Quotes About Humility

The Hebrew word for meek really means "to be molded." The

The Greek word used to translate the Aramaic word for meekness, which Jesus used in the Prophetic Blessing, was the word used for an animal that had been tamed and brought under the control of the bit and reins of its master. Meekness is power under control!

I don't write like this in order to show how clever and well read I am--though I am rather clever and well read as a matter of fact.

The wise leader does not make a show of holiness or pass out grades for good performance. That would create a climate of success and failure. Competition and jealousy follow.

A Good Group A good group is better than a spectacular group. When leaders become superstars, the teacher outshines the teaching. Very few superstars are down-to-earth. Fame breeds fame, and before long they get carried away with themselves. Then they fly off center and crash. The wise leader settles for good work and then lets others have the floor. The leader does not take all the credit for what happens and has no need for fame. A moderate ego demonstrates wisdom.

Better is to bow than break.

Beggars should be no choosers.

We who are white men can't change who we are. But we could do worse than to follow what I took that summer as his example: to be aware of and curious about the world around you, to give what you have with neither apology nor self-congratulation. When praise comes to see you, get out on the fire escape. When it's someone else's time to talk, listen. Don't turn your house into a museum. When your work is done, get out of the way.

O holy simplicity!

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

I could boast that I was a man, but I could not claim with equal certainty that I was a human being.

A clear look back on the Cold War's battlegrounds, along with a sense of relief that the world survived forty-five years of confrontation, evokes feelings of humility and regret.

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.

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

It's nice to be important, but it's important to be nice.

Meyer is a transcendent warmth, the listening ear of a total understanding and forgiveness, a humble wisdom.

A beggar who goes fishing may use a worm which has feasted on a king as his bait. And the fisherman may eat the fish caught with that bait. What does this tells us? Well, it tells us that a king may progress through the guts of a pauper.

It seems we must be taken twice, by the love that we inflict and then by the infliction of being loved, before we have the humility to look and take whatever agreeable plant that we have never seen before, because of it being all around our feet, and take it and watch it grow, choosing the lesser truth because it's all that we'll ever know.

My two rock idols are Jon Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen. Not just because they are from Jersey, but, because they conduct themselves with humility and give a lot back to the public and their respective communities. And, the fact they both ended up marrying someone that "knew them when" is something I admire and hope to have with Tina (Rinaldi) one day.

Whenever I'm worried about anything,' said this guy Ben, 'I like to think about China. China has a population of like two billion people, and not one of them even remotely cares about whatever you think is so important.' I acknowledged that this was a great comfort.

The charitable acts that count the most, Greer believes, are those done without anyone knowing.

You need to choose bravery over shame," Leanne says. "Humility over pride.

But when you get among such grandeur you get to feel how little you are and how foolish is human endeavor, except that which reunites us with the mighty force called God.