Quotes About Humility

Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.

The more conceited members of the race think in terms of an endless ascent—or promotion ad infinitum. I would point out that, sooner or later, man must reach his level of life-incompetence.

The thing most feared in secret always happens… All it needs is a little courage. The more the pain grows clear and definite, the more the instinct for life asserts itself and the thought of suicide recedes. It seemed easy when I thought of it. Weak women have done it. It needs humility not pride. I am sickened by all this. Not words. Action. I shall write no more.

Eventually we must give up trying to be something special.

nyingje, which literally means "noble heart.

Education requires both a teacher and a student. Many of us are too often reluctant to be a student.

Humility is not just something we develop so we can claim to be more spiritual. It also allows you to see your actions more clearly.

Always be the worst guy in every band you are in.

Instead of feeling like you are the computer genius, descending from computer heaven to save your poor customer from purgatory, turn the tables around. If you're, for example, working in the insurance industry, think of your customer as a subject matter expert in insurance from which you have to learn in order to get your job done.

Forgive me…for everything…I have done…A - a wiser father…may have done differently. I am not…wise.

If there were an international butt competition, Eric would win, hands down—or cheeks up.

It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher, wider, and rarer joys than theirs.

Shepherds, did they but know it, walk through greater halls than kings.

He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.

The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the least so.

Greater cane does not make greater humans. (Une plus grande canne - N'agrandit l'homme.)

We want the qualities of fools that our faults devour, then us. (Nous voulons qualités des fous - Que nos défauts dévorent, puis nous.) [Fables1, The Cheetah / Le Guépard]

I ate umble pie with an appetite.

I'm a very umble person.

There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts.

May you have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.