Quotes About Humility

He said that God always weeps when men and women are cruel—to each other, to animals. To the earth itself. He said that Christ's kingdom will only come when we learn to be deeply kind. He told me to remember that while we draw breath, there will always be some way we can show kindness.

Be modest, be humble, be simple.Make sure you come in first so that you have something to be humble about.

That's the first step to learning: admitting what you don't know.

You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.

At first, I thought it was because I was raised with all this Chinese humility... Or maybe it was because when you're Chinese you're supposed to accept everything, flow with the Tao and not make waves. But my therapist said, Why do you blamd your culture, your ethnicity? And I remembered reading an article about baby boomers, how we expect the best and when we get it we worry that maybe we shoudl have expected more, because it's all diminishing returns after a certain age.

I was returning with myself whole and unbroken—limbs, mind, and spirit. I had discarded pride, that useless burden of self-importance

You can have pride in what you do each day," said Sister Yu, "but not arrogance in what you were born with." She

Anaïs, I could stay here all night writing you. I see you before me constantly, with your head down and your long lashes lying on your cheeks. And I feel very humble.

But perhaps Rank is right and humility is an atonement for your great inner pride and knowingness about your self!

Someone recently said to me that it is easier to be clever than it is to be kind, and I think that is very true. So I add to my list of regrets the times I have not been kind, choosing instead to be clever, usually at someone else's expense.

Atheism is a way of humility. It's to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself to become human.

Já o ateísmo é uma forma de humildade. É considerar-se um animal, como de fato somos, e deixar-nos o encargo de nos tornar humanos.

One must allow other people to be right, he used to say when he was insulted, It consoles them for not being anything else.

You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.

Vertu des humbles - acceptation; et cela leur va si bien, à certains, qu'on croit comprendre que leur vie est faite à la mesure de leur âme. Surtout ne pas les plaindre : leur état leur convient ; déplorable ! Ils ne s'aperçoivent plus de la médiocrité, sitôt que ce n'est plus une médiocrité de fortune.

One must allow other people to be right,' he used to say when he was insulted, 'it consoles them for not being anything else.' (The Immoralist - pp 91)

Bisogna lasciare la ragione agli altri perché questo li consola di non aver altro.

I am as a speck of dust in the sun, and not even so much, in this solemn, mysterious, unknowable universe.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all credit for doing it.

For Alan Turing did not think of himself as placed in a superior category by virtue of his brains, and only insisted upon playing what happened to be his own special part.

We can be proud of our abilities, but we must be honest about our shortcomings—our ignorance as well as our mistakes.

A Pragmatic Programmer takes charge of his or her own career, and isn't afraid to admit ignorance or error.

In measured doses, mortification cleanses the soul. It's the perfect antidote for excessive self-regard.

there are many out-of-the-way things it is as well to know, but one should never boast of them.