Quotes About Humility

You don't want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I'm here because I've been paid for. I have something to do and I will do that because I'm paying for someone else who has yet to come.

In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons.

He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education and, even more amazing, no superiority complex since he had succeeded despite that lack. He would say often, I been to school three years in my life. In Slaten, Texas, times was hard, and I had to help my daddy on the farm. No recriminations lay hidden under the plain statement, nor was there boasting when he said, If I'm living a little better now, it's because I treats everybody right.

He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education and, even more amazing, no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack. He would say often, I been to school three years in my life. In Slaten, Texas, times was hard, and I had to help my daddy on the farm. No recriminations lay hidden under the plain statement, nor was there boasting when he said, If I'm living a little better now, it's because I treats everybody right.

Usually when one throw's oneself at another's feet, one should be prepared to do a fast roll to avoid being stepped on.

We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate—thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising. —Maya Angelou

I have learnt that I still have lot to learn.

It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is to prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who is yet to come."- Maya Angelou

Humility says there were people before me who found the path. I'm a road builder. For those who are yet to come, I seem to be finding the path and they will be road builders. That keeps one humble. Love keeps one humble.

When I think about myself, I almost laugh myself to death, My life had been one great big joke, A dance that's walked, A song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke, When I think about myself.

In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons. The epitome of sophistication is utter simplicity.

The first step in becoming smarter was to admit what a dumbass you were.

I'm not too proud to beg.

When small people start casting big shadows it is time for sunset.

To keep your marriagebrimming, With love in the weddingcup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up. Ogden

I am very good at groveling.

He couldn't offend the gods with a pointed stick.

My gift is that I always know when I've made an ass of myself.

You now know everything you need to know." "How's that?" the woman asked. "You have learned that you will never learn everything there is to know," he replied. "And you have learned how to stop the pain.

Soltanto le costruzioni piccole possono essere portate a compimento dal loro primo architetto; le grandiose, le vere, lasciano sempre la pietra della cimasa alla posterità. Dio mi guardi dal completare alcunché. Questo intero libro non è che un abbozzo… anzi, non è che l'abbozzo di un abbozzo.

When you're moved to find out who you are, study the graves you encounter as you pass by.Inside rest the bones and weightless dust of men once kings and tyrants, wise men, and those who took pride in their noble birth or wealth, their fame, or their beautiful bodies. Yet what good was any of that against time? All mortals come to know Hades in the end. Look toward these to know who you are.

I have no place in my life for someone who is sure he can do everything.

What if I make a mistake?: she finally said. :Everyone makes mistakes. I make mistakes. If you make a mistake, we'll admit to it, own it, and then fix it.:

For what is more lovable than failure?