Quotes About Humility

There were great advantages to being unimportant.

You think a 'lord' in front of your name is going to make that face any less ugly?

it's better to be embarrassed than dead.

I was coming to realize something very difficult. I was slowly accepting that the way I did things – the way my people did things – might not actually be the best way. In other words, I was feeling humility. I sincerely hope that you never have to feel this emotion. Like asparagus and fish, it's not really as good for you as everyone says it is. Selfishness, arrogance, and callousness got me much further than humility ever did

Sometimes stupid is right," Megan said, then paused. "Hell. I hope nobody ever quotes me on that one.

Most of you Mistborn are probably too proud to crawl. I'm surprised you were willing to do so yourself." "Too proud to crawl?" Kelsier said. "Nosense! Why, I'd say that we Mistborn are too proud not to be humble enough to go crawling about--in a dignified manner, of course." Dockson frowned, approaching the desk. "Kell, that didn't make any sense." "We Mistborn need not make sense.

She did believe in Austre. She loved the teachings of the five Visions. Humility. Sacrifice. Seeing another's problems before your own. Yet she was beginning to think that she—along with many others—had taken this belief too far, letting her desire to seem humble become a form of pride itself. She now saw that when her faith had become about clothing instead of people, it had taken a wrong turn.

Don't you see, boy? This is why you shouldn't be king. Leave the job to men who understand their own corruption; don't let it destroy you.

Oh, my lord, I know it, I do." The beggar laughed. "I own the place, technically. Now, regarding those coins for old Hoid, my good lord…

Well," she said, "I should think it would do every man good to have a wife who isn't as in awe of him as everyone else is. Somebody has to keep you humble.

Pride doesn't win battles.

Wit dropped his bloody handkerchief before Ruthar. "How remarkable," he said. "If you spend your life knocking people down, you eventually find they won't stand up for you. There's poetry in that, don't you think, you storming personification of a cancerous anal discharge?

I told you that I understood crazy," Chet said. "I was wrong. Thank you for the master class.

The best modesty is shown while bragging

Hey, have you heard about the time I saved Huio from being swallowed? Oh yes. He was going to get eaten. By a monster uglier than the women he courts. And I flew into the thing's mouth to save him. Off the tongue. Then I was very humble about having done such a heroic deed.

He grabbed the sword from the man he had felled, holding the weapon in unpracticed hands, staring down a much larger force. "I was wrong about that one, Mistress," Sazed said softly. "I ... apologize." Vin smiled.

Algebra ist gut für die Entwicklung. Ungefähr wie Demut, nur mit mehr Faktoren.

What was a prayer, if not creation? Making something where nothing existed. Creating a wish out of despair, a plea out of anguish. Bowing one's back before the Almighty, and forming humility from the empty pride of a human life.

those who led were the lowest of men, for they were required to serve everyone.

You have nearly died, and so I will say something to distract you from the serious mind-numbing implications of your own mortality! I hate your shoes.

Shai's uncle Won had taught her that being bested was a rule of life. No matter how good you were, someone was better. Live by that knowledge, and you would never grow so confident that you became sloppy.

Successful leaders all share one common trait—they believe that they can do a better job than the alternatives. Humility is fine when considering your responsibility and duty, but when it comes time to make a decision, you must not question yourself.

To be honest, 'arrogant' doesn't feel like quite the right word. It's not specific enough." "And what would be the right word, then?" "I don't know. 'Errorgant,' perhaps." Jasnah raised a skeptical eyebrow. "It means to be twice as certain as someone who is merely arrogant," Shallan said, "while possessing only one-tenth the requisite facts.

Making something where nothing existed. Creating a wish out of despair, a plea out of anguish. Bowing one's back before the Almighty, and forming humility from the empty pride of a human life.