Quotes About Humility

Lie naked on the table, and let them cut. Criticism is surgery, and humility is the anesthetic that allows you to tolerate it. In the end, the process will make you a stronger, more flexible, and truly creative writer. It will replace attitude with genuine confidence, and empty arrogance with artistry.

Que sçais-je? (What do I know?)

We are all blockheads.

People try to get out of themselves and to escape from the man. This is folly; instead of transforming themselves into angels, they turn into beast; instead of lifting, they degrade themselves. These transcendental humors frighten me, like lofty and inaccessible heights.

It is taking one's conjectures rather seriously to roast someone alive for them.

There is nothing certain but uncertainty, and nothing more miserable and arrogant than man.

I, who make no other profession, find in myself such infinite depth and variety, that what I have learned bears no other fruit than to make me realize how much I still have to learn. To my weakness, so often perceived, I owe my inclination to coolness in my opinions and any hatred for that aggressiveness and quarrelsome arrogance that believes and trusts wholly in itself, a mortal enemy of discipline and truth.

Better to be tentative than to be recklessly sure- to be an apprentice at sixty, than to present oneself as a doctor at ten.

En asuntos de arte la modestia no es una virtud.

THE SECOND TEACHING OF ST. FRANCIS IS that we find God when we become poor enough for God to find us.

Being open to correction means making ourselves vulnerable, and many people are not willing to do that.

Sometimes a man has to be great enough to know how insignificant he is.

I'd guess that you have some purpose to fulfill and that is why you were saved. But don't get a swelled head over it. A cabbage has a purpose when someone needs to make soup.

The fact is, we will all be broken—sooner or later. We can choose to be broken or we can wait for God to crush our pride. If we resist the means God provides to lead us to brokenness, we do not avoid brokenness—we simply make it necessary for God to intensify and prolong the process.

We need to learn how to deny ourselves, so we can do that which does not come naturally—to truly love God and others.

False humility and morbid introspection are, in fact, the opposite of brokenness, as they reveal a preoccupation with self, rather than Christ.

We know Jesus was God. But He was also a man-He got tired; He got hungry; He knew what it was to have crowds pressing around Him all the time; He knew what it was to have His privacy invaded. But He kept right on letting the crowds into His life. He kept on teaching, healing, confronting the powers of hell- and never a cross or impatient word.

Oh, who am I lying to? My supply of grace wouldn't overflow an acorn cap.

from Famous I want to be famous the in the way a pulley is famous,/or a buttonhole,not because it did anything spectacular,/but because it never forgot what it could do.

When allowed to return to the class, your feelings of humility and lonesomeness will render you a much finer student and person.

I was a fool, and I will always be a fool, and there will never, never, be a last day of school.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

HUMILITY: Imitate Jesus and Socrates.

Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.