Quotes About Humility

Mann macht und Gott lacht." "Which means?" "Man makes plans and God laughs.

The successful are those who can be saved from their own selfishness.

En la tierra encuentro una profunda sugestión de pobreza. Y amo la pobreza por sobre todas las cosas. No la pobreza sórdida y hambrienta, sino la pobreza bienaventurada, simple, humilde, como el pan moreno.

I wish the whole world could see what I see. Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

Most of the worst errors I made in my life came from forgetting to act small.

He that would build lastingly must lay his foundation low. The proud man, like the early shoots of a new-felled coppice, thrusts out full of sap, green in leaves, and fresh in colour, but bruises and breaks with every wind, is nipped with every little cold, and, being top-heavy, is wholly unfit for use. Whereas the humble man retains it in the root, can abide the winter?s killing blast, the ruffling concussions of the wind, and can endure far more than that which appears so flourishing.

Los fundadores, ya se sabe, eran campesinos: gentecita humilde que traía del campo sus costumbres, como rezar el rosario, beber aguardiente, robarle al vecino y matarse por chichiguas con el prójimo en peleas a machete. ¿Qué podía nacer de semejante esplendor humano? Más. Y más y más y más.

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

Whenever we are sure that we are among the righteous, we immediately find ourselves among the arrogant.

People, nearly all of them, don't know how to worry about others without being presumptuous, with finesse, with modesty. They think they know. My sister thought she knew. Knew the human race. . . . Knowledge doesn't know. But that's something few understand.

Some people mention the mistakes of others not to learn from them, but to claim they are perfect.

Stop," cried the traveler. "What God does is well done. Do not claim to know more than He. God has given organs to this frail creature; let them develop and grow strong by exercise, use, experience, and liberty.

The humble listen to their brothers and sisters because they assume they have something to learn. They are open to correction, and they become wiser through it.

The humble person is open to being corrected, whereas the arrogant is clearly closed to it. Proud people are supremely confident in their own opinions and insights. No one can admonish them successfully: not a peer, not a local superior, not even the pope himself. They know - and that is the end of the matter. Filled as they are with their own views, the arrogant lack the capacity to see another view.

When I was twenty, I thought I knew everything there was to know. By thirty, I realised I didn't know shit. I had spent ten years learning things that I would then spend ten years having to unlearn.

La familia ya es de por sí algo penoso cuando es tuya, así que no digamos la de los demás.

In walking, far from any vehicle or machine, from any mediation, I am replaying the earthly human condition, embodying once again man's inborn, essential destitution. That is why humility is not humiliating: it just makes vain pretensions fall away, and thus nudges us towards authenticity.

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Cuanto más me inclinaba a creer en mi importancia, más me dabas tú la sensación de mi nada...

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain.

We thought ourselves kings of the ages. Now we find that our civilization has been nothing but a brief, brightly lit nursery, where we have played with paper crowns and wooden scepters. Beyond the door are the dark wastes where Leviathans wrestled for millennia. We are a blink of an eye, a joke amidst a tragedy.