Quotes About Humility

How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth shut? Maybe never. Maybe you get more frivolous with age.

Creating some god for one's inspirations was always a good way to avoid accusations of pride should the scheme succeed, as well as the blame if did not.

I wish I was ignorant, so I didn't know how ignorant I am

For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it. Mary

I've learned to do without a lot of things. If you have a lot of things, said Aunt Lydia, you get too attached to this material world and you forget about spiritual values. You must cultivate poverty of spirit. Blessed are the meek.

I've learned to do without a lot of things. If you have a lot of things, said Aunt Lydia, you get too attached to this material world and you forget about spiritual values. You must cultivate poverty of spirit. Blessed are the meek. She didn't go on to say anything about inheriting the earth. I

Only fools, he said, were given to bragging about how much they could drink.

All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard.

Now is a time for, dare I say it, kindness. I thought being extremely smart would take care of it. But I see I have been found out.

Every time we start thinking we're the center of the universe, the universe turns around and says with a slightly distracted air, 'I'm sorry. What'd you say your name was again?

Sir said Mrs. Meade indignantly. There are NO deserters in the Confederate army. I beg your pardon, said Rhett with mock humility. I meant those thousands on furlough who FORGOT to rejoin their regiments and those who have been over their wounds for six months but who remain at home, going about their usual business or doing the spring plowing.

Only small minds are impressed by large numbers.

I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.

Life is beautiful. Be thankful for everything. Destroy your ego. Free hugs. Sing your hearts out in the street. Rock 'n roll.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.

Be thankful for the smallest blessing, and you will be worthy to receive greater.

What I have done is worthy of nothing but silence and forgetfulness, but what God has done for me is worthy of everlasting and thankful memory.

I really don't look at my life as being an accomplishment. I'm just very thankful for what I've been given.

How can we thankful? We can only love the Heart of Jesus more generously and by our union with Him, become the most humble.

Be therefore thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be worthy to receive greater.

Im thankful for my songs being at the top of the charts but I am human - I think people still have to remember that.

Appreciate what everybody does, especially those doing what you are also doing. Don't crave for attention and fame. It will come automatically when your brand is well situated.

Gratitude begins where my sense of entitlement ends.