Quotes About Humility

I'm from Iowa, we don't know what cool is!

The only great people i have met have been modest and humble. You can't claim that you love people when you don't respect them, and you can't call for political unity unless you practice it in your relationships. And that doesn't happen out of nowhere. That's something that has got to be put into practice every day.

Ask a lot, but take what is offered.

My lord! Do not place me so high, That I cannot embrace Those who are not my own. - Never Place Me So High

Jesus defines servant leaders as those who humbly serve others because they love them.

One gets more and more humble the longer one lives, and in the shadow of death many things look different.

Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one's flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity. Enter again into yourself.

Los padres brillantes no forman héroes, sino seres humanos que conocen sus limitaciones y sus fortalezas.

As we strive to teach others we must have the humility to acknowledge that we too still have much to learn.

I think one must take responsibility for one's actions and one's decisions. But one should never take -- one should never assume that everything that happens for the good is achieved by one's self alone.

Mine is no rhetorician's fame, No petty usury I claim; Nor am I skilled to face the foe: 'Tis Thou, O Christ, alone I know. Yea, I have learnt to wait on Thee With heart and lips of purity, Humbly my knees in prayer to bend, And tears with songs of praise to blend.

Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.

He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

He who ashamed of his poverty would be equally proud of his wealth.

Nature abhors a vacuum. When a head lacks brains, nature fills it with conceit.

I'm not a professional I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.

The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

God, give me courage to do what I can, humility to admit what I can't, and wisdom to know the difference.

Man talking confidently about God is like a toy talking confidently about man.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

All of us do foolish things, but the wiser realize what they do. The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error. That failure is a common affliction of authority.

Devotion in faith, sweetness in voice, alacrity in alms-giving, guilelessness in relation with friends, humility for the Guru, depth in character; piety in behaviour, regard for merit, erudition in scriptural knowledge, beauty in appearance and belief in Lord Shiva (or in the welfare of all) are, O Raghav (Lord Rama), your attributes!

And we must not have the feeling of arrogance when indulging in the acts of charity, for if one does any good thing for others with the sense of the 'doer-ship' one loses all merit, according to the ancient Indian thought. Chanakya has merely repeated the same thought.]

The moment you say, "I have got it," you have lost everything you had.