Quotes About Humility

tell me what you boast of and I'll tell you what you lack.

Powiedz mi, czym siÄ™ szczycisz, a ja ci powiem, czego ci brakuje.

Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it in the most pompous and pedantic way possible?... Is it to fool the world or just to fool themselves?

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. —historian and essayist Thomas Carlyle

I guess even really annoying people can be right sometimes.

We need never feel either that we have too far to travel or that we have already arrived and can stop practicing the everyday virtues of compassion and mindfulness.

We all have to surrender our need for our world to be ordered according to our conceptions of justice, logic, and rational motives. Just as you must have realized by now that your world does not, in fact, revolve around you—that you have very little authority over your life and that even making it alive until sundown is not in your hands—you must reach the stage of spiritual maturity where you surrender to God.

remind yourself continually of the higher truth that you cannot possibly see all the facts or details of any situation, nor visualize the long-term consequences of your actions.

Beggars can't be choosers.

The goat boy never gloats.

The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?

Once told by an interviewer, Everybody would like to be Cary Grant, Grant is said to have replied, So would I.

He going feel like a fool and there don't be no man yet born who can deal with feeling like a damn fool.

It is often the case that the true humility of Christ is not understood. It was not in having a low opinion of his own character and claims, but it was in taking a low place in order to raise others to a higher. The worldling seeks to raise himself and family to an equality with others, or, if possible, a superiority to them. The true follower of Christ comes down in order to elevate others.

We know hardly anything about anything.

Like most ministers, Peter was not the best judge of his own sermons. Almost invariably when he thought he had written one of his best, the rest of us did not rate it so highly. And, when on Saturday night he was bemoaning a terrible sermon, he could be pretty sure his congregation would think it terrific. How other people rated his sermons was a constant source of astonishment to him. That's what keeps me humble, he often said.

The talents of others are a reminder of our place in the universe.

We all make mistakes, some bigger than others, but none of us is perfect.

Beggars can't be choosers.

E dr?gu? s? fii important, Gracie, dar e mai important s? fii dr?gu?.

moderate your desire of producing perfection, temper your eagerness to produce faultless performance...and soften your manners towards those who are subordinate to you...

We're so arrogant, aren't we? So afraid of age, we do everything we can to prevent it. We don't realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone. Someone who doesn't drive you to commit murder or doesn't humiliate you beyond repair.

My pride had risen up and whopped me in the face. I don't lose my temper a lot, but when I do, I make a good job of it.

When I was a lad, my parents and all their equivalents never lusted after other people's riches or success.