Quotes About Humility

I'm too handsome for God to send me to hell. The rest of you are in for it, though.

My favorite line from Captain Picard of Star Trek: The Next Generation is, "I have made some fine mistakes in my life." It is so humble, wise, and self-confident, all at once.)

You possess one piece of the "good." It would only be arrogance to think any of us should have it all.

My favorite line from Captain Picard of Star Trek: The Next Generation is, "I have made some fine mistakes in my life." It is so humble, wise, and self-confident, all at once.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day -- wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Every saint has a bee in his halo.

Professor [John] Tyndall once said the finest inspiration he ever received was from an old man who could scarcely read. This man acted as his servant. Each morning the old man would knock on the door of the scientist and call, 'Arise, Sir: it is near seven o'clock and you have great work to do today.

I am the Little Bug Spirit. I come to people when they begin to take themselves too seriously. They think they are big. I cut them down to size.

Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass. —Michel de Montaigne O

A mature person is one who is does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life.

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

None of us can afford to stop learning or to check our curiosity about new things, or to lose our humility in the face of new situations.

In this world, no one is all knowing, and therefore, all of us need both love and charity.

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

The eternal pauper in the great marketplace of ideas and of the world, I had nothing to teach anyone. I didn't have anything anyone wanted.

That's a spiritual lifestyle, being willing to admit that you don't know everything and that you were wrong about some things. It's about making a list of all the people you've harmed, either emotionally or physically or financially, and going back and making amends. That's a spiritual lifestyle. It's not a fluffy ethereal concept.

As a rule, though, never underestimate our capacity not to learn from our mistakes.

Just because one is born in sin is no reason to brag about it.

Those who take thinking seriously have a serious problem—ignorance and arrogance commingle.

And that's when he saw, at last, why it was so sweet to be infinitesimal: because as we become nothing, beneath the stars, so too do our troubles.

Do not be like servants who serve their masters expecting to receive a reward be rather like servants who serve their master unconditionally, with no thought of reward.