Quotes About Humility

However baby man may brag of his science and skill . . . ," Melville writes in Moby-Dick, "yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make.

No true hero ever believes that they are one.

Yesterday you were gods. Today you are mortal. Your death is my gift to you. Accept it with grace and humility.

a true leader never puts his ego ahead of his assets.

The best we can hope for is to be humble in our arrogance.

No matter how smart we think we are, we simply can't know all there is to now-and if you spend all your time thinking about those things, it will drive you crazy.

Important work often loses the spotlight to self-important people.

Maybe it's the best answer of all. If more people could admit they really don't know, maybe there never would have been a War.

She stayed with the Toll because deep down, she believed that Greyson Tolliver was the real thing. That he was divinely moved by the Tone, and that his humility about it was understandable. A humble nature was, after all, the hallmark of a true holy man. It made perfect sense that he would refuse to believe he was part of the Holy Triad, but just because he didn't believe it himself, didn't make it any less true.

Era adrede; les recordaba que, aunque tuvieran los puestos humanos más importantes del mundo, nunca debían sentirse demasiado cómodos ni dormirse en los laureles.

you're far from the greatest mind on Earth.

You will take no more than you need, and waste nothing. People will attempt to buy your friendship. They will lavish things upon you. Accept nothing but the barest of human necessities.

Marie, if we were judged by the things we most regret, no human being would be worthy to sweep the floor.

Dismiss perfection as an ache of the greedy, but do not give in to the mass modesty of easy imperfection.

Then after all this reverse the procedure. Have a good love affair. And the thing you might learn is that nobody knows anything— not the State, nor the mice the garden hose or the North Star. And if you ever catch me teaching a creative writing class and you read this back to me I'll give you a straight A right up the pickle barrel.

I was a janitor for a while but I can never imagine a man calling himself a Floor Engineer when he has to walk into the woman's crapper and clean up what they leave behind. I couldn't get a hard-on for a year after working in that place. what they leave behind. and on the floor. and in that little compartment behind the seat. or alongside of it. or wherever it was.

I finally got dressed. I went to the bathroom and threw some water on my face, combed my hair. If I could only comb that face, I thought, but I can't.

Jos et keksi mitä tekisit, niin ole kiltisti. (Auringonvalo, tässä olen, s. 217)

so I let them have their little victories which they need far more than I do.

he had outwitted me: praise was the only thing I couldn't handle

I don't deserve what you have and I want to keep it that way.

Sólo un zoquete tiene bolsas llenas de consejos y respuestas a todas las preguntas.

Being condescending, rude, or insulting says more about you than your intended target. Your words boomerang right back at you--and you're the one who looks like a fool.

Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.