Quotes About Humility

Mary's life shows that God accomplishes great deeds through those who are the most humble.

I try to lead a life where I don't have to ask God for forgiveness.

I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.

There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race.

Whoever we are, wherever we are, however we are, whatever our condition is, there is no impediment to attaining the perfection of life-if we are humble & sincere.

For me, I learnt from jiu-jitsu and martial arts to be humble and to go forward in life in a positive way.

As long as you pretend to be self-sufficient, you short-circuit God's power in your life. You need to admit your inadequacy and say, "God, I can't handle this!"

God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?

Life had its way of beating humbleness into a man.

Even I would find a book about my life pretty dull.

Even if I screw up in my personal life, as long as I'm not destroying myself, I just think, "Okay, I screwed up." I'm not Mother Theresa.

In real life I can play guitar, sure, but badly.

Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value of art is not beauty, but right action.

But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.

It was the hardest year of my life. It was humbling. I was a fish out of water.

The art of humility begins with a recognition of our dependence on others and an appreciation of God's gift of life.

If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the last sentence is a pretty plodding way to spend your life.

Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.

I'd like to think I'm actually a nice person in real life.

I tell people that I've now done one decent thing in my life. Albeit inadvertently.

I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.

I, the lone inhabitant of my body and life, am inescapably large to myself, but also ridiculously, inconceivably small.

I was a very driven person, wanting to help and to do good, hopefully to write and teach in a meaningful way - wanting to make change. And I discovered humbly that life was changing me.