Quotes About Humility

I was not in the race to become a chief minister. I had never thought about it.

I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.

I don't say I was the first, because, who knows, maybe there was a guy out in Minnesota doing it before me.

To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'

I've been there; I've been in the minority before. It humbles the exalted. But that's all right.

It's not me to toot my horn. The minute you toot your horn, it seems like society will try and disconnect your battery. And if you do not toot your horn, they'll try their darnedest to give you a horn to toot, or say that you should have a horn.

The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.

In fashion, the minute you say, 'I am successful,' is the minute you are going down.

The idea is that we try our best to protect life, knowing that we cannot be perfect. If we're doing our best, that's good enough.

There's no feeling of superiority, of inferiority, or even of equality.

We don't use our energy for the practice of transforming our afflictions and helping to relieve suffering in others and ourselves. One day, we'll be lying down on the bed, and even if we want nothing more than just to stand up and take one step, we won't be able to do it. That's why we must see right in the present moment that, having a body, surely we will get sick one day. Seeing this, naturally we will drop our arrogance about our good health.

to practice equanimity in the face of harsh words; (2) to learn not to feel annoyance, bitterness, or dejection; and (3) not to feel elated when praised, because we know that any praise is not for us as an individual, but for many beings, including our parents, teachers, friends, and all forms of life.

Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail...

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

Don't for God's sake speak as saint to sinner, but as you yourself to me myself - poor me!

And from a quiet modesty that would have become a vestal, which seemed continually to impress upon him that he had no great claim on the world's room, Oak walked unassumingly and with a faintly perceptible bend, yet distinct from a bowing of the shoulders.

Es una suerte poder desdeñar a alguien cuando la mayoría de nosotras se contenta con decir «¡Gracias!». Es como si lo oyera: «No, señor… valgo más que usted» o «Béseme los pies; mi cara es sólo para bocas importantes».

Es preciso aclarar que este tipo de jarra, por razones inciertas, recibe en Weatherbury y en sus inmediaciones el nombre de Dios-me-perdone, acaso porque su tamaño hace que cualquier bebedor se avergüence de si mismo al ver el Fondo tras haberla vaciado

I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance — that there are a great many people in the world who are just as clever as you are.

If I had read as much as other men had, I would have known as little.

it is incident most to them that are conscious of the fewest abilities in themselves who are forced to keep themselves in their own favor by observing the imperfections of other men. And therefore much laughter at the defects of others is a sign of pusillanimity. For of great minds, one of the proper works is to help and free others from scorn, and compare themselves only with the most able.

Me, me, me is dull, dull, dull.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.