Quotes About Humility

This is what it must feel like to be an ant among elephants , Akira thought. The giant sequoias made her feel small and insignificant, but in a good way. They reminded her that she wasn't at the center of the universe. That there were things that were far older and bigger than she was.

As Cyprian puts it near the start of his treatise, "We know virtues by their practice rather than through boasting of them."71 If patience is not good in the lived experience of humans, it isn't worth talking about.72

Tertullian recounts the narrative of Jesus, whose labors (unlike Hercules's) did not include killing, capturing, and stealing43 but who instead kept a low profile, who bore reproaches, who would not hear of forcing people, who ate at anyone's table, who declined to call for massive angelic intervention, who rejected the avenging sword, who healed the servant of his enemy, and thereby "cursed for all time the works of the sword.

Occupy a rightful space, neither too much nor too little. Focus neither on your own virtues nor the faults of others.

SOMEONE WHO WANTS to be greater than others should not dig a pit for his friend; rather he should build a hill for himself. —RABBI YISRAEL SALANTER (1810–1883)

As the Sages state: 'The desire for honor removes a man from the world.' However, the reverse is true concerning others, as the Sages said: 'Who is honored? He who honors others.'"7 Do not seek honor for yourself, but go out of your way to honor others.

Leaders must be arrogant enough to believe they are worth following, but humble enough to know that others may have a better sense of the direction they should take.

Let a man be right with God, reconciled through the blood of the cross, humbled at the foot of Calvary; let him be broken, coming to God guilty and hopeless and needy; and at that moment God takes hold of him and transforms and uses all his gifts and qualities, until that man becomes a mighty influence. But he has first to come down from his ladder of pride to the very foot of the cross.

To keep your marriage brimming / With love in the loving cup, / Whenever you're wrong, admit it; / Whenever you're right, shut up.

Oh, I'm not perfect – not by a long stretch. I just make the rest of you look bad.

I haven't needed anything big enough from you to justify being pleasant, and I doubt I ever will.

Nonetheless, we offer our forgiveness. What is the point in being a superior civilisation if you can't do that once in a while?

I don't really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.

If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'

I don't try to come in and act like I know it all, and that's why I put the extra work in of watching film, getting an understanding of what you want from personnel, each player.

A good lesson in keeping your perspective is: Take your job seriously but don't take yourself seriously.

I'm somebody who doesn't feel the need to be in the driver's seat all the time. I appreciate the perspective of being in the passenger's seat sometimes, and I feel fortunate for that because I've learned a lot from that perspective.

You can't come away with this cosmic perspective thinking that you are better than others and want to fight. That's why you'll never have astrophysicists leading nations into war.

We must first listen, then speak - with humility - to genuinely hear the perspectives of those with whom we don't immediately or instinctively agree.

I would say I don't like people who are really into themselves or are very materialistic. Just always talking themselves up. Not being real is the pet peeve. Be true to yourself.

I would work with someone humble like that guy Peter Andre than Madonna.

We're often ashamed of asking for so much help because it seems selfish or petty or narcissistic, but I think, if there's a God - and I believe there is - that God is there to help. That's what God's job is.

I want to hire guys that fit that mold; I want guys where it's about the Philadelphia Eagles first, that check their egos at the door.

I didn't think the real Neal Schon would call a guy like me. I'm just a guy from the Philippines.