Quotes About Humility

For years, I tried to resist the hero label.

Your Bret Harts can lace my boots.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

Just because you don't know everything don't mean you know nothing.

Don't be so defensive and afraid to be proven wrong that you miss the opportunity to learn from your mistakes.

Marriage is not about our ultimate happiness," she replied. "That is a lie from the devil. Marriage was made to refine us, to grow our character. It exposes the worst in us so that we see the need for humility, grace, forgiveness, and, most of all, our need for Jesus in our marriage.

Flashy on the outside wasn't how Jesus rolled, and flashy on the inside doesn't come from us. We roll in minivans of clay so that God's awesomeness is clearly recognized for what it is: Him and not us.

The world doesn't need more bling. It needs more clay.

We might have to choose to let go of the need to prove our point, choosing instead to do the right thing: to impart grace and deal with the other person in love and with utmost patience.

If you play the fool and exalt yourself, or if you plan evil, clap your hand over your mouth!" (30:32). Here it is, translated for social media: "If you are tempted to slam someone online or brag on Facebook or send off a nasty tweet, turn off the screen and walk away!

He gives me a look that says, "Dude, if I knew that do you think I'd have enlisted your puny help?" I snicker. "Something funny here." "You. All prickly and pissed 'cause there's something you don't know. Got to call on the megaservices of the Mega." "Ever occur to you I'm using you for reasons your inferior human brain can't begin to understand.

Love hath no pride.

When man thinks he knows God's course better than God himself is when hundreds die—

But if there's one thing I've learned in life it's this: assume makes an ass out of 'u' and 'me.' 

Reluctantly he turned to Ramsay. "Jillian, I'd like you to meet--" Ramsay Logan," Ramsay interrupted, thrusting himself forward. "Chieftan of the largest keep in the Highlands and--" "My ass, you are." Quinn snorted. "The Logan scarcely has a pot to"--he broke off and cleared his throat--"cook in.

I was wrong. I wasn't poised between stupid and testing my limits. Miles of uncharted stupid stretched on both sides of the line on which I stood.

But if there's one thing I've learned in life it's this: assume makes an ass out of 'u' and 'me.' Ã¢â'¬Â "Cute," I said, spelling ass-u-me out in my head.

Be nice to People on your way up,Because your gonna meet them on your way down

Es gehört viel Demut und Selbstüberwindung dazu, die Größe seines Geistes so zu verhüllen, daß kein Unschuldiger durch sie niedergeschmettert wird.

You've really got to listen and let them have their say. When they're done, ask, "What would you want?" or "What do you think would be the right thing to do?" When I was in my twenties, I had all the answers. Now that I'm in my eighties, I'm not so sure my answers are always right.

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

A rationalist is simply someone for whom it is more important to learn than to be proved right; someone who is willing to learn from others - not by simply taking over another's opinions, but by gladly allowing others to criticize his ideas and by gladly criticizing the ideas of others

The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know; our knowledge of our ignorance. For this indeed, is the main source of our ignorance - the fact that our knowledge can be only finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.