Quotes About Humility

It's simple and delicious. So quit being such a snob.

You should not let a single person in the world, whatever sin that person may have committed, come before your eyes and depart without having found mercy with you. And should that person not ask for mercy from you, then you must ask it of him. And were that person to come to you a thousand times, continue to love them so as to lead them back to the right path. Always have compassion, for all of us have sinned. —Saint Francis of Assisi

One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God. — Frederick Buechner

He showed that fame may be won and what services be rendered by a plain son of the people unaided by any gifts of fortune.

There is no occasion to trample upon the meanest reptile, nor to sneak to the greatest prince. Insolence and baseness are equally unmanly.

You can accomplish anything in life, provided that you do not mind who gets the credit. —HARRY S. TRUMAN1

Abraham Lincoln, who was about to meet some visiting clergy to accept a petition, was shining his shoes when a cabinet minister came into his office for a quick answer to a question. The cabinet secretary asked in surprise, "Mr. President, are you shining your own shoes?" "Whose shoes would I shine?" replied Lincoln dryly.

Querer ser o primeiro é amar a nós mesmos. Colocar o próximo em primeiro lugar e estar atento às suas necessidades é amá-lo. Pense em como perdoamos rapidamente as asneiras e absurdos que cometemos. Perdoamos as asneiras e absurdos do próximo com a mesma rapidez? Você não acha que também nos amamos muito mais rapidamente do que amamos os outros?

Think of the qualities of a great leader: humility, respect, self-control, honesty, commitment, determination, gratitude, communication skills.

labors of leadership and love are character issues. Patience, kindness, humility, selflessness, respectfulness, forgiveness, honesty, commitment. These character building blocks,

Seja bom com os outros. A distância que você caminha na vida vai depender da sua ternura com os jovens, da sua compaixão com os idosos, sua compreensão com aqueles que lutam, da sua tolerância com os fracos e os fortes. Porque algum dia na vida você poderá ser um deles." - George Washington Carver

Logan Cale: If I just had my ass handed to me by a size three, I'd be inclined to mind my own business.

separated Peter from the vile and suicidal Judas was that he, Peter, had lived long enough to find his offense transformed—through no merit of his own—by the loving acceptance of Jesus. The humiliated Peter was, in the same moment, the forgiven Peter.

God in his wisdom has provided man with natural forks — his fingers. Therefore it is an insult to him to substitute artificial metal forks for them when eating.

If I could make one rule that everybody would have to follow… Stay Unique, Remain Humble and Kind, and Grow Empathy for others.

A igreja de Cristo não precisa de profissionais presunçosos, preocupados apenas em administrar a própria carreira. A igreja não precisa de membros voltados para o sucesso que buscam apenas outros vencedores. A igreja não precisa daqueles que esperam uma vida boa porque trabalham com afinco. Antes, os cristãos devem colocar em prática o ideal das profissões: servir, em vez de ser servido. p.38

We are no more qualified to be the stewards or developers of the Earth than are goats to be gardeners.

Can there be nothing but what we are able to understand and explain as to means, mode, and accomplishment? This would be a poverty-stricken world if it knew nothing but what man can explain and expound. Shall it be that because we cannot do a thing, we shall say it cannot be done, even by a higher power?

The man with much finds it easier to forget his dependence than he who must ask with each succeeding day of need.

I want to lead a government humble enough to know its place where I will always strive to be and that is on people's side.

The "gift" of tragedy is not destruction, but humility

When we take ourselves too seriously, we are at the risk of taking other things, including God, too lightly,

Nunca se es demasiado importante para hacer las pequeñas cosas que deben hacerse.

St Augustine said it best: 'Lay first the foundation of humility . . . The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.