Quotes About Humility

If you live long enough as a parent nowadays, you discover that you have made mistakes you didn't bother to know about along with the ones you do know about all too well. You are somewhat humbled at heart, sometimes disgusted with yourself.

A simple serpent! . . we used to call ourselves simple serpents. Civil serpents. Servants.

Patrick had a trick-no, it was not a trick, Patrick had no tricks - Patrick had a way of expressing surprise, fairly scornful surprise, when people did not know something he knew, and similar scorn, similar surprise, whenever they had bothered to know something he did not. His arrogance and humility were both oddly exaggerated.

Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extereme gratitude, humility, understanding.

A man who lifts his chin in pride will fail to see the chasm at his feet.

Remove the crown and the fine clothes, and you're left with a fairly ordinary man.

I know I'm not God, are you? Don't be silly. God? God? Everybody's God? Don't be silly.

Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God!

So I say a name, even if self-bestowed, is better than a number. In the register of the potter's field I shall soon have both. What wealth!

Ugliness, n.: A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.

Is it not amazing, Puggly dear, that whenever we begin to congratulate ourselves on the breadth of our knowledge of the world, we discover that there are multitudes of people, in every corner of the earth, who have seen vastly more than we can ever hope to?

The failure of something great is never a simple matter, but where there is success and glory, there must also be failure and shame.

It's a rare man who's made better by a bit of power.

Modesty's for folk with nothing to boast of.

Nobility is shown not by the respect one is given by the highest, but the respect one gives to the lowly.

Un hombre debe ser capaz de conocer sus propias limitaciones.

Fighting every fight you're offered doesn't make you a big man, it makes you a fool.

The more you learn, the more you realise how little you know. Still, the struggle itself is worthwhile. Knowledge is the root of power, after all.

It was difficult to maintain any sense of superiority in the face of his utter dependence on other people.

Cuanto más se aprende, más cuenta se da uno de lo poco que sabe. Aun así, el propio esfuerzo compensa. Al fin y al cabo, el conocimiento es la raíz de todo poder.

In order to act like a King, one need only treat everyone else like one.

Aye, well, I've said a lot of shit in my time that didn't add up to much.

Is there anything you do badly?" "Lose." She gave her sweetest smile. "I swear I'm the worst loser in the world.

Besides, a man who's moved by grovelling will never get enough grovelling for his taste.