Quotes About Humility

I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid. And

About anyone so great as Shakespeare, it is probable that we can never be right; and if we can never be right, it is better that we should from time to time change our way of being wrong.

I myself was so often hell-bound from my sinful pride that I was sinfully proud of it. Mama

I pray that I lose my voice before my tongue ever shames me.

forgive those assembled for any damnable, prideful foolishness that might be spoken here. We are Your children.

You show her respect. That is a good thing," he said. "Too often it is that men think those who serve are doing it from inferiorness or weakness.

As I said, Princess, I am a writer, and as all know, that is another name for a fool.

To be selfless, you would give charity anonymously, walj softly on the earth, and look out for others-even total strangers-before you look out for yourself. For the Arab mind, the self is an obstacle, an impediment, in humanity's quest foe real progress.

My son, the wise are few; for Wisdom very seldom pleases, so that they are few who seek her. Wisdom will compel whoever entertains her to avoid all selfishness and to escape from praise. But Wisdom seeks them who are worthy, discovering some here and there, unstupefied and uncorrupted by the slime of cant, with whom thereafter is is a privilege to other men to tread the self-same earth, whether or not they know it.

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Why, I'm just as true and honest as dirt. And I'm even more charming than dirt.

If arrogance were shoes, he'd never go barefoot.

If I were useful, you wouldn't know it was me.

Do we say, Oh now I'm going to be nice to the weak and the small? Or do we do as we learned when we were pages?

You're brave, to admit you don't know everything and then do something about it.

When people tell me a knight's job is all glory, I laugh, and laugh, and laugh," Lord Raoul had once told Kel. "Sometimes I can stop laughing before they edge away and talk about soothing drinks.

So, you learned you can't beat everything. So you learned your human. How sad.

It had occurred to me I was not courageous, had never been brave, only arrogant or unthinking.

Humility is my table, respect is my garment, empathy is my food and curiosity is my drink. As for love, it has a thousand names and is by my side at every window.

Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know

By the standards of the European industrial world we are poor peasants, but when I embrace my grandfather I experience a sense of richness as though I am a note in the heartbeats of the very universe. He is no towering oak tree with luxurious branches growing in a land on which Nature has bestowed water and fertility, rather he is like the sayal bushes in the deserts of the Sudan, thick of bark and sharp of thorn, defeating death because they ask so little of life.

Teachers shouldn't make the mistake of always thinking they're the smartest person in the room

If someone tries to follow the narrow way and does not set aside who they think they are and what they think they need, they cannot follow.

a vital component of charity and grace is the ability not to draw attention to one's possession of them.