Quotes About Humility

My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?

You buy a house and you get it checked out and you feel like you've kind of made your mark here in some way. And then an act of God just comes up the coast and has the potential to just completely wipe it clean. Weather like that is certainly humbling.

I auditioned for Robert Redford once and I was so starstruck I couldn't even speak. I had a mic wire at a screen test clipped to me and then I got kind of nervous and I paced in a circle and then took a step and tripped and fell on my face. You just have to forgive yourself and keep going on.

I have never been wired to be front and centre of spotlight and ready to dance.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'

Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.

More humility, in terms of recognizing our luck, and more realism, in understanding at a deep level that being smart doesn't make you good, doesn't make you valuable, doesn't make you wise.

With age, you become more humble, more wise.

When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.

It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.

Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.

Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.

I never mean to be disrespectful, and I don't mean to be a wise guy.

We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

I'm not very wise to many things.