Quotes About Humility

If you happened to be born on third base, you didn't rub it in the face of the guy who wasn't even born in the stadium. Self-interest was generally checked at the door with your coat and hat.

Self-reliance and arrogance have no place among God's people or in his kingdom.

Pride Goeth before the fall.

Humbly aware of your sins and the need for forgiveness.

Glorify God, not yourself.

Why do I have to repent or ask for forgiveness, if I am not making mistakes?

Sadly, the lack humility and expansive presence of pride in the words and deeds of Donald Trump make him unqualified to be president of the United States of America. He should not be given four more years to hold the highest political office in our land. Christians who ignore this not only undermine the present and future good of the nation, but also their witness to the gospel of Jesus Christ.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

You can accomplish much if you don't care who gets the credit.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

When we're young, we think we are the only species worth knowing. But the more I come to know people, the better I like ravens. (Revival Road

I'M GLAD I'M NOT PERFECT—I'D BE BORED TO DEATH.

No point in being proud; when it comes to miracles, take the ones that will stay with you.

Il n'y a pas de vanité intelligente.

She put others first, and she never felt the need to shine." "But she did shine," Sam said. "People loved her." "That was her secret," Dana said, picturing her sister's smile. "She shined from within.

Always come down from the barren heights of cleverness into the green valleys of folly.

If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.

Don't let us quarrel. We all have our weaknesses, dear friends; so we must strive to be considerate of one another. And since this poor boy is hungry and has nothing whatver to eat, let us all remain quiet and allow him to sleep; for it is said that in sleep a mortal may forget even hunger. - Scarecrow

but why should we have dominion? Are we better than the dog that stays by a master who forgets to notice him? Than the cat who lays the mouse at your door when she is hungry and could have eaten it herself? Than a horse who will keep galloping to please you until its lungs have given out?

If we looked inside ourselves and remembered how insignificant we are, just for a couple of minutes a day, respect for other people would be an automatic result.

People who care more about being right than ending right prove just how wrong they were all along.

Percebo, percebo! Tendes a volúpia suprema da vaidade, que é a vaidade da modéstia.

Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about, Charles Wallace said. Why should I disillusion them?

I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what.