Quotes About Humility

I couldn't strut around like Mick Jagger, or smash my instrument up like Jimi Hendrix or Pete Townshend: bitter subsequent experience has taught me that if you get carried away and try and smash up a piano by pushing it offstage, you end up looking less like a lawless rock god and more like a furniture removal man having a bad day.

If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck.

True Christianity is not a program of self-improvement; it's an acknowledgment that something more than self-improvement is needed.

The obvious difference between Paul and us is that Paul bragged about his weakness, and we try to hide it.

The gospel is not good news to those who pride themselves on their hard work. It is infuriating news.

God never encourages self-reliance.

Bible reading is meant to clothe you in faith so that when either blessing or adversity (or the boringly mundane) confront you, you'll be enabled to face them with courage and humility, remembering the story of how you've been loved throughout the ages. We don't read the Bible to earn God's blessing. We read it because his blessing is already ours.

A know-all or know-it-all is a person who behaves as if he or she knows everything. Now listen up, no one knows everything, regardless of world renowned professors and intellectuals. Oh! yes, even you personally you don't know everything and you will never know everything, no matter your level of education or qualification. Thus, disregard whatever you think you know presently and then humble yourself in order to learn something new from someone else or others. ~Emeasoba George

A successful person is not just someone who is rich, popular, highly educated or financially buoyant. it is actually someone who is real, humble and kind to others. -Emeasoba George

A true leader/love ought not to be self-seeking i.e. he/she ought not to be concerned with only his/her own welfare/well-being.

All it takes to be made in life is just humility, punctuality, availability, utilization and maximization of the prospects i.e. the chances or opportunities that can lead one to success. ~Emeasoba George

Anyone who professes to be an ideal leader or a true leader has to be selfless, accountable, transparent, principled, inspiring, punctual, humble, responsible and responsive all-round and at all times. -Emeasoba George

Dare to ask questions whenever you are not clarified. Never feel too wise or too educated to learn something new from someone else or others. For, you don't know it all and you will never know it all. Yes! learning is meant to be a continuous process.

Dare to ask questions whenever you are not clarified. Never feel too wise or too educated to learn something new from someone else or others. For, you don't know it all and you will never know it all. Yes! learning is meant to be a continuous process. -Emeasoba George

Genuine success should be celebrated. Oh! yes, but never be carried away by it (your own achievement). Because, once you are carried away by it (your own achievement), failure is inevitable. Besides that, being carried away by one's own success makes one to lose focus. ~Emeasoba George

Never give anything for recognition. Just endeavour to give something worthy of recognition always.

Never give anything for recognition. Just endeavour to give something worthy of recognition always. -Emeasoba George

No one is self-made in actual sense. Yes! anyone who claims to be a self-made person is delusive. For, each and everyone of us has been helped, supported or blessed by someone else or God himself in one way or another. Thus, you've got to show gratitude to anyone or God who deserves it. -Emeasoba George

No one knows everything. Oh! yes, you might have seen it all. But, you don't know it all yet and you will never know it all. Thus, keep on learning something new from everyone and from everything you come across. ~Emeasoba George

Proudness is a feeling of deep pride, pleasure and satisfaction in one's own or someone else's achievements, qualities, skills, potentials or possessions. Are you proud at all? If yes, then you've got to get rid of it (pride) and afterwards saturate yourself with humility. In case you don't know, God opposes the proud. But guess what? he gives more grace to the humble (James 4:6). Yes! God's grace is only and fully available to the humble. -Emeasoba George

Self-importance is an exaggerated sense of one's own value or importance. Now listen up, you are important. But, you are not too important or all-important. Yes! no human is indispensable. Thus, never feel too important or all-important no matter your family background, political or social status and regardless of your of education/qualification/intelligence/wealth/riches.

Self-importance is an exaggerated sense of one's own value or importance. Now listen up, you are important. But, you are not too important or all-important. Yes! no human is indispensable. Thus, never feel too important or all-important regardless of your level of education/qualification/intelligence/wealth/riches/family background.

Selflessness is not just thinking less about yourself. It's more of satisfying someone else's needs at your own expense. Yes! that is it and every true love/leader ought to be selfless. Besides, selflessness is all about self-sacrifice.

The willingness to give others a listening ear will automatically make you teacheable and make them your teachers. Listen up, you ought to be teacheable if you've been unteacheable all these while. Because, the more you think you know, the more you will realize that you know less than you even thought that you knew. Besides, no human is an island of itself. So, you are expected to be punctual and humble in order to learn something new from someone else or others.