Quotes About Humility

but his monumental pride prevented him from recognizing in the man any virtues beyond those that marked him as a good peon.

Crecí en su escuela estoica: evitar toda ostentación y despilfarro, no quejarse, aguantar, cumplir, no pedir ni esperar nada, valerse sola, ayudar y servir a otros sin hacer alarde.

Si esprimeva con un tono di tale superiorità che mi tornò in mente l'opinione del maestro Juan Ribero, secondo il quale la vanagloria è prerogativa degli ignoranti; il saggio è umile perché sa di sapere poco.

Las miserias de la enfermedad nos igualan, no hay ricos ni pobres, al cruzar este umbral los privilegios se hacen humo y nos volvemos humildes. Mi

Con humildad duele menos la humillación cotidiana de depender. Sin embargo, la invalidez del cuerpo me trajo un inesperado regalo: me dio una inmensa libertad de la mente.

The first thing we offer a visitor is a tecito, an agüita, or a vinito, a "nice little drink" of tea, water, or wine. We always add the diminutive -ito to our words, almost as an apology for offering, in accord with our desire not to be noticed and our horror of putting on airs, even with words.

That is what I am attempting in my stumbling spiritual practice: to rid myself of the negative feelings that prevent walking with assurance. I want to transform rage into creative energy and guilt into a mocking acceptance of my faults; I want to sweep away arrogance and vanity.

Mientras más aprendas, más pronto sabrás cuán poco sabes.

Eso de examinar cada acción pasada y presente y de andar flagelándote es una perversión, un pecado de soberbia.

Manda tu superego al carajo, hombre. Eso de examinar cada acción pasada y presente y de andar flagelándote es una perversión, un pecado de soberbia. No eres tan importante.

There are a lot of good people in the world but they keep quiet about it, it's bad ones that make noise a lot if noise and they get noticed.

Había aceptado que sabía muy poco y controlaba mucho menos, pero esa incertidumbre ya no lo asustaba.

People in New Zealand go out of their way to not be impressed by things.

New Zealand is such a down-to-earth place.

New Zealand has this funny attitude towards celebrities where we're not so impressed. We are secretly impressed, but we never want to show it, so we're not sycophantic about it.

I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'

I was very humbled by the 'one-man Led Zeppelin' comparisons.

Everyone knows who Bonzo is - you can just go pick up those books and read these fisherman's-tale stories. But at home he was a regular dad who would ground me and embarrass me in front of my friends. He was in Led Zeppelin and he would still embarrass me!

I have zero ego.

When you're 47 years old and playing at a world-class level in the fastest sport, and you have zero percent body fat, you need to be brought down a peg as often as possible.

No one is perfect. Your ERA is not zero. You're not going to have 30 wins. And your batting average isn't going to be 1.000. So you don't have the right to verbally talk out about somebody. Look at yourself. Did you do everything you could do? Did you start your day off right? Are you perfect?

I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.

The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved.

Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.