Quotes About Humility

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

En medio de mi inorancia conozco que nada valgo: soy la liebre o soy el galgo asigún los tiempos andan; pero también los que mandan debieran cuidarnos algo.

Ninguno me hable de penas porque yo penando vivo y naides se muestre altivo aunque en el estribo esté, que suele quedarse a pie el gaucho más alvertido

El lacayo pide; el digno merece. Aquél solicita del favor lo que este espera del mérito. Ser digno significa no pedir lo que se merece, ni aceptar lo inmerecido. Mientras los serviles trepan entre las malezas del favoritismo, los austeros ascienden por la escalinata de sus virtudes. O no ascienden por ninguna.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow;

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.

If there is anything good about exile, it is that it teaches one humility. It accelerates one's drift into isolation, an absolute perspective. Into the condition at which all one is left with is oneself and one's language, with nobody or nothing in between. Exile brings you overnight where it would normally take a lifetime to go.

A friend said, "Ah, I get it. All of my life I have gone into every next event asking, in effect, What's in it for me? Now I see that what I must do is go into every event asking, What can I do for them?" And my friend had grievously missed the point. The great discovery is that we have nothing to give at all to anyone, anywhere.

The first step towards knowledge is to accept your own ignorance.

Those who consider themselves good teachers probably aren't.

You probably know more about life, real life, than most people. You never really know what life is all about until you have suffered and been humbled and beaten down by life. Then it all of a sudden becomes very real. Jesus did not understand what life was going to be like for him, and he was God, until he went off on his own. He also was one of us, a homeless beggar with nowhere to lay his head.

The difference between God and a US senator? God doesn't think he's a senator.

JESUS LOVES YOU—EVERYONE ELSE THINKS YOU'RE AN ASSHOLE

I'm pretty insistent about taking blame when it's deserved; I'm less concerned about claiming credit." DeWitt

True humility is the absence of anyone to be proud." Humility is not a stance; it is simply the absence of self. In the same way, relationship is the absence of separation, and it can be felt with each breath, each sensation, each thought, each cloud in the sky, each person that we meet. "And being nothing, you are everything. That is all.

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself.

It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.

The road to success leads through the valley of humility, and the path is up the ladder of patience and across the wide barren plains of perseverance. As yet, no short cut has ever been discovered.