Quotes About Humility

If you know people who seem to be very wise and yet put others down, reject friends, and make people feel bad about themselves — no matter how high their words or what they teach — you can rest assured they do not love themselves.

Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.

Men soon the faults of others learn, A few their virtues, too, find out; But is there one?I have a doubt? Who can his own defects discern?

A pobreza é um bem que encerra todos os bens do mundo. É uma grande soberania; confirmo que se assenhoreia de todos os bens quem nenhum caso faz de os deixar.

Talentless and incompetent as I am, there are two things I can do, and two things only: walk, with my own two feet; compose, composing my poems.

You don't have to keep thanking me. I'm not Mother Teresa.

No one's book is perfect.

We've forgotten how to humbly interact with a story on its own terms; we've lost the ability to wonder, especially when it comes to stories of human encounters with divine power. So have our young people. As a church, how do we restore that sense of wonder? By restoring our sense of the Bible as story, both for us and for the youth we serve; and by surrendering to the work of the Holy Spirit in and through this text that is mysteriously more than text.

Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.

I always entertain the notion that I'm wrong, or that I'll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing.

The man can neither man, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels.

It took me 20 years to learn I couldn't tune too well. And by that time I was too rich to care.

You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.

I may not say it all the time or I may not pray as much as I need to, but I am not forgetting where I came from and how I got to be where I am today.

A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much.

No one has ever conquered this game. One week out there and you are God, next time you are the devil. But it does keep you coming back.

I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Every time we deny ourselves in order to serve someone else, we grow in Christ.

Having listened to people for a long time, I believe many of us should be thankful not to be shot.

Men take the oddest satisfaction in feeling superior without knowing that most of the time they are being utterly predictable.

Every time I make a plan, God laughs at me.

Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.

Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.