Quotes About Humility

My opponent is my teacher, my ego is my enemy.

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.

The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people

Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.

Don't set your wit against a child.

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know.

I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher.

Teachers shouldn't make the mistake of always thinking they're the smartest person in the room

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.

Success is a lousy teacher. It makes you think you know what you're doing.

I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal.

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.

If you only know one kriya, then share that. Just be humble, teach it. Every student is a teacher.

I wasn't a very good teacher.

The greatest teacher has nothing to say. He simply gives himself in service, and never worries.

A true leader is still a leader even when he takes up servants' duty, provided he maintains a human face and added integrity to his self-retained qualities.

There is a night school where you shall meet great teachers: The sky! When the night falls, the shining stars in the school will teach you how small you are and how comical to own an ego!

Travelling becomes an excellent teacher if the traveller becomes an excellent student!

I libri, loro non ti abbandonano mai. Tu sicuramente li abbandoni di tanto in tanto, i libri, magari li tradisci anche, loro invece non ti voltano mai le spalle: nel più completo silenzio e con immensa umiltà, loro ti aspettano sullo scaffale.

I give no sign. Maybe the reason I decided to behave in this way was that Mother had taught me that you can tell real kings and nobles by the fact that they despise their titles and know full well that true nobility consists in behaving toward the simplest people with humility, like an ordinary human being.