Quotes About Humility

When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it.

But what will not be forgotten, and what will and should continue to obsess our imaginations, is this revelation of the possibilities of the universe, this destruction of our ignorant self-complacency, and this demonstration of how narrow is the path of our material existence and what abysses may lie upon either side of it. Solemnity and humility are at the base of all our emotions to-day. May they be the foundations upon which a more earnest and reverent race may build a more worthy temple.

Excuse me? I believe the correct words you're looking for are Thank you, Thorn, for saving our asses when we got caught with our britches down.

Lo juro, mi madre debería haberme llamado Fido.

She understood how tenuous an existence that was. How humbling and how hard to have to ask for help and pray you would receive it.

How should you hope for mercy, rendering none?

and consequently, while I can never be sentimental, I can never be great

You think you have a handle on God, the Universe, and the Great White Light until you go home for Thanksgiving. In an hour, you realize how far you've got to go and who is the real turkey.

I'm not going to give you a song and dance that I'm a great scholar, philosopher, or man of wealth.

Well, to quote my mother, a worm lies in horseradish and thinks there's nothing sweeter.

We should not hoard knowledge; we should be free from our knowledge.

The earth is not just for the clever and the strong. It must be possible even for weak and pitiful creatures — like himself and this old dog — to make some contribution in their lifetime.

One must be humble, one must keep personal preferences and antipathies in the background, if one wishes to discover the realities of the world.

Her father's marvelous gentleness was not because he lacked a keen enough perception of the faults and wretchedness of others; it came from his constant searching of his own heart before God, crushing it in repentance over his own failings. No

God help you... You want nothing more from all your prayers and fassting than to force your will on God. Does it surprise you, then, that it has accomplished so little good?

none of us can know the mind of God. He's too big for that.

It's one of those important things you learn in your life, which is, your ego can start believing it is only you... and you don't recognize the people around you.

And that was about all that he really wished the world to know about himself. "I am a nobody," he would write toward the end of the century, when fame had begun to creep up on him. "Treat me as a solar myth, or an echo, or an irrational quantity, or ignore me altogether." But

Humility is attentive patience.

One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

Humility consists in knowing that in what we call 'I' there is no source of energy by which we can rise. Everything, without exception, that is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift, but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.

Nöyryys on samaa kuin tieto, ettei siinä mitä sanotaan minäksi ole lainkaan sellaista energiaa, jonka avulla pääsisimme kohoamaan. Kaikki mitä minussa on arvokasta, on poikkeuksetta peräisin muualta; eikä se ole lahjaa vaa lainaa, joka on alituisesti uudistettava. Kaikki mitä minussa itsessäni on, on poikkeuksetta arvotonta; ja jos anastan omakseni muualta saamiani lahjoja, nekin heti muuttuvat arvottomiksi.

I have never caused anyone to weep. I have never spoken with a haughty voice. I have never made anyone afraid. I have never been deaf to words of justice and truth.