Quotes About Humility

For me, walking in a hard Dakota wind can be like staring at the ocean: humbled before its immensity, I also have a sense of being at home on this planet, my blood so like the sea in chemical composition, my every cell partaking of air. I live about as far from the sea as is possible in North America, yet I walk in a turbulent ocean. Maybe that child was right when he told me that the world is upside-down here, and this is where angels drown.

When it comes to the nitty-gritty, what ties these threads of biblical narrative together into a revelation of God's love is that God has commanded us to refrain from grumbling about the dailiness of life. Instead we are meant to accept it as a reality that humbles us even as it gives cause for praise. The rhythm of sunrise and sunset marks a passage of time that marks each day rich with the possibility of salvation.

To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference. While consumer culture speaks only to preferences, treating even whims as needs to be granted (and the sooner the better), monastics sense that this pandering to delusions of self-importance weakens the true self, and diminishes our ability to distinguish desires from needs. It's a price they're not willing to pay.

To find one's special quality One must lead a life of deep humility. To serve in this way Never question but obey Is the blessing of St Aggie's charity. - The owls of St. Aegolius

If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself you should say: "He obviously does not know me very well, since there are so many other faults he could have mentioned." —Epictetus

What were she and Maxwell talking about at this moment? "I owe you an apology." Archer came to stand beside him, also looking over the garden. "I shouldn't have said what I did. It was very low of me." Grey shrugged. "You've said worse." "True, but those times I was right." He laughed. "I'm not so sure you're not right now as well.

The beauty about the D-list is that people who are on it probably don't know they are.

Even in shabbiness there was room for pride.

Don't try to save the whole galaxy yourself. Believe me, it doesn't work." -Luke Skywalker

His grace to overlook my silliness in thinking that I knew what to do and bless me with what He knew was best anyway. He promised that His grace was sufficient, that His grace would be enough...

It is the way of women to keep us humble, is it not?

Are you going to last if I start nibbling at your ankles and work my way up?" "No. You might make it to my knee, but only if I think about starving children and venereal warts.

All this time, and you're…still such idiots.

I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation. And my conversation with God is very open-ended. I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world.

We should never, ever believe life- or history- holds no surprises for us. That way lies arrogance. And arrogance can blind us to the truth . . . Any truth. All truth.

I could wake her up and ask have you ever been to the ocean? but I already know that answer. She has not. You can tell. It would humble you I whisper to her sleeping if you for one time stood by something stronger than yourself.

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

Nh?ng ch? c?n ???c ? g?n nh?ng th? cao sang nh? v?y thôi c?ng h?nh phúc r?i. Vi?c m?u c?u danh ti?ng s? phá h?ng s? kính tr?ng c?a ng??i khác dành cho mình.

Knowledge can be superior; Questions require humility. Knowledge

was reminded of what Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: "Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him." Everyone had something to teach him. This focus on people was the reason so

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: "Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson dijo una vez: «Todo hombre que conozco es superior a mí en algún aspecto. En ese aspecto, aprendo de él.»

The future is dynamic and not fully in your control. Celebrate that fact instead of fighting it, and life gets a lot more interesting. Keep your eyes open, be humble and generous, and save time and attention for the spontaneous, the quirky, and the left field.

The beginning of wisdom is the statement 'I do not know'. The person who cannot make that statement is one who will never learn anything.