Quotes About Humility

In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

The humility that comes as we surrender to the circumstances of whatever challenges face us becomes our greatest ally for transformation. Trust

David was "a star, the Elvis of the Bible." An unusually for such a rockstar with his lust for power, lust for women, lust for life, he had humility of one who knew his gift work harder than he ever would.

It's an extraordinary thing, the moment of surrender. To get down on your knees and ask the silence to save you, to reveal itself to you. To kneel down, to implore, to throw yourself out into space, to quietly whisper or roar your insignificance. To fall prostrate and ask to be carried. To humble yourself with your family, your bandmates, and to discover if there's a face or a name to that silence.

now appreciate that that was a very Bob Dylan thing to do, to turn the tables completely. Bumping into Bob Dylan? What's that like? It's like bumping into Willie Shakespeare. I knew I was on hallowed ground, if not on solid ground. I was not worthy to tie the laces of his moccasins, but I caught my balance and challenged him to a chess game. That's right—a chess game. Bob Dylan had invited me backstage, to

the only true way to be victorious is to surrender. To each other. To love. To the higher power.

Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.

If you are milking cows and feel that you know all that there is to be known about it, you have simply reached the point where you are useless and unfitted for the work.

there is just as much that is interesting, strange, mysterious, and wonderful; just as much to be learned that is edifying broadening, and refining in a cabbage as there is in a page of Latin.

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

Don't count too much on God," said Mitrofanii, quenching his spiritual son's optimism. "He has plenty of other things to worry about besides boot heels.

Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants--forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt.

The story is told that someone stopped Elder J. Golden Kimball on the street on one occasion. There had been a little difficulty in Elder Kimball's family that had become publicly known, and whoever it was who stopped him, no doubt with a mind to injure, said, ' Brother Kimball, I understand you're having some problems with one of your children.' His answer was, ' Yes, and the Lord is having some problems with some of his, too.

Perhaps elements like tenacity and humility combine to form a heroic compound.

One foot on Mount Olympus, the other in the kitty litter.

The compleat gentleman is not a perfect man.

Coming close to death is a humbling experience.

I do not feel superior to nineteenth-century gentlemen or twelfth-century knights

Pride would be a lot easier to swallow if it didn't taste so bad.

I never had much schooling and I don't know that the lack of it hurt me none," Nate said. "I always managed to get by...on my charm and good looks." He smiled. "and my expert pool playing." "You forgot to mention your humble nature." "Modesty prevented it.

Jeff, one day you'll understand that it's harder to be kind that clever

Jeff, one day you'll understand that it's harder to be kind than clever

He smiled. "What?" she said. "I was just thinking." "Thinking what?" "Something Esperanza said to me yesterday," Myron said. "Men tracht und Gott lacht." "Is that German?" "Yiddish." "What does it mean?" "Man plans, God laughs." She repeated it. "I like that." "Me too," he said. He

I say "very little doubt" rather than "no doubt" because, of course, I can be fooled as easily as anyone. The stupidest men are the ones who think they can't be wrong. The stupidest men are the ones who are most sure. The stupidest men are the ones who don't know what they don't know.