Quotes About Humility

Only God is perfect. For the rest of us, there are apologies.

Humble people were unsettling at best. All that lack of backbone. It was just creepy. Like talking to linguine.

What's the difference between God and a federal judge?" "I don't know." "God doesn't think he's a federal judge." Tara

There's more than one thing I can't do and there are a lot more things than that that you can't do or you wouldn't be in the newspaper business. You'd be a jockey and a scholar and a connoisseur of femininity like I am

Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

It's always nice when you do something and it's well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously.

People who quoted other people were showoffs, plain and simple.

She] was a true light upon a hill. She was a person of humility, affability, compassion and on whose tongue was the law of kindness. Her ear was open to the complaints of the afflicted, and her hand was open for the supply of the needy. If others were so unhappy as to divide into parties and to burn with contention, yet she remained a common friend to all. She was...ready to minister to them to the utmost of her power.

There are two good reasons for being nice to the underdogs in this life. One, because if the underdog grows up to be the kind of person that starts shooting, you'll have a chance at survival. Two, because it's the right thing to do the third reason being that the wheel of fortune is always spinning, spinning. And just because you're at the top today doesn't mean it'll always be so. When you're at the bottom, you'll want someone to be there for you too.

There are two good reasons for being nice to the underdogs in this life. One, because if the underdog grows up to be the kind of person that starts shooting, you'll have a chance at survival. Two, because it's the right thing to do. (42)

the third reason [for being nice to the underdogs in life] being that the wheel of fortune is always spinning, spinning. And just because you're at the top today doesn't mean it'll always be so. When you're at the bottom, you'll want someone to be there for you too.

Being humble, I think, is one of the most underrated character traits around.

You will love the ocean. It makes you feel so... I don't know. Small, but not in a bad way. Small because you realize you're part of something bigger.

She pulled into a parking space on the side of the road, put her hand to her chest, and sat for a bit. Then she said that the man already knew he was the one in the wrong, and being wrong had embarrassed him. Since he didn't like feeling that way, he unloaded his bad feelings onto her. "Huh?" we'd said. "Yes, that man acted ugly," she told us in plain English. "But throwing more ugliness back at him ain't the answer.

I'm always right. Except when I'm not.

he lowered his breeches and eased himself into the seat, the sailor had to void himself in full view of anyone who cared to watch

The true Sufi cannot utter any prayer beginning with the word 'I,' for example: 'I want to know Thee better.' For to do this presupposes that there are two beings: the Sufi and Allah. This is the greatest sin. Iblis cried, 'Ana khayrun minhu! (I am better than he is!') The personal pronoun 'I' is the classic Sufi symbol for pride in its extreme form.

It is best to live in a state of perplexity and fluidity, like water, than to live in a hardened and doctrinal state of believing one knows everything.

This is because Spirit is as much the Irrational as it is the Rational. Academicians need to show some humility in the face of what will always be Irrational. They only see half the picture.

Some misguided scientists and professors of academe possess a kind of arrogance. By misguided we mean those who are content with the extent of their formal knowledge without being characterized by its inner meaning. There is often a lack of humility in science and academia. To them, their intellectual-linear paradigms are the one true way to perceive reality.

Dive right into the Heart of Blame and leave your titles, your imagined "position" in the tekke, your sense of being "special," and other subtle ways that try to communicate to people that you are 'spiritual'.

I'd go to his classes so that I'd be able to speak his language, the language of science. When he took the podium, he always began by saying, "Fellow students…" He taught me the humility of knowing that we were all, always, students, and that to stop being a student was to stop living. When

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself, he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.