Quotes About Humility

He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.

Just so. And wonder, my friend, is the intellect's most feared foe. Its path is love, and love is the language of humility. The rational mind would stand over it with a bloodstained sword, and in the empty bleakness of its eyes you will see its triumph.

TA truly successful leader is a reluctant leader. Not one whose every word is greeted with frenzied cheering either - after all what happens to the mind of such a leader, after such scenes are repeated again and again? A growing certainty, a belief in one's own infallibility, and onward goes the march into disaster. No, Bugg I won't have anyone kissing my feet ????, ' I'm relieved to hear that master, since those feet have not known soap in a long time'.

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 . . .

Pure genius. Why didn't I think of that?' The tone began rising once more. 'Why? Because I'm not an idiot!!

Mortal, yours is a surpassing conceit … which I cannot but applaud.

He openly opposes no one, and he finds power a thing to be avoided at all costs.

The final aspect of Kruppe to complete this dream's array of those faces facing him which are Kruppe's own. Or so you would proclaim. You are Humility but, as everyone knows, Humility has no place in Kruppe's life, remember that. So here you will stay.

The perfect hero is one whose heroism none sees. The most precious glory is the glory lost on senseless winds. The highest virtue is the one that remains for ever hidden within oneself.

Bravado usually is ignorance,' Bottle snapped back.

A truly successful leader is a reluctant leader. Not one whose every word is greeted with frenzied cheering either—after all, what happens to the mind of such a leader, after such scenes are repeated again and again? A growing certainty, a belief in one's own infallibility, and onward goes the march into disaster.

We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms.

It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms.

Anyone who has mastered a weapon – truly mastered it – is a humble man or woman.

All you have to do is move around and meet new people to realize how dumb you really are.

Reformers can learn from monks, who spend countless hours cooking or cleaning the grounds or raking the garden, and can view each and every task, no matter how menial or seemingly trivial, not simply as a means to an end, which is frustrating if the final goal seems remote or unattainable. Rather, the tasks are seen as ends in themselves to be celebrated as eminently worthwhile, which paradoxically enhances their possible benefit for the future.

No man is too weak for God to use, only too strong.

None of us can ever humble ourselves too much.

Lloyd-Jones believed the man who is called to preach comes under a sobering humility. He believed that this person is overwhelmed with a deep sense of his own personal unworthiness for such a high and holy task and is often hesitant to move forward to preach for fear of his own inadequacies.

The greatest display of humility that the world has ever witnessed was the incarnation of Christ, which led ultimately to his crucifixion.

History and legend conspire to convince us that there are men who rise above the common lot of humankind, who are set apart from the rest of us by birth or achievement or the favor of the gods; but no man, regardless of his pretensions to greatness, is immune from death, and the death of the so-called great is often more squalid and terrifying than the deaths of their most humble subjects.

had rather save the life of one innocent citizen than take the lives of a thousand enemies," Antoninus had remarked. He had none of Hadrian's restlessness or brooding nature; he was known for a placid temperament and a gentle sense of humor. Under his benevolent rule, the bitterness that had marked the end of Hadrian's reign had almost faded from memory.

The world is not perfect and neither am I; I live with a margin of error.

I want to get a tattoo of myself on my entire body, only two inches taller.