Quotes About Humility

You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.

From a worldly point of view there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.

I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.

Recognizing that backsliding is natural, he committed himself to repeated practice. Recognizing that some virtues, such as humility and order, were particularly hard for him to achieve, he decided to lower his standards and cut himself some slack. The result was a program that was explicit, realistic, and, as he looked back on it, seemingly effective.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

A fishing pole is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool on the other

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

An old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils: Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.

I pray God to keep me from being proud.

He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.

Hanem ezentúl kevésbé tisztelem a királyokat, látva, hogy az es?nek ?k sem tudnak parancsolni.

I am limited, finite, and fixed. I am in terror of the infinity before me, having come through the one behind bringing no knowledge I can take on. I commend myself up to what is greater than I, and try to be good.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.

Our pride must have winter weather to rot it.

My shallow and ebb thoughts are not the compass Christ saileth by. I leave His ways to Himself, for they are far, far above me . . . There are windings and to's and fro's in His ways, which blind bodies like us cannot see.

There is none like Him; I would not exchange one smile of His lovely face with kingdoms.

Pray for your adversaries; remember how many thousands of talents of sins your Master hath forgiven you. Forgive you, therefore, your fellow-servant's one talent.

On est toujours le con de quelqu'un.

Truly powerful people have great humility. They do not try to impress, they do not try to be influential. They simply are. People are magnetically drawn to them. They are most often very silent and focused, aware of their core selves. ... They never persuade, nor do they use manipulation or aggressiveness to get their way. They listen. If there is anything they can offer to assist you, they offer it; if not, they are silent.

People who love themselves come across as very loving, generous and kind; they express their self-confidence through humility, forgiveness and inclusiveness.