Quotes About Humility

Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.

Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy.

There are far too many people out there who take themselves too seriously.

The interesting thing is, the bigger they are, the nicer they are.

I just hope I don't have to explain all the times I've used His name in vain when I get up there.

I don't care how long you've been around, you'll never see it all.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect -and I don't live to be- but before you start pointing fingers... make sure you hands are clean!

Never expect God to do for you what you don't do to others.

He's not perfect. You are not either

you are not perfect

They gave me star treatment because I was making a lot of money. But I was just as good when I was poor.

Halftime is the perfect opportunity to shift from trying to understand God to learning to know him. It is the time to humbly accept the fact that you may never fully understand him, but that you need to accept, by faith, that you are known and loved by him.

Let my heart be broken by the things that break the heart of God.

Great leaders desire to serve, not to be served

Humility says, "Lord, I am empty without Your fullness; I am broken without Your wholeness; I am helpless without Your strength; I am clueless without your wisdom. Apart from You I am nothing. I need You!

Prayeressness is the first sign of prideful independence. We begin to trim back our secret time with God when we're feeling great about ourselves, energetic and optimistic about our future, and confident about the path we're taking. It's the first sign that we're getting full of ourselves.

But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.

You have to be dumb enough to be smart enough to do a job you know nothing about. Loose the pride....

When asked if he was better than Morphy, Steinitz, and Capablanca, Fischer responded, Well, I don't like to put things like that in print, it sounds so egotistical. But to answer your question, Yes."- Ginzburg interview, Harper's Magazine 1962

I never learned anything from a match that i won.

The years pass, and a lifetime seems to go by in an instant. I'm told that the young boy is a grandfather now. He has lived a life that should be an example for everyone who achieves greatness of how to be humble and unselfish and how to treat others. It was a joy to be able to coach him for that season and the next year as well, to get to know him as a person as well as player, and it is a great honor to be asked to reminisce about him now.

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

Udaj?, ?e wiem, ?e nic nie wiem.

The New Man was not the victor, loud-mouthed and vain, but the man who was humble and solemn, with the beautiful eyes of a terrified animal. And so through the eyes of these lovers—because even married couples became lovers again with the danger of the front hanging over them—I learned to see the countryside, the flowers on the tables, the children at play, and to see that every hour is a sacrament.