Quotes About Humility

True submission never grovels, and true authority never accepts flattery.

Be at peace with being lousy for a while. Chesterton once said that anything worth doing was worth doing badly. He was right. Only an insufferable egoist expects to be brilliant first time out.

Whenever you look in front and see a lot of people ahead of you, take time to look at the long queue behind you. Let us live a life of contentment.

The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Recognizing our limitations and imperfections is the first requisite of progress. Those who believe they have arrived believe they have nowhere to go. Some not only have closed their minds to new truth, but they sit on the lid.

Do not condemn the man that cannot think or act as fast as you can, because there was a time when you could not do things as well as you can today.

Man's insulting God is not reversed by our insulting man.

Six essential qualities that are the key to success Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.

I'm not insecure. I've been through way too much f**king sh*t to be insecure. I've got huge balls. But I've been humbled. That makes you grateful for every day you have.

I'm not insecure. I've been through way too much f**king sh*t to be insecure. I've got huge balls. But I've been humbled. That makes you grateful for every day you have.

Those who ask for mercy," he answered coldly, "are too weak to deserve it.

Martin Luther: "He who believes his doctrine to be perfectly right and true has only to lift his hands and touch his ears and discover they are the long furry ears of a donkey.

Humility before God generates humility toward others. If humility toward others is not evident, it's unlikely we see ourselves correctly before God.

local people notice we aren't there to learn from them but to teach them; we won't ask questions but will give answers; we aren't there to be with them but to train them; we won't build trust but will attempt to transform them; we're not there to dialogue but to lecture. Paulo Freire, the Brazilian educator, calls this a "subject-object relationship." Unchecked ethnocentrism turns human beings into objects to be manipulated.

Servanthood is revealed in simple, everyday events.

At all times, do not lose courage in your inner awareness; uplift yourself, while assuming a humble position in your outer demeanor. Follow the example of the life and complete liberation of previous accomplished masters (siddha). Do not blame your past karma; instead, be someone who purely and flawlessly practices the dharma. Do not blame temporary negative circumstances; instead, be someone who remains steadfast in the face of whatever circumstances may arise.

Everybody knows something, and nobody knows everything.

Johnny Quick: Did we save the world, then? Batman: We did. Johnny Quick: And all that rubbish about me being faster than Flash? You knew this was gonna happen. Good one, mate.

There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.

Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.

The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.

You have to accept gifts occasionally, because there are some things you can't give yourself

I think you can measure how pathetic your life is by how much joy you get from learning about other people's faults and troubles.

The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.