Quotes About Humility

He understood in that moment that he was smaller than he had ever known, and the realm of the unknowable was bigger.

Don't be such a human

an apostrophe humbled to a comma.

Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.

Even when you do not feel big hearted, you can give yourself permission to act that way.

I conceive disgust at those impertinent and misbecoming familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dead man must take upon himself to be lecturing me with his odious truism, that "such as he now is, I must shortly be." Not so shortly, friend, perhaps, as thou imaginest. In the meantime I am alive. I move about. I am worth twenty of thee. Know thy betters!

For it is through humility, he knew, that holiness--and poetry--find entrance to the human soul.

Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am weak; remember, Lord, how short my time is; remember that I am but flesh, a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. My days are as grass, as a flower of the field; for the wind goeth over me, and I am gone, and my place shall know me no more.

Haven't you ever heard that modesty is an attractive trait?" "Only from ugly people," Jace confided. "The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me." He winked at the girls, who giggled and hid behind their hair.

Don't sulk. For someone with all the grace and coordination of a pregnant wildebeest, you did great.

Get off your high horse and get yourself grounded! Know what it is like to have your world turned upside down! Your becoming a good therapist is not about putting yourself apart from the people you work with; it is about coming to know intimately their pain, their humiliation, and their ability to rise above it.

Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

We are all unworthy of a good woman's love," I answered. "But, thank Heaven, the good women don't seem to realise it.

Smart is overrated. Most of the harm done in this world is done by people who fancy themselves smart. And they are—book smart. But most really smart people have no sense. They value their brains too highly. I'd rather have someone with sense. And a little heart.

not how it works. People with really good self-worth think they're the same size as everybody else, and they never make anybody else feel small. Any time somebody tries to act like they're more than you are, deep down they're afraid they're less.

She still didn't like the idea. But she wouldn't question me again. She placed the judgment of her humans ahead of her own, as a matter of courtesy and pride, even if she was always right and we were always wrong. Good dogs are like that.

She placed the judgment of her humans ahead of her own, as a matter of courtesy and pride, even if she was always right and we were always wrong. Good dogs are like that.

As long as you think you know everything, nothing changes.

How can it be good to know nothing?" "It's not. But if you know nothing, it's good to know that you know nothing." "Oh," Grace said. "Yeah, I guess." "Because as long as you think you know everything, nothing changes.

Most people say it makes them feel smaller. Like the world is so big, it makes

I find it touching, almost enviable, that a person with so little feels she has all she needs.

The wilderness just has this way of reminding you that you're powerless. And that what you want doesn't matter. We always think we're so smart and strong, but nature always gets the last laugh.

People with really good self-worth think they're the same size as everybody else, and they never make anybody else feel small. Any time somebody tries to act like they're more than you are, deep down they're afraid they're less. Otherwise they'd have nothing to prove.

Did I not come to you on my knees with a kingdom in my hand?