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Quotes About Humility

Imagine that it's not about the self and its concerns, about 'what's in it for me,' whether that be a blessed afterlife or prosperity in this life.
~ Marcus Borg
It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Maybe a good rule in life is never become too important to do your own laundry.
~ Barry Sanders
I have learned two things in my life: there is a God, and I am not him.
~ Rudy Ruettiger
Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
~ Fran Lebowitz
The rains of Life's Blessings cannot gather on mountaintops of pride, but flow easily into valleys of humbleness.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Worry is most often a prideful way of thinking you have more control over life and its circumstances than you actually do
~ June Hunt
Be yourself, fill your life with good people, and don't get a big head. It can all be gone tomorrow.
~ Molly Sims
Mum always taught us that compassion and kindness were the most important things in life, that it was better to be kind than right.
~ Rebecca Gibney
The keys to the life of the heart lie in reflecting upon the Quran, being humble before Allah in secret, and leaving sins.
~ Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Take heed when you think you stand, lest you fall. In this life you can fall from any level.
~ Rick Joyner
Like life, golf can be humbling. However, little good comes from brooding about mistakes we've made. The next shot, in golf or in life, is the big one.
~ Grantland Rice
If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.
~ Seneca the Younger
Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.
~ C. S. Lewis
Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.
~ Gautama Buddha
It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.
~ Millard Fillmore
Live simply so others may simply live.
~ Mother Teresa
The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow
~ William Blake
Could someone look at your life or look at my life and name me a Christian? A humbling thought for sure.
~ Chris Tomlin
I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so.
~ Althea Gibson
The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd!
~ Rowan Atkinson
The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
~ Vernon Howard
Self-deprecating or arrogant, it's all selfish. Hard as it is, life's better when you spend more time on the rest of the world
~ Patrick Stump
The losers in life think they have all the answers. They can't learn because they're too busy telling everyone what they know.
~ Robert Kiyosaki