Quotes About Humility

To the devil with every miserable desire to seem more than one is.

cuando se es joven hay que ser un cero a la izquierda, pues no existe nada más perjudicial que destacar pronto, prematuramente, en cualquier cosa.

The root of the issue is pride. We think of ourselves as thoughtful and in control. We think of ourselves as wiser than the God who planned all things from beginning to end. We think we can see the future, disbelieving God and believing ourselves.

El origen del problema es el orgullo. Nos consideramos serios y en control. Nos creemos más sabios que el Dios que planeó todas las cosas desde el principio hasta el final. Pensamos que podemos ver el futuro, desobedeciendo a Dios y creyéndonos a nosotros mismos.

Life itself is too great a miracle for us to make so much fuss about potty little reversals of what we pompously assume to be the natural order.

If I tarted up in a nice suit and a clean collar, I could spend hours and hours every week jawing to Rotary Clubs about what fine music is and how I am just as good as they are. I'm not as good as they are, praise be God! I am a honest citizen, I am not fit to black their boots.

You know what they say assuming does. It makes an ass out of you and me, but mostly just me.

Stay a little while longer, and let everyone congratulate you - including the ones who clearly don't want to: in fact, especially the ones who clearly don't want to. You don't have to say anything but 'thank you

I'd learned to fish because Mel taught me, not because I longed to impale small invertebrates on barbed hooks and rip hell out of piscine oral cavities and smother fellow oxygen breathers in an alien medium

For I have been often wrong, and whilst the training of the Church has taught me to admit it, somehow I have never learnt not to be wrong in the first place.

The more successful you and your organization become, the more humble and devoted to your customers you need to be.

industry, compassion, humility, patience, honesty and courage.

What a life! All that money and all I could eat was bread and water.

The Great High Wire Walker "You can accomplish anything in life, provided that you do not mind who gets the credit.

However, just like this cup, you seem to be full of your own ideas. And how can any more go in . . . until you first empty your cup?

You can accomplish anything in life, provided that you do not mind who gets the credit." Harry S. Truman

I've learned that the bigger the ego, the weaker the performance.

Creo que el más modesto es el más grande. Los líderes natos están tan seguros de sí mismos que su principal objetivo es elevar a los demás.

Memento homo' is Latin for 'remember you are only a man

Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don't have to know Einstein's Theory of Relativity to serve. You don't have to know the Second Theory of Thermodynamics and Physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

Mother Teresa said, "there should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

There is something special about being in the presence of a person who is genuinely humble. Practicing humility shows that you respect others and reminds us that there is so much for us yet to learn. It sends a signal to those around you that you are open to receiving the gift of their knowledge and listening to what they have to say. The more you are as a person, the less you need to prove yourself to others.

Be humble. Live with what the eastern sages called the beginners mind. Remember that everyone who enters your life has a story to tell and a lesson to teach if you have the wisdom to be open to it. Also remember that everyone who comes into your life does so exactly the right time to teach you the lesson you most needed to learn.

Ten en cuenta que un mal día para el ego es un día genial para el alma.