Quotes About Humility

Lord," I had written, "protect my family and me. Forgive me my sins, and help me guard against pride and despair. Give me the wisdom to do what is right and just. And make me an instrument of your will.

Senhor", eu tinha escrito, "protege minha família e a mim. Perdoa meus pecados, e me ajuda a evitar o orgulho e o desespero. Dá-me sabedoria para fazer o que é certo e justo. E faz de mim instrumento da Tua vontade.

We must talk and reach for common understandings, precisely because all of us are imperfect and can never act with the certainty that God is on our side; and yet at times we must act nonetheless, as if we are certain, protected from error only by providence.

I wasn't great. My stump speech was stiff, heavy on policy speak, short on inspiration and humor. I also found it awkward to talk about myself. As an organizer, I'd been trained to always stay in the background.

I didn't feel that I deserved to be in the company of the transformative figures who'd been given the Nobel Peace Prize. Instead, I saw the prize as a call to action.

If there is a lesson here it has to do with humility. For all our vaunted intelligence and complexity, we are not the sole authors of our destinies or of anything else. You may exercise diligently, eat a medically fashionable diet, and still die of a sting from an irritated bee. You may be a slim, toned paragon of wellness, and still a macrophage within your body may decide to throw in its lot with an incipient tumor.

I've always found people love you best if you can laugh at your own foolish misfortunes and keep mum about everyone else's

Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?

Let's all sing the redneck national anthem: Settle for what you can get.

Ms. Annie said all God's children have to take a shit, but you'd never know it from the way they treat the ones that clean it up.

I am not one to argue with wild mushroomers who claim the distinction of being still alive.

As long as we won't commit to knowing everything, the presumption is we know nothing.

Odds are about a hundred to one, you are not destined for greatness. Your people will appreciate you all the same.

No man wants to hear he has been a fool.

Conscious Evolution Conscious evolution inspires in us a mysterious and humble awareness that we have been created by this awesome process of evolution and are now being transformed by it. Barbara Marx Hubbard

No aru taka wa, tsume o kakusu, as the Japanese saying goes. The hawk with talent hides its talons.

Well, if anybody ever compiles a list of the high-water marks of human cleverness, I'm afraid that's unlikely to merit consideration.

I thought of an expression my father had once told me: Be good to people on your way up. You may meet them again on your way down.

I got no idea wht a writer of a book should have respect. Or even get the time of day, unless he's a prophet. It's a sign of our present-day hell. Books, think about it, the writer of a book does envy, sloth, gluttony, lust, larceny, greed or what? Oh, vanity. He don't miss a single one of them. He is a peeping Tom, an onanist, a busybody, and he's faking humility every one of God's minutes.

I shall clasp my hands together and bow to the corners of the world.

To this list I would add one more thing. Elders are more often listeners than speakers. And when they speak, they can talk for a long while without using the word I.

It is the sorrowful penitent who is acceptable; that is the kind of woman these texts seek. One can't help but think that the men who relish this recollection of Mary the penitent sinner are those who are trying to inform their own world with their own vision of what sexual and gendered relationships ought to be, with women not enticing men with the dangers of sex but falling at their feet in humble submission and penitence.

God loved rocks, houseflies, weeds, and poor people above all the rest of His creations, and that's why He made so many of them.

A humble person is more concerned about what is right than about being right, about acting on good ideas than having the ideas, about embracing new truth than defending outdated position, about building the team than exalting self, about recognizing contribution than being recognized for making it.