Quotes About Humility

Even though Jesus was God's Son, he learned obedience from the things he suffered. —Hebrews 5:8

Jesus beckons me to follow him to that place of weakness where I risk the vulnerability of a child so that I might know how strong my Father is and how much he loves me. But truth be told, I would rather be an adult. I'd rather be in a place where I can still pull things together if God doesn't show up, where I risk no ultimate humiliation, where I don't have to take the shallow breaths of desperation. And as a result, my experience of my heavenly Father is simply impoverished.

He realized that he was not always right, was, indeed, often not right, and at the same time he found that others were not always wrong.

We don't like to think of ourselves as prey—it is a lessening thought—but the truth is that in our arrogance and so-called knowledge we forget that we are not unique. We are part of nature as much as other animals, and some animals—sharks, fever-bearing mosquitoes, wolves and bear, to name but a few—perceive us as a food source, a meat supply, and simply did not get the memo about how humans are superior.

Actor to Senderovsky: What awes you about the work you do? How does it humble you?

Il galateo del mondo selvatico non richiede solo generosità ma una specie di rude e allegra capacità di tollerare i disagi con buon umore, di comprendere la fragilità di tutti e una certa umiltà.

To sum up, while we do not seek to instruct the reader, we should feel rewarded for our efforts if we can persuade him to practice an exercise at which we are a master: to laugh at oneself. No progress is possible in the acquisition of objective knowledge without this self-critical irony.

While there are things about which one does not boast, there are others for which to be pitied would be all too humiliating.

M. Richard bowed ... to nobody; bent his back ... before nobody; and walked backward ... before nobody ... And, a few steps behind him, M. Moncharmin did the same thing

Si hay cosas de las que uno no se jacta, hay otras en las que se sufre demasiada humillación cuando se es compadecido.

Si hay cosas de las que uno no se jacta, hay otras por las que se sufre demasiada humillación al ser compadecido

it's not wise to deny everything you can't understand.

And you, I think, are a good man of the kind who does not know himself to be one—some say that is the only kind.

Again, I did what I could. I didn't doubt, and didn't deny, that there were people who could have done a better job than me, people with more skill and experience, but I played the hand I was given, dealt with the problem, and the person, in front of me, and at least I felt reasonably sure I was doing no harm.

With all humility and abstinence, with all temperance and patience, with modest bearing and appearance was she. Discreet in answering was she always.

And Seneca says, 'Whosoever would have wisdom shall disdain no man, but he shall gladly teach what he knows, without presumption or pride, and of such things as he does not know, he shall not be ashamed to learn them, and shall inquire of lesser folk than himself.

And, in his noble heart, he pondered a moment and then soft unto himself he said, "Fie upon a Lord that will show no mercy, but will be as a lion, in word and in deed, both to those who are remorseful and afeared, as well as to the haughty unrepentant man, and who will judge the guilty and the innocent alike. That Lord has little of discernment, who, in such a case, knows of no distinction, but weighs arrogance and humility upon an equal scale.

And, therefore, I pray God both day and night that, to a wrathful man, He send but little might. It is a great harm and, for certain, a great misfortune to place an angry man in high position.

Vergüenza ha de tener el gobernante que no tenga piedad, si actúa y habla como un león a los que están arrepentidos y temerosos, del mismo modo que a los poderosos y altaneros que persisten en sus propósitos. Un príncipe tiene escaso discernimiento si no sabe distinguir en casos así y pasa al orgullo por el mismo rasero que a la humildad.»

Lo, what says Saint Augustine: "There is nothing so like the Devil's child as he who oft chides others." Saint Paul also says, "It behooves the servant of God not to chide.

A bettre preest, I trowe that nowher noon is. He wayted after no pompe and reverence,   525 Ne maked him a spyced conscience, But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve, He taughte, and first he folwed it him-selve.

The remedy against the Sin of Pride. Now since it is so that you have understood what is Pride, and which are the kinds of it, and from whence Pride arises and springs, you shall understand what is the remedy against the Sin of Pride, and that is humility, or meekness. That is a virtue through which a man has true knowledge of himself, and holds himself to be of no import or esteem, considering always his frailty.

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a valet.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.