Quotes About Humility

Not for the first time, as the trip kicks in, I make a note to myself: Don't be an asshole.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

And when it was clear that Svipdag was determined to leave, his father gave him a great axe, a handsome and dangerous weapon. Svip then counselled his son: "Do not envy others and avoid arrogance, for such conduct diminishes one's fame. Defend yourself if you are attacked. It is becoming to be humble, yet at the same time you must make a bold showing if put to a test.

A man must know himself thoroughly if he is going to make a good job out of trading in the speculative markets. To know what I was capable of in the line of folly was a long educational step. I sometimes think that no price is too high for a speculator to pay to learn that which will keep him from getting the swelled head.

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.

But I don't feel the need to be famous.

Have you made your selections?" Um, yeah, Gray thought. I'll have the total body meltdown with a side of what-the-hell-was-I-thinking. She, evidently, will be having the sex-goddess pot pie.

I could never live like this," I whispered to Luka. "No," he agreed. "I've seen you grovel. It's not very convincing.

I put my pants on one leg at a time, just like everyone else. It's the way I take them OFF that makes me better than you.

Care, responsibility, respect and knowledge are mutually interdependent. They are a syndrome of attitudes which are to be found in the mature person; that is, in the person who develops his own powers productively, who only wants to have that which he has worked for, who has given up narcissistic dreams of omniscience and omnipotence, who has acquired humility based on the inner strength which only genuine productive activity can give.

Vernunft ist die Fähigkeit, objektiv zu denken. Die ihr zugrunde liegende Haltung ist die Demut.

It wants to convince the reader that all his attempts for love are bound to fail, unless he tries most actively to develop his total personality, so as to achieve a productive orientation; that satisfaction in individual love cannot be attained without the capacity to love one's neighbor, without true humility, courage, faith and discipline.

Ich bin ein Schwein, murmelte Münzer und fing mit vorgeschobener Unterlippe die Tränen auf. Sie überschätzen sich, Verehrter, sagte der Handelsredakteur.

It's no shame to be born stupid. Only to die stupid.

un adevarat medic aproape niciodata nu cere ajutorul altui medic. Pentru ca sunt dureros de constienti de cat de putin stie cineva sa vindece bolnavii.

This, she found, was typical of a certain kind of German. "Whenever they come up against someone who will not stand for their arrogance, they climb down from their perch and behave," she wrote.

I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.

In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

Man has a mind that soars out to speculate about atoms and infinity, who can place himself imaginatively at a point in space and contemplate bemusedly his own planet. This immense expansion, this dexterity, this ethereality, this self-consciousness gives to man literally the status of a small god in nature... Yet, at the same time... man is a worm and food for worms

Man is naturally humble, naturally grateful, naturally guilty, naturally transcended, naturally a sufferer; he is small, pitiful, weak, a passive taker who tucks himself naturally in a beyond of superior, awesome, all-embracing power.

Even a mole may instruct a philosopher in the art of digging.

I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.