Quotes About Humility

Holy Science: 'A voluntary descent from the dignity of science is perhaps the hardest lesson which humility can teach.' - Samuel Johnson

Obey the warning signs; don't go into the wilderness alone; and don't believe for a moment that you are better, stronger, faster, or more nimble than the natural forces around you.

No job is beneath you. You ought to be thrilled you got a job in the mailroom And when you get there, here's what you do: Be really great at sorting mail.

I was hugely impressed... was the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfectly willing to admit it, and didn't want to leave until he understood. That's heroic to me. I wish every grad student had that attitude.

Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.

No job should, be beneath us. And if you can't(or won't) sort mail, Where is the proof that you can do anything?

if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable.

Anybody can get chewed out. It's the rare person who says, oh my god, you were right. As opposed to, no wait, the reason is... We've all heard that

In the fifty years my parents were married, in the thousands of conversations my dad had with me, it had just never come up. And so there I was, weeks after his death, getting another lesson from him about the meaning of sacrifice—and about the power of humility

I quote my father to people almost every day. Part of that is because if you dispense your own wisdom, others often dismiss it; if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable. Of course, when you have someone like my dad in your back pocket, you can't help yourself. You quote him every chance you get.

I quote my father to people almost every day. Part of that is because if you dispense your own wisdom, others often dismiss it; if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable.

This student's eyes widened. "I admit it," I told him. "I'm a recovering jerk. And that gives me the moral authority to tell you that you can be a recovering jerk, too." For

No Job Is Beneath You

But being considered the best speaker in a computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.

the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfectly willing to admit it, and didn't want to leave until he understood. That's heroic to me.

If you dispense your own wisdom, others often dismiss it; if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable !

If you've been called to be a lawyer, don't stoop to be a king.

Good made human beings poor and needy; He even inscribed humility in the human flesh when he created male and female, that is, incomplete creatures. He made them, from the very beginning, two beings, moving in search of one another, each one "unsatisfied" with only himself or herself. God has positioned human beings on a plane that inclines upward, not downward, so that union between man and woman should move them beyond the other sex upward to the supreme Other, God Himself.

A scholar who thinks s/he knows everything is a false scholar.

**(c)(p) I COULD NEVER BOAST THE ABUNDANCE OF WEALTH BECAUSE I HELP THOSE IN THE POVERTY FROM WHICH I GREW WITH THE LITTLE RESOURCES WHICH I WORKED FOR. I DO NOT NEED THE SPOTLIGHT TO SHOW WHAT I SHARE. THOSE WHO ASKED BOB MARLEY ABOUT MONEY GOT ONE STRAIGHT ANSWER-WHAT IS MONEY TO YOU?. HE TURNED THE QUESTION BACK AT THEM. I TAUGHT HIM THAT IN TRENCH TOWN.WE NEVER STOLE FROM ANYONE! POVERTY DOES NOT TURN YOU INTO A THIEF! GREED AND ENVY DOES THAT! I AM RAS CARDO.

I'm saying it to your face. Just because you can drive a car doesn't mean you can fix one. Eating ham ain't the same as raising a pig.

Don't allow the ego fruit to ripen before it falls.

May God grant us the grace to laugh at ourselves.

25. Practice Humility Practice humility and do not try to get ahead of each other. A winner requires a loser. Retribution provokes reprisal. What a foolish circle to be trapped within. We are born in humility and we die in humility. From beginning to end, it is a proven path.