Quotes About Humility

Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.

I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.

The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death.

For the most part, biophiliacs,lovers of life, are found among simple people, without pretensions.

The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he's coming down.

Life is a lot easier when you realize that you're not in control of it all.

When people ask me how is it I was a musician, I facetiously say that I'm a firm believer in reincarnation and in a previous life I was Johann Sebastian Bach's guide dog.

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence, take life seriously-but never yourself!

I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.

Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring.

Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!

To know everything is to know nothing, but to know nothing is to know everything.

The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the days of their life.

If God said, 'Rumi pay homage to everything that has helped you enter my arms,' there would not be one experience of my life, not one thought, not one feeling, nor any act, I would not bow to.

For me, it's a great opportunity on a public platform to get on your knees and humble myself and thank the Lord for all the blessings he's put in my life.

Though I may not be a king in my future life, so much the better: I shall nevertheless live an active life and, on top of it, earn less ingratitude.

Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered.

Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.

There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

All my life I've swam in the loo butterfly style.

Most of the worst errors I made in my life came from forgetting to act small.