Quotes About Humility

L'intelligence n'a rien à trouver, elle a à déblayer. Elle n'est bonne qu'aux tâches serviles.

Nous n'avons pas à acquérir l'humilité. L'humilité est en nous. Seulement nous nous humilions devant de faux dieux.

He who treats as equals those who are far below him in strength really makes them a gift of the quality of human beings, of which fate had deprived them. As far as it is possible for a creature, he reproduces the original generosity of the Creator with regard to them. This is the most Christian of virtues.

EFFACEMENT Dieu m'a donné l'être pour que je le lui rende. C'est comme une de ces épreuves qui ressemblent à des pièges et qu'on voit dans les contes et les histoires d'initiation. Si j'accepte ce don, il est mauvais et fatal ; sa vertu apparaît par le refus. Dieu me permet d'exister en dehors de lui. A moi de refuser cette autorisation. L'humilité, c'est le refus d'exister en dehors de Dieu. Reine des vertus.

Impossible de pardonner à qui nous a fait du mal, si ce mal nous abaisse. Il faut penser qu'il ne nous a pas abaissés, mais a révélé notre vrai niveau.

If I insist on knowing exactly what God is doing and what He plans to do with my future, if I demand to understand His ways with me in the past, I can never be content until I am equal with God.

An inability to encourage someone else is usually rooted in an absorption with self that is blind to the needs or gifts of others, or a pride that cannot bring itself to praise God's grace in them.

To the connoisseur of scenes, nothing is more enjoyable than a thorough, melodramatic, egoistic humility.

Sam was so pleased that he asked the man to lunch, and telephoned to him often, to the end that the man, who had regarded Sam as one of his gods, saw that he was merely a solitary and common human being, and despised him and was uninterested.

To underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.

EMONE Non pensare che sia nel giusto solo il tuo carattere, solo ciò che dici, e nient'altro. Chi crede di essere il solo a capire, il solo a poter parlare, il solo a possedere un'anima retta, appena lo apri scopri che è vuoto. Ma che un uomo, anche se già è saggio, impari molto e non pretenda troppo, ciò non è vergognoso per nulla.»

Waitressing: [...] She was a very old soul, which meant that her life was driven by love and not ego. [...] She, on a soul level, had decided to commit a huge part of her life to serving people, to being kind and caring and wouldn't seek a lot of attention for it. The work was its own reward.

Never assume that what you know is all there is to know.

We don't choose our flaws, unfortunately.

Whoever started the rumor that life has to be perfect is a very wicked person, if you ask me. Of course it's not!

We've all got to have some kind of failure in life, and I had mine early. I got back on my feet. I learned that failing doesn't mean you are a failure; it just means you're a human being.

But maybe I was lucky, I find myself thinking. We've all got to have some kind of failure in life, and I had mine early. I got back on my feet. I learned that failing doesn't mean you are a failure; it just means you're a human being.

Do not believe that you alone can be right. The man who thinks that, The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul— A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.

Take these things to heart, my son, I warn you. All men make mistakes, it is only human. But once the wrong is done, a man can turn his back on folly, misfortune too, if he tries to make amends, however low he's fallen, and stops his bullnecked ways. Stubbornness brands you for stupidity - pride is a crime.

Cling not to one mood, And deemed not thou art right, all others wrong. For whoso thinks that wisdom dwells with him, That he alone can speak or think alright, Such oracles are empty breath when tried. The wisest man will let himself be swayed By other's wisdom and relax in time.

In matters where I have no cognizance I hold my tongue.

And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.

And if to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.

For if any man thinks that he is alone is wise--that in speech, or in mind, he hath no peer--such a soul, when laid open, is ever found empty.