Quotes About Humility

Mightier than a sword Eager to bless those around her Radiant, a Light for the world Eternally loving and loved Devoted to the end, she Illuminated my life Thankful, humble, true Hopeful till the end...

For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you (Rom. 12:3). Paul's

Dan Milstein, one of the principal engineers at Hubspot, writes that he begins all blameless post-mortem meetings by saying, "We're trying to prepare for a future where we're as stupid as we are today." In other words, it is not acceptable to have a countermeasure to merely "be more careful" or "be less stupid"— instead, we must design real countermeasures to prevent these errors from happening again.

Lean principles focus on how to create value for the customer through systems thinking by creating constancy of purpose, embracing scientific thinking, creating flow and pull (versus push), assuring quality at the source, leading with humility, and respecting every individual.

By cutting off pride and arrogance, He has acquired such a glorious body.

The world has no place for those who are proud.

Arrogant and right is surely better than humble and wrong.

He told me to forget every good deed as though it had never occurred, as soon as it was accomplished, and go forward again as though I had never accomplished anything for Him, lest my good works become a snare to me. We saw some wonderful things in those days. Even very good men came to abhor themselves in the clearer light of God.

Curteis he was, lowely, and servysable,And carf biforn his fader at the table.

God didn't give Moses ten fortune cookies in a to-go box. God didn't lead the Israelites through the wilderness with a neon all-you-can-eat sign. And God doesn't speak to people in bathrooms, public or otherwise.

Indeed if they ever once saw the endless supply of eternal opportunities The Adversary offers them every temporal moment of day after day of their fuddled little lives, they would stagger at the sheer industry and prodigality of His efforts. Conversely, if they ever gained a glimpse of how their ordinary actions actually effect and shape things not only under time but without, the very vast weight of that would almost certainly end in their becoming humble.

Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride.

A man has virtues enough if, on account of them, he deserves forgiveness for his faults.

Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.

What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which offers no reprisal, became goodness; craven baseness became humility; submission to him who was feared became obedience; inability to assert ones self became reluctance to assert ones self, became forgiveness, love of ones enemies. Misery became a distinction

Those who have tried meekness know the importance of being important.

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.

A good groom will rather stroke than strike.

The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth — beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals — would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius.

You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.