Quotes About Humility

Ego is probably one of the biggest poisons we can have - it's toxic to any environment.

We had very few things. I had a couple pairs of jeans, a couple shirts. And same with my mom and sister. I think my sister had, like, two toys. We were living off of instant noodles.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you're doomed; you're finished.

I don't have the best track record with quotes.

I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

I never needed much, and I never thought I'd get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.

Do not make judgments, and you will travel no quicker road to the forgiveness of your sins. 'Judge not, so that you may not be judged' (Lk. 6:37).

Mountains don't kill people, they just sit there.

I don't live lavishly, so it's not like I have 20 assistants and travel privately and shop every day.

We travel so far only to land where we are. We imagine other lives, only to meet who we are. We seek out love in special ways, only to find everyone is special. Humbly, we can't avoid this journey.

At the heart of Christian ethic is humility; at the heart of its parodies, pride. Different roads with different destinations, and the destinations color the character of those who travel by them.

Explore often. Only when you will know how small you are and how big the world is.

Be more humble than a blade of grass, more tolerant than a tree, always offering respect onto others and never expecting any in return

The fruit of love's great tree is poverty; Whoever knows this knows humility.

The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.

Like the trees, we are visitors, guests of the earth.

When a storm comes, it is the trees that get uprooted. Be as humble as the grass and nothing can touch you.

A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.

It is not among the palm trees that I wish to die, but among the poor who are Jesus Christ.

It is ourselves that we must spread under Christ's feet, not coats nor lifeless branches or shoots of trees.

If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.

How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see / Crowned from some single herb or tree.

Humility is like a tree, whose root when it sets deepest in the earth rises higher, and spreads fairer and stands surer, and lasts longer, and every step of its descent is like a rib of iron.