Quotes About Humility

Don't be so humble, you are not that great.

Dont be so humble you're not that great

You never learn anything if you're the one talking

The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire. Imagine a world filled with individuals willing both to apologize and to accept an apology. Is there any problem that could not be solved among people who possessed the humility and largeness of spirit and soul to do either -- or both -- when needed?

Being humble means recognizing that we are not on earth to see how important we can become, but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others

Gratitude is the beginning of wisdom. Stated differently, true wisdom cannot be obtained unless it is built on a foundation of true humility and gratitude.

Gratitude is the beginning of civility, of decency and goodness, of a recognition that we cannot afford to be arrogant. We should walk with the knowledge that we will need help every step of the way.

The trouble with most of our prayers is that we give them as if we were picking up the phone and ordering groceries - we place our order and hang up.

Our membership in this Church . . . should never be any cause for self-righteousness, for arrogance, for denigration of others, for looking down upon others. All mankind is our neighbor.

Given what we have and what we know, we ought to be a better people than we are. We ought to be more Christlike, more forgiving, more helpful and considerate to all around us.

God picks the weakest, the smallest, the meanest of men on the face of the earth, and he uses them." There's

Like most people who knew themselves to be naturally favored with intelligence, his natural ego had led him unconsciously to doubt that there was much, if any, range of intellect beyond his own. But he forced himself to consider now the possibility that there might be as large a range above him as he knew to be below him—and

There never was a throne yet built so high that it could not be rocked by laughter from below.

History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.

Showing oneself eager for office was a sign of being unworthy of it, for the office-seeker probably had selfish views rather than the public good in mind.

If there is a just God, how humanity would writhe in its attempt to justify its treatment of animals.

If what are miscalled the lower animals were as silly as man is, they would all perish from the earth in a year.

Reach up (to accept blessings). Bend down (to respect humbly). Reach out (to give freely).

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. The squirrels also grew at last to be quite familiar, and occasionally stepped upon my shoe, when that was the nearest way.

What is there to be found of that gravity, humility, meekness, piety or charity requisite to so glorious a pretence?... But a perpetual eructation there is of humane passions, a vain ostentation of mistaken learning, and a causeless picking of controversie.

To err is human To purr feline.

Don't laugh at the coffee. Some day you, too, may be old and weak.

Be humble, for you are made of dung. Be noble, for you are made of stars.

Whoever needs milk, bows to the animal.