Quotes About Humility

I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.

I like to think I'm too humble to declare there's nothing. After we die, that is.

Did you ever think how conceited those Oriental rug weavers are, to believe they have to try and make a mistake so as not to compete with God? Like they would have done it perfectly otherwise, if they hadn't forced themselves to mess it up?

We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.

it is everlastingly funny that the proud, metaphysically ambitious, clamoring mind will hush if you give it an egg.

Blessed are the poor, for they know that their riches are in the One who being rich made himself poor in order to enrich us with his poverty, teaching us the Christian's true wisdom." —January 29, 1978

The thunder of false modesty was deafening.

A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as though he knew everything.

The secret of being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong.

The secret of being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.

And most of all, it teaches people in the organization that it's okay not to be the best in the world.

The wisdom of peasants shows itself in their ability to pretend that they are fools.

Not proud you have, but thankful that you have. Proud can I never be of what I hate, but thankful even for hate that is meant love.

When love fills one's heart, there should be no room for pride.

Don't go getting full of yourself becuase once you do, somebody's going to come and let the wind out of your sails

Yes, but it can be no condescension for the son of a count to serve the son of a king.

Sometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone.

If I am feeling stupid, angry, jealous, or humiliated, I bring total awareness and acknowledgment to those feelings. I admit my failures and own them. Then I usually start laughing as I realize how small and inconsequential I really am and also how ridiculous my problems are!

In order to free ourselves from our assumptions about love, we must ask ourselves what long-held, often buried assumptions are and then face them, which takes courage, humility, and kindness.

This book has no pretensions to infallibility, let alone to omniscience.

A softer call, "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest" (Matthew 11:28). A truer call, "What does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God" (Micah 6:8).

The gift of the Holy Ghost is a gift of power. The Holy Ghost inspires and heals, guides and warns, enhances our natural capacities, inspires charity and humility, makes us smarter than we are, strengthens us during trials, testifies of the Father and the Son, and shows us all things that we should do. He helps us do more and become more than we could ever do or become on our own.

Don't be cocky, 'Pride cometh before the fall

The only clothes Amanda has are the ones on her back. (Kyrian) From what I saw, she had no clothes whatsoever on her back. Her front neither. (Nick) One day, Gaitor bait... (Kyrian) Note to self- be nice to woman, keep mouth shut. (Nick)