Quotes About Humility

The man who gets on his knees has not learned the right use of his legs.

Some knees bend only under the load of a heavy heart; some eyes are opened only after the head is bowed.

I glanced at the business card before tucking it away: Deyan Dembeliev, telephone… Just a name and a phone number. Only extremely famous or extremely modest people could use such cards. Demby was not the latter.

The true beggar is the true king.

If God were to hold all Truth concealed in his right hand, and in his left only the steady and diligent drive for Truth, albeit with the proviso that I would always and forever err in the process, and to offer me the choice, I would with all humility take the left hand.

Lissy always thought she knew everything.

There is no shame in ignorance, only in denying it. By knowing what we do not know, we can take steps to remedy our lack of knowledge

God's justice transcends human frailty, and our duty is to await his answers. Rather than assume the right to determine the laws of God's created order (Crenshaw calls this "Titanism"), we must humbly submit to God's greater wisdom.

In the society of would-be-gods, a humble man is always polite.

Perfection is my willingness to be less than perfect

The For Dummies title refers to the humility required in approaching Tolkien's complex myth, not to the level of insight herein.

Start with humility. It's an ingredient in all loving communities.

You say science is about admitting what we don't know," she said.

I was just an average bloke. It was the media that tried to transform me into a heroic figure. But I've learned through the years, as long as you don't believe all that rubbish about yourself, you can't come to too much harm.' - Sir Edmund Hillary

When youu take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.

When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.

He was a man who understood the virtue of small things.

Here is what we seek: a compassion that can stand in awe at what the poor have to carry rather than stand in judgment at how they carry it.

God can get tiny, if we're not careful.

Christ's incarnation challenges us to give up our rights in order to love God and others. Philippians 2:6-7 says, "who though he existed in the form of God did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped, but emptied himself..." Christ did not hold onto his rights and privileges as deity but relinquished them in order to better love God and others.

Christ's incarnation challenges us to be servants of God and others. In Philippians 2:7, Paul said Christ "emptied himself by taking on the form of a slave, by looking like other men, and by sharing in human nature." A slave or servant is consumed with the desires of those he serves. Likewise, instead of living for himself and his comfort, Christ sought to sacrificially serve God and others with his life.

one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.

Es mejor estar callado y parecer tonto, que hablar y despejar las dudas definitivamente.

Mature human do not denigrate (defame) or cherist (praise) an idea in order to feed personal worthwhile.