Quotes About Humility

Certainly gospel sanity is to be preferred over personal vanity, all the time.

Father, because of past grace, present grace, and future grace, I want to live with bowed knees and palms up toward you. I seek to worship other things less by loving you more.

Glorious Prince of Peace, you who one day will reconcile wolves and lambs, leopards and goats, calves and lions—give me the desire, the humility, and the grace to be a man of peace. As far as it is in my own power (Rom. 12:18–21) and as far as the power of the gospel will take me, let me live as an agent of your reconciling love. I pray in your peerless and peace-full name. Amen.

All of us would like to have been born Infallible, but since we knew we weren't, It's better to attend to those who speak In honesty and good faith, and learn from them.

Nobody, Nobody can be sure they're always right. The ones who are fullest of themselves that way Are the emptiest vessels.

Life is shaky. Never, son, forget How risky and slippy things are in this world. Walk easy when the jug's full, and don't ever Take your luck for granted. Count your blessings And always be ready to pity other people.

Chorus: Consider well, my son. All men make mistakes. But mistakes don't have to be forever, They can be admitted and atoned for. It's the overbearing man who is to blame.

Nothing's secure. Gold's only lead When you stop to think. On your way up, show consideration To the ones you meet on their way down. The Latin root of 'condescension' Means we all sink.

It's been a long time since anybody caught me saying something stupid.

A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.

You can't win all the time. There are guys out there who are better than you.

When the rest of the congregation rose at the entrance of the choir he kept his seat. He argued that rising to one's feet at such a time tended to make the choir-boys conceited.

I am not one of the great journalists of my time.

The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else.

It's kind of weird, because I look at myself as just a normal person. My friends get rejected all the time, so why shouldn't I? I don't think I'm anything special.

No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right.

I think once I fail enough as a dad, I'll be looking for help wherever I can get it. I just need enough time to screw things up and then I'll start looking to TV dads for advice.

If somebody knew every time they did something it was going to be a hit there would never be any failures. Sadly, that's not how it works. You take nothing for granted.

I have a hard time retaining the lines. Even on set I make mistakes but I'm okay with that.

Maybe at the same time as I'm more confident today, I'm also more humble.

Meanwhile, the meek are a long time inheriting the earth.

It's nothing to be ashamed of. There comes a time in everything when you don't know something.

If Christ Himself needed to retire from time to time to the mountain-top to pray, lesser men need not be ashamed to acknowledge that necessity.

It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed.