Quotes About Humility

We get a whole lifetime to learn just one lesson," Samuel Cane said. "How to lose with dignity.

I don't really necessarily think I'm a funny guy, but I like the opportunity to take on something that I don't feel I'm the best at doing.

I'm cool with the way I look, I'm not an ugly dog, but I don't see myself as a stud or anything.

He liked it for its modesty among the bigger efforts. Like a human soul should be in the world, among elephants, galaxies.

To read history, to debate history, is to test our assumptions in the laboratory of real events; to learn, in the process, some appropriate humility about our capacity to forestall crises; and to grasp that extraordinary moments generally demand that ordinary assumptions be hurled out the window. Model-based social sciences, with their search for certainties that appear constant in large sets of data, teach neither humility nor flexibility.

Mortality is a cause for humility, she said to me. None of us knows when he might be taken, as your blessed father was taken. Death, like birth, comes to us all, regardless of rank or station in life.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

There is a noble manner of being poor and who does not know it will never be rich.

Be humble for you are made of dung. Be noble for you are made of stars.

Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.

again. True humility and true pride are the same thing. They both consist of knowing who you really are and what you can do. So

I'm sorry," I said. I felt unbearably ashamed. "I'm sorry." "What for?" "For being a blind, self-satisfied ass. For not seeing . . .

Comenzamos a crecer cuando exponemos nuestros errores, pues es la única oportunidad que tenemos para arrepentirnos, cambiar y poder ver nuestra miseria.

God uses failure to bring us to brokenness, to force us back to a posture of dependence.

The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.

The earth is not just for the clever and the strong.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

Under this cloak is nothing but God. Introduce me as "Nobody, Son of Nobody".

Sometimes people call folks here at the Simple Way saints. Usually they either want to applaud our lives and live vicariously through us, or they want to write us off as superhuman and create a safe distance. One of my favorite quotes, written on my wall here in bold black marker, is from Dorothy Day: "Don't call us saints; we don't want to be dismissed that easily

Lord, free us from our self-deception and attune our hearts to your Spirit, that we might remember how you humbled yourself, and learn to serve one another, whatever our disagreements. Amen.

Patting mother Theresa on the back, someone said to her: 'i wouldn't do what you do for a million dollars.' She said with a grin: 'me neither.

In an age of million-dollar mansions for God, it's hard to imagine that our God prefers tents.

Lord, keep us from following the gods of pride, stubbornness, vanity, sloth, greed, and comfort that beckon for our allegiance every day. You brought us through the night watches, you who neither slumber nor sleep. We pray to follow you along the path of generosity, humility, and love throughout this day. Amen.