Quotes About Humility

You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way. - Breeze

What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.

A brave leader is not someone who is armed with all the answers.

acknowledge and reward great questions and instances of "I don't know, but I'd like to find out" as daring leadership behaviors. The big shift here is from wanting to "be right" to wanting to "get it right.

Do you know how incredibly brave it is to say "I don't know" when you're pretty sure everyone around you gets it?

Awe and wonder are essential to the human experience. Wonder fuels our passion for exploration and learning, for curiosity and adventure. Researchers have found that awe "leads people to cooperate, share resources, and sacrifice for others" and causes them "to fully appreciate the value of others and see themselves more accurately, evoking humility.

Everyone seems to know too little and say too much.

we're at our most dangerous when we think we've learned everything we need to know

I can be as much of a lost and stumbling traveler as anyone else.

I've learned enough about privilege to know that we're at our most dangerous when we think we've learned everything we need to know about it.

Self-righteousness is the conviction that one's beliefs and behaviors are the most correct.

I am not here to be right, I am here to get it right.

Humility is openness to new learning combined with a balanced and accurate assessment of our contributions, including our strengths, imperfections, and opportunities for growth.

Dare to Lead: I'm here to get it right, not to be right.

Adam is a number one New York Times bestselling writer, and his latest book, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know, might be my new favorite.

York Times bestselling writer, and his latest book, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know,

I say "counterfeit" because when we see someone who we don't like, we disagree with, or is outside our group stumble, fall, or fail, it's tempting to celebrate that suffering together and to stir up collective emotion. That kind of bonding might feel good for a moment, but nothing that celebrates the humiliation or pain of another person builds lasting connection.

Self-righteousness starts with the belief that I'm better than other people and it always ends with me being my very worst self and thinking, I'm not good enough.

Again, it's counterintuitive, but acknowledging uncertainty is a function of grounded confidence, and it feels like humility to me.

no matter how big you think your problems are, someone else's problems could always be bigger, which makes yours relatively small!

I still don't look at myself as a star. I've always had a thankful heart.

No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words

Ragamuffins are simple, direct and honest. Their speech is unaffected. They are slow to claim, "God told me..." As they make their way through the world, they bear wordless, prophetic witness.

The kingdom is not an exclusive, well-trimmed suburb with snobbish rules about who can live there. No, it is for a larger, homelier, less self-conscious caste of people who understand they are sinners because they have experienced the yaw and pitch of moral struggle.