Quotes About Humility

Epicureanism says, "Be sensuous; enjoy yourself." Education says, "Be resourceful; expand yourself." Materialism says, "Be satisfied; please yourself." Psychology says, "Be confident; fulfill yourself." Pride says, "Be superior; promote yourself" Humanism says, "Be capable; believe in yourself." But God says to us, "Be wise; humble yourself.

Judging is not your job; it is God's job. God is the only one who can judge another person correctly. Your job is to pay mind to your own life and to your relationship with God.

Humility is the leveling agent, the eliminator of all hierarchies. It is the factor that makes us confessional on the one hand, and non-judgmental on the other. No exceptions.

God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it.

Don't ever be afraid to put yourself in a lesser position so that you can learn something from someone who knows more.

Take heed, you who read this, & drop to your knees now & again like the poet Christopher Smart, & kiss the earth & be joyful, & make much of your time, & be kindly to everyone, even to those who do not deserve it. For although you may not believe it will happen, you too will one day be gone, I, whose Levi's ripped at the crotch for no reason, assure you that such is the case. Pass it on.

Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.

As for your ignorance - do not fear it. Instead be humbled by it and tend to it."

The more I study, the more I learn and absorb, the more I realize how truly little I know."

We must transcend the illusion that money or power has any bearing on our worthiness as children of God"

I dream of a simple church marked by the simple proposition that we are "otherly.

It has long been said that the three hardest words to say in the English language are I love you. We heartily disagree! For most people, it is much harder to say I don't know.

If it takes a lot of courage to admit you don't know all the answers, just imagine how hard it is to admit you don't even know the right question.

Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty. —Jefferson Davis

We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again." ~Fiddler, pg. 558

the mind that has convinced itself of its own superiority is incapable of humility, and in the absence of humility, it is incapable of growth.

But lessons only became lessons when one has reached the state of humility required to heed them.

So you ain't nearly as good as you think you are. What a shock. Look at your clothes and armour – you're chopped to pieces, O mighty assassin.

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.

Also I just think I've been lucky enough to have great parents, and I've had good people around me who have always been honest with me, who would give me a purely metaphorical slap if I ever got too big for my boots.

Even if Sadio comes and tells me that he's better than Messi, I'd slap him in his face and tell him 'shut up boy, sit down!' But in 2019, in my perspective, he had a better season.

How can someone who has never been slapped in the face talk about the greatest fighter of all times?

We ended up all living in a one-bedroom apartment that cost $80 a month and sleeping on the floor. My jacket was my first pillow. We really had nothing at all.