Quotes About Humility

His eyes fill with tears, his deep gentleness returns to him. He goes to her and lifts her from the floor to the chair. Inarticulately he strokes her face, his heart filled with pity.–God forgives us, he says. Who am I not to forgive? Let us pray.

America has its own detectives. Some good ones, too. None as good as me, of course." "And that's the burden you bear with such humility.

We can't build anything that will impress God because He has already created the entire universe. There is one thing, however, that does attract His favor: "On this one will I look [esteem or respect]." Whom will God respect and take into account? "Him who is poor and of a contrite spirit and who trembles at My word.

The great evangelist Dwight Moody once said, "When I was a young Christian, I thought that God kept His gifts on shelves and the best gifts were on the highest shelves and I would have to reach up. I learned later the best gifts are on the lowest shelf and I had to stoop down." In

These palms are greater than Versailles,for no man made them.

The sign of the true expert is his modest awareness of how much more there is to know;

The Greeks understood this relationship between man and the machinations of the universe. Their tragedies taught us that we need to learn raw humility in the fickle face of fate. Tragic heroes marched out into the world full of pride, biased vision and a mighty capacity for self-deception. Fate ultimately brought them to their knees. The lesson for us is not that we are doomed but that we must reassess the control we think we wield.

The sign of the true expert is his modest awareness of how much more there is to know; how complex and nuanced the subject at hand insists on remaining.

There are three things I noticed about being thirty-three: Failing memory, hair loss and failing memory.

If you concern yourself with telling or showing people how interesting you are, you will at best provoke a temporary response of polite interest until even that gives way to annoyance. If you let people find it out for themselves, you become a real source of fascination.

Humility is truth.

We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.

when a man praises himself, it is intellectual suicide.

we believe our problems are the greatest and our misfortunes the worst, there is always someone out there who has suffered more.

Only when there is undiluted compassion for everyone, even our worst enemies, is ego truly conquered. Realization

Hanuman has no issues being Angad's follower. This is Hanuman's personality—always a team player, ever willing to serve, with absolutely no desire to dominate.

humility is the true measure of wisdom.

For when a man praises himself, it is intellectual suicide.

Dharma is not about winning. It is about empathy and growth. Yudhishtira knows the pain of losing a child. He can empathize with his enemy rather than gloat on their defeat. In empathy, there is wisdom.

In humility, there is faith. When there is faith, there is no fear.

Though nobleman, he can never be king. Though cowherd, he can always lead.

No one person can ever take credit for a moment in this cosmos.

Those who believed they were righteous never listened.

In Buddhist literature, we are told the story of the hamsa who was shot dead in front of the Buddha by a hunter. The Buddha looked at the hunter and asked, 'Can you bring it back to life?' The hunter replied, 'No, I cannot.' The Buddha then said, 'If you cannot give life, what gives you the right to take life?