Quotes About Humility

Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed" ~ John D. Rockefeller

What would it be like if the highly visible figures in the life of a nation started to set examples of moderation and humility rather than excessiveness and arrogance?

At Reed College, I learned very quickly that I didn't know nearly enough. I learned, first, that every student there was as smart as I was, and quite a few seemed smarter.

Like having no need of big things. Enjoy that you are okay in being simple.

At times I've got a really big ego. But I'll tell you the best thing about me. I'm some guy's dad I'm some little gal's dad. When I die, if they say I was Annie's husband and Zachary John and Anna Kate's father, boy, that's enough for me to be remembered by. That's more than enough.

Genuine ignorance is... profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.

Genuine ignorance is more profitable because likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open-mindedness; while ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with a varnish waterproof to new ideas.

knowledge alone is not powerful even when the dots are interconnected, but humility can take you far away

When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man shall have no satisfaction if the poorest alive tread upon him, nor the poorest receive any contentment in being made equal to princes, for they shall be equal but in dust.

Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.

The biggest idiot you will meet in life will be the person that thinks they know it all.

A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.

Just let yourself be broken and humiliated. Just your whole life, keep telling people, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

I never talk about being leaders and all the rest of it. I can only remember one or two occasions in my life when I actually issued orders, and I felt thoroughly miserable after doing it.

If we had everything we wanted and needed without asking of Heavenly Father, we would lose sight of the hand of God in our lives.

We can choose to humble ourselves by loving God, adjusting our will to His, and putting Him first in our lives.

Why would I ever get cocky? I'm not saving anybody's life.

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

It's very humbling to imagine somebody else's really life and their pain ... It's my drug.

You don't have to be larger than life to be a hero, just larger than yourself.

Hay algo más tonto en la vida Que llamarse Pablo Neruda? (is there anything more insane in this life than being called Pablo Neruda?)

Don't try to be brave when it is enough to be intelligent.

It is easy to turn our religious life into a cathedral for beautiful memories, but there are feet to be washed . . .

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.