Quotes About Humility

No matter the severity of suffering we experience in this life, it will always be less that what we have deserved for our sins

He mocks proud mockers but gives grace to the humble. from the Book of Proverbs

When you think you are the king of the world, you are really stupid in my opinion because in this life every person is important.

We are like monkeys who dwell in the forest and shit on the very branches from which we hang.

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

Humility is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

love does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud, it does not behave improperly, it does not seek its own advantage, it is not easily provoked, it bears no grudge, delights not in evil but rejoices only in the truth. It shelters all, trusts all, always hopes, always endures. Love is everlasting.

The mark of the educated man is not in his boast that he has built his mountain of facts and stood on the top of it, but in his admission that there may be other peaks in the same range with men on the top of them, and that, though their views of the landscape may be different from his, they are nonetheless legitimate.

Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.

Life's very difficult and full of surprises. At all events, I've got as far as that. To be humble and kind, to go straight ahead, to love people rather than pity them, to remember the submerged--well, one can't do all these things at once, worse luck, because they're so contradictory. It's then that proportion comes in--to live by proportion. Don't begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed...

Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art.

Disaster had shown her her limitations, and he realized now what a fine loyal character she was. Her humility was touching. She never repined at getting the worst of both worlds; she regarded it as the due punishment of her stupidity.

A man who has been through hell does not boast of his virility. He is humble and hides it, if, indeed, it still exists.

Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness and hypocrisy.

I was thinking that if what distinguishes us as humans is our stupidity, what may redeem us is our grace.

It's what you learn after you know it all that really counts.

Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.

I don't know anything, I never did know anything, but now I know I don't know anything!

These are times, moreover, when we shall learn again to make those pleas with which the Lord's Prayer begins: Hallowed be thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done. By these we learn to forget ourselves and our personal condition and to hold them as of little account. How are we to remain steadfast so long as we remain so important to ourselves? - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

You're never as bad as you think you are and certainly never as good. Keep your head about you. Strive every single day to be better than yesterday and even better tomorrow. Don't get caught in the trap of thinking you are something special.

The vastness of life around us helps eliminate self-centeredness. We are not doing the Vision Quest to make ourselves feel important or to be interesting to our friends but to realize the vastness of the universe and our oneness with it.