Quotes About Humility

Nothing but grace makes a man so humble and, at the same time, so glad.

Also consider that someday, when you're dead and rotted, kids with their baby teeth will sit in their time-geography class and laugh about how stupid you were.

When we find that God's ways always coincide with our own ways, it's time to question who we're really worshipping, God or ourselves.

I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.

You can't have ego and gratitude at the same time.

It's high time you were shown That you really don't know all there is to be known.

Our time on earth is not well spent by counting rewards before God has given them to us, but rather, by looking for our faults and repenting of them

Since there were others, a long time ago, who were kind enough to give me a hard time and allow me to study with them, I try and express the same Buddhist courtesy.

I say on the air all time, "if you take what I say as gospel, you're an idiot."

No man is charming all of the time. Even Cary Grant is on record saying he wished he could be Cary Grant.

It's my luck that every time I feel I completely comprehend God's plan, I don't have a pencil with me.

It's good for the soul to hear yourself as others hear you, and next time maybe, just maybe, you will not talk so much, so loudly, so brilliantly, so charmingly, so utterly shamelessly foolishly.

Sure. My ego's had enough time to recover a modicum of dignity. Let's make sure we crush it again before I mistake myself for a god. -Acheron

Early on everyone should do, every time they do a big film, they should do a little film. It really does keep you grounded.

If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity and faith, and seek not at any time the fame of being learned.

I have been a fan of Jesse Terry since the first time I heard him. He's a humble - and humbling - talent.

Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.

You can't go around saying you're the best, all the time, 'cause it puts a target on your back.

It's a time for us to take counsel from God rather than give him counsel about all the things we think he ought to be doing.

I have the faith of a Breton peasant and by the time I die I hope to have the faith of a Breton peasant's wife.

It's not a very sane thing to try to be great all the time.

I must dissent emphatically from any proposal to spend any money on preparing a statue of me, more especially at a time when people do not have enough food and clothing.

Everyday I look in the mirror and make sure I don't pinch myself so I don't wake up. I don't take it for granted. All the time I say: 'Why me?'

Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.