Quotes About Humility

Since prayer requires the capacity to be in awe and to feel thankful, the immodest and arrogant personality simply cannot pray because he has no sense of awe or gratitude. He puts too much faith in his own ability to do wonders and ascribes all achievements to his own powers. He lacks the necessary measure of humility.

Wild places are reminders that the world doesn't revolve around us. It doesn't care about our little successes or smashing failures. The tides ebb and flow and the seasons change regardless of how we live or die.

How could we not look down on people when they were looking up at us?

It is better to recognise that we are in darkness than to pretend that we can see the light

God is not interested in using the mighty, but the willing. He is not into using amazing people, just ones who are prepared to lay their lives down before Him. God is not looking for extraordinary, exceptionally gifted people, just laid-down lovers of Jesus who will carry His glory with transparency and not take it for themselves.

The poor know they are in need.

we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'.

Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.

I don't think I'm such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

As for being the best goalkeeper in the world, it's been written occasionally, but I'd never say it myself.

What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself.

I haven't written my own epitaph, and I'm not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it will point people not to me, but to the One I served.

My life is very simple, it is not worth being written into a biography, for that 'masala' is required.

I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don't think that anymore.

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

I never professed to be perfect. I do something wrong or something stupid, I laugh at myself.

I don't mind being wrong, and I don't mind changing my mind.

Even we can get things wrong sometimes.

Persistence and determination are incredibly important. But sometimes you need to analyze the situation and understand when you're wrong. You need to be able to cop to being wrong, learn to change, and continue to grow as a human being.

There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out.

Listen, I've been wrong before, and I'll be wrong again.

Half of my library are old books because I like seeing how people thought about their world at their time. So that I don't get bigheaded about something we just discovered and I can be humble about where we might go next. Because you can see who got stuff right and most of the people who got stuff wrong.

If you can get really good at destroying your own wrong ideas, that is a great gift.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.