Quotes About Humility

The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.

You're an idiot." "I've never claimed to be otherwise.

I feel it is just within the bounds of possibility that the wheels of your life don't travel so quickly round as those of the humble writer of these lines.

I feel it is just within the bounds of possibility that the wheels of your life don't travel so quickly round as those of the humble writer of these lines

Do not boast so proudly, or let arrogant words come out of your mouth, for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and actions are weighed by Him.

Even if God had created us, He would never have admitted it.

It is said that to know you do not know is the beginning of wisdom. But that does not mean that to not know is the end of wisdom.

A servant with this clauseMakes drudgery divine:Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws,Makes that and th' action fine.

When once your foot enters the church, be bare. God is more there, than thou: for thou art there Only by his permission. Then beware, And make thyself all reverence and fear. Kneeling ne'er spoil'd silk stocking: quit thy state All equal are within the church's gate.

Kneeling ne'er spoil'd silk stocking: quit thy state. All equal are within the church's gate.

I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.

You are two vagabonds, you are two tramps,' and out he comes and beats us, and calls us hard names, and rolls us in the mud and snow, and goes in, fastening the door behind him. Then if we get up and go on in great content, glad to suffer hardships, remembering how our Master suffered for our sake, that, Brother Leo, would be the perfect joy.

To be a learner, you've got to be willing to be a fool.

Sometimes you must let go of your pride and do what is asked of us. Anakin Skywalker, Episode 2: Attack of the Clones

El modesto se embriaga mucho antes cuando prueba la vanidad.

It was when I saw these places in the 1980s that I felt called to do something about it. Seeing the stumps in the peat and the remnant trees, I asked myself: what's the message in the land? What's the story it's telling us? My question was: "What's Nature seeking to do here?" That is crucially different from the ethos of human domination. Rewilding is about humility, about stepping back.

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Lord Tywin Lannister did not, in the end, shit gold.

We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.

And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all.

Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him.

Tyrion shrugged. "We all need to be mocked from time to time Lord Mormont lest we start to take ourselves too seriously.