Quotes About Humility

Humility is a deep, authentic acknowledgment that we can't do it alone, that we should be mindful of the perspectives others bring, and that we can be better and do more with input from others.

True humility is not just about admitting you can't solve, resolve, or fix every problem on your own. Rather, humility promotes a very personal and real recognition that the experiences and opinions of others matter, and that they can make a difference in your success. One

Nicholas Sparks recently went on record as saying he is a greater novelist than Cormac McCarthy. This is true in the same sense that I am a better novelist than William Shakespeare.

We have to let everyone hear, the result does not belong to us.

Merton ... humbly warned, however, "It's a wrong perception to believe that you can eliminate risk just because you can measure it.

Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?" "Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming.

In fact, it is the account of an interior voyage, the kind of excursion that's hard to talk about without sounding foolish or annoyingly serene, or like someone who thinks the Great Spirit has singled him out to be the mouthpiece of ultimate truth. If you knew me you'd know that I am none of the above.

Time wore all of them down, administered harsh lessons in humility to even the finest physical specimens.

Isn't mockery the province of the insecure?

Much self-condemnation is a cloak for arrogance. Those who think they overcome pride by condemning themselves could well ponder Spinoza's remark "One who despises himself is the nearest to a proud man.

Much self-condemnation, thus, is a cloak for arrogance. Those who think they overcome pride by condemning themselves could well ponder Spinoza's remark, 'One who despises himself is the nearest to a proud man'. In ancient Athens, when a politician was trying to get the votes of the working class by appearing very humble in a tattered coat with big holes in it, Socrates unmasked his hypocrisy by exclaiming, 'Your vanity shows forth from every whole in your coat'.

I am weak, I say with no presumptions. I have no merit, I note it, that is all. There are times that I feel so weak there most be a mistake, and as I don't know what I mean with this, I am not going to say anything else

Bruno, someday you will die of kindness, tolerance and gentleness. Well, given the options, it isn't a bad way to go.

They were the only members of their family, and they were both humble, crushed, and thrust aside by life; they were united in sadness and tenderness by a bond of mutual pity and common suffering, borne in secret. With the Kraffts—robust, noisy, brutal, solidly built for living, and living joyously—these two weak, kindly creatures, out of their setting, so to speak, outside life, understood and pitied each other without ever saying anything about it.

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Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.

To know Christ entails accepting his will as norm. When we feel this we draw back, startled for it means the cross. The it is better to say honestly: "I can't yet," than to mouth pious phrases. Slow there with the large words "self-suffender," and "sacrifice." It is better to admit our weakness and ask him to teach us strength.

A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics.

Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him.

was embarrassed that I once thought myself superior to him, stooping to sprinkle my wealth and wisdom into his lowly life.

God won't force His assistance on us. We must ask for His help. Why? Why should we pray when God already knows everything? He knows what we need before we ask. So why ask? God insists that we ask because He wants us to learn to depend on Him and give Him the credit for intervening in our lives. He knows that we won't give Him the credit unless we ask.

According to 2 Chronicles 7:14, "If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

If the opposite of certainty is doubt, humility must lie somewhere between the two

It was easier to be the headstrong monk, a boy on a long-shot mission, before he actually won anything. With the prize in hand, he realized his single-minded drive came across as aloof cockiness; his painful martyrdom certainly looked like self-nomination for sainthood. He's not sure he can keep up this exhausting, aw-shucks façade for much longer.