Quotes About Humility

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in their understanding of things.

Humility and full consciousness are inseparable.

Every moment you are open, as a humble student, you are surrounded with infinite possibilities of choice.

It is better just to get on with the business of living and minding your own business and maybe, if God likes the way you do things, he may just let you flower for a day or a night. But don't go pestering and begging and telling him all your stupid little sins, that way you will spoil his day.

It's nothing to be ashamed of. There comes a time in everything when you don't know something.

It takes more than just awareness for us to change. It takes courage and humility and the willingness to occasionally feel like fools and laugh at ourselves.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

Never be the best in town. Just be the best 'til the best come around.

In a bull market, one must avoid the error of the preening duck that quacks boastfully after a torrential rainstorm, thinking that its paddling skills have caused it to rise in the world. A right-thinking duck would instead compare its position after the downpour to that of the other ducks on the pond.

Being beaten by your student was the ultimate victory, for a teacher.

If I look narrowly into the best of what I do now, I still see sin, new sin, mixing itself with the best of that I do; so that now I am forced to conclude that, notwithstanding my former fond conceits of myself and duties, I have committed sin enough in one duty to send me to hell, though my former life had been faultless.

We must not be too proud or too stupid to profit by our mistakes—

We must not be too proud or too stupid to profit by our mistakes—and God knows we make 'em.

We'll have to get over the idea that we're the greatest people on earth in every respect, that we're infallible and that no one else has ideas worth considering. One of the reasons we had to fight against odds on Guadalcanal was this insufferable American notion of superiority, and our carelessness in face of danger. It goes back to Pearl Harbor and far beyond.

Baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverise the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make.

Las pequeñas obras deben ser terminadas por sus primeros arquitectos. En cuanto a las grandes, las verdaderas, debe dejarse que la posteridad las complete. ¡Que Dios me libre de pretender completar nunca nada! Todo este libro no es sino un esbozo, el esbozo de un esbozo. ¡Oh, tiempo, energía, dinero, paciencia!

What of it, if some old hunks of a sea-captain orders me to get a broom and sweep down the decks? What does that indignity amount to, weighed, I mean, in the scales of the New Testament?

man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him

Sin embargo, a la mañana siguiente, al despertarme, me surgieron las dudas -de alguna manera, con el sueño, se me habían pasado los humos de la vanidad-. Uno de los momentos más serenos y acertados que tiene un hombre es justo por la mañana, al despertarse.

With no perceptible trace of the vainglorious about him, rather with the offhand unaffectedness of natural regality, he seemed to accept the spontaneous homage of his shipmates.

IT IS BETTER TO KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT AND LET PEOPLE THINK YOU'RE A FOOL, THAN TO OPEN IT AND REMOVE ALL DOUBT.

Let me put it thus: that from the height of Weissenstein I saw, as it were, my religion. I mean, humility, the fear of death, the terror of height and of distance, the glory of God, the infinite potentiality of reception whence springs that divine thirst of the soul; my aspiration also towards completion, and my confidence in the dual destiny.