Quotes About Humility

It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.

Aprenderás el desprecio ante la pequeñez de los poderosos, conocerás el respeto ante la grandeza de los pequeños.

It's humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.

People that put themselves above others will fall longer and harder.

Lord, my hands were made for blessing, but not my feet!

El infinito no me aterroriza; me disgusta y me ofende. Para sufrir la humillación de mi pequeñez bastaba la tierra.

Por ahora, sólo nuestras palabras son propias de titantes, pero nuestras obras son de hormigas y topos. Incluso las termitas nos pueden dar lecciones de grandeza. El hombre moderno, a pesar de su jactancia, piensa como Gulliver y no se da cuenta que vive al nivel de Liliput.

O mundo, que está cheio de orgulhosos, também está cheio de admiradores. O mistério dissipa-se, quando se descobre que a admiração é a maneira mais nobre e pudica de afirmar a superioridade daquele que admira.

When God gives you an inch, don't take a mile.

even if we returned to the dirt and the wind and the rain like the plants and the animals, we had a bigness in us. Something beyond algorithms and beyond Upgrades-- something we were proud to call human. Or so it seemed to me.

In church I feel very close to the publican of the parable.

O Lord and Master of my life, Take from me the spirit of sloth, despair, lust of power, and idle talk, But grant rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience, and love to your servant. Yes, O Lord and King, grant me to see my own faults, and not to judge my brother and my sister, For You are blessed unto ages of ages. Amen.

What IS this place? I have arrhythmia. My arms are prickling. I thought I was so smart. I was going to save the show. But there IS no show! Spider-Man the Musical was never Spider-Man the Musical. I see that now. It's always been nothing more than a diabolical machine built by the gods to teach humility. And I'm trapped in the dead center of its workings .

There was some nobility in being poor, but absolutely none in being poor because you were an idiot.

You're making yourself too important. Guilt comes from feeling we're at the center of the universe. We're not.

Don't fight the weak if you can't fight God.

Big people monopolize the listening. Small people monopolize the talking. Proverbs 29:20 "Seest thou a man that has hasty in his words? There is more hope of a fool than him".

He who does not think too much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable.

We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.

Believe me, dearest, what men call intelligent Often is pedantry and self-conceit.

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

Don't be humble . . . you're not that great.

Don't be humble. Your not that great.