Quotes About Humility

It don't take a lot to make me happy. I'm not spoiled like that.

I was probably spoilt, if I'm being totally honest.

I try to ensure my daughters are not spoilt. They are very aware of how lucky they are and appreciate it. We have had some lean years, so they know it's not all about luxury, travel, and hotels. They are grounded, and I'm grateful for that.

If you can't take a good kicking, you shouldn't parade how much luckier you are than other people.

it is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck.

I want to see your tailpipe fading off into the sunset." Good luck, I thought. My tailpipe was somewhere on Route 1, along with my muffler.

It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough, and you must be very tactful with Gods or the gods.

Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.

Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell.

The man who boasts he never made a mistake is often married to the woman who did.

If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he thinks you to be.

Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.

The west need someone to tell the man who walks around with the biggest stick in the world, that that stick can't bring down God's house.

In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.

A man learns all his life, and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

People often tell me I could be a great man. I'd rather be a good man.

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

The more a man knows, the less he talks.

By silence, I hear other men's imperfections and conceal my own.

In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.

The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.