Quotes About Humility

Life is a series of embarrassing moments which leave you feeling alone in your confusion and shame

In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer. He was good to the end.'

I have a very normal life. I go to the grocery store, I go to Target. I don't have an assistant, I don't have an entourage.

Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

I am literally smaller than life. I am an unextraordinary-looking person. I've seen people trying to hide their disappointment when they meet me, and I have to watch them get over it.

Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.

Would anyone choose Hell over Heaven? YES! Why? Pride. They don't want to go in the only way you can go in, on your knees. They don't want to admit they are a failure, that their life is a mess.

My parents mistook me for a sack of potatoes so I sat in the corner of the kitchen for the first 13 years of my life. My birth name is Thom Potatoes.

Life changes for the better when we realize that we don't have to know everything and we don't have to pretend we do.

Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

I would like to live a day in the life of an ant and hope not to get squashed.

The spirit is what guides my life, and I'm humbly on my knees in thanks for guidance and direction every day. But God is not something to be preached, it's something to be lived.

Childlike in faith means the daily acknowledgment of utter dependence and that I owe my life and being to another.

I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

Quit praying about yourself and spend your life for the sake of others as the bondservant of Jesus. That is the true meaning of being broken bread and poured-out wine in real life.

Be humble in this life.

It's the quiet life of obedience that will earn a hearing

What in your life allows you to give up to other people, and allows you to forgive others and accept forgiveness.

I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that.

I've been smart enough to have lived my life stupidly.

For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and humility.

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.