Quotes About Humility

Pedir perdón no es una varita mágica que se agita y borra de golpe nuestros errores.

Cristo, naciendo pobre, nos está invitando a amar la pobreza como prenda de su divinidad encarnada

que enseñar a perder, viejo: con altura, con elegancia, con convicción. Hay que escribir un Dale Carnegie al revés: "Cómo perder seguro" o "Derrótese usted mismo en los momentos libres", algo así... Y sería un éxito, porque le hablaría a la gente de lo que conoce. Eso necesitamos: un manual de perdedores.

I choose to suppress the initial categories I want to put people in - rich, poor, together, not together, druggie, yuppie, rocker, loser, winner, cool, uncool. I choose to remember that I don't know their struggle or their pain. I choose to err on the side of grace because someday I'll stand before God, and I pray He'll err on the side of grace with me.

He is a man, no more. We will offer what we have, and he must be content.

Better to allow people to think you're a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

None of us like to think we are silly. But all must acknowledge that they are capable of silliness, from time to time

If you notice that you have a strong desire to be right, try not venturing an opinion the next time someone else expresses one.

As dear Erasmus said, "It is part of the highest civility if, while never erring yourself, you ignore the errors of others." Besides, it is a law of nature that he who corrects others will soon do something perfectly awful himself. On

Humility is easy, although Miss Manners much admires brilliant humility. The usual variety, with its claims about feeling awed and hoping to be worthy, is tiresome. But it is extremely difficult to make others acquainted with how very much one has to be humble about. No, that's not quite what Miss Manners meant to say. What is difficult is to establish gracefully that one has cause to be proud and haughty, before one can be contrastingly humble. The

I am extremely humble," answered Brother Gregory loftily, gesturing to his clothing in turn. "In fact, if you measure humility by the greatness of the change from one's previous attire, I am possibly the most humble man in London. With my spiritual exercises in addition, I grow in Humility by leaps and bounds. Actually I expect to see God quite soon." Brother Gregory looked very self-satisfied.

He didn't want to puff her up. Puffed-up women are one of the original sources of trouble in the world. If anyone knew that, it was he. He counted it as one of his duties to mankind to keep women from puffing themselves up, though it had been a most monumental duty in his own marriage. A job requiring a hero. It was one of those things that God, being male, questioned you about before you were let into heaven, and he was proud to say that he hadn't neglected it.

That is God's way. He upsets everything and loves to annoy the vain most of all.

There's a wonderful story of two people standing before God. God asks them about their goals in life. One person states, "I'd like to be a saint." God responds, "That's very nice." When the other person says, "I'm just trying to be a good human being," God replies, "You are very ambitious.

It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.

You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.

When we look up, it widens our horizons. We see what a little speck we are in the universe, so insignificant, and we all take ourselves so seriously, but in the sky, there are no boundaries. No differences of caste or religion or race.

El Señor no tolera ni el orgullo ni la soberbia en sus criaturas. No se puede desafiar a Dios, ni pretender acercarse a los límites que ha establecido entre el Cielo y la Tierra.*

Los hombres nos olvidamos de que somos una mota de su aliento y tendemos a creernos que no lo necesitamos, pero otras veces le reprocharemos que no esté para ayudarnos cuando lo necesitamos.

Just be quiet and accept the praise.

There is something about the heavens. In this world we live in where I am given so much power and attention, it is good to remember that I am but a bit of dust on a small dot in the universe.

Be grateful that I do not order you destroyed.