Quotes About Humility

Yoga teachers must be willing to step down from this imagined pedestal and utter the words "I don't know" on a regular basis.

When you decide to hit rock bottom, humiliation is part of the deal.

if you are humble, you are capable of learning – and the capacity to learn is the capacity to improve.

The players who go through La Masía are taught to behave with civility and humility. The theory being that, not only is it pleasant to be unassuming, but also if you are humble, you are capable of learning – and the capacity to learn is the capacity to improve. If you aren't capable of learning you won't improve.

At the same time, he was humble enough to recognise that he wasn't sufficiently trained in certain areas, mostly defensive work.

Si quieres hacer reír a Dios, cuéntale tus planes». La calle enseña que no es Dios quien se ríe, sino el Diablo.

My garden is a place of commitment and neglect, of arrogance and humility. It is a place of taking stock and of deep silence—a place of contemplation. And so for me over time it has become a place of grace.

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

Even kings and emperors, with mountains of property and oceans of wealth - these are not even equal to an ant, who does not forget God.

Your Mercy is my social status.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

In a complicated, fast-changing world the intelligent path is to let go of being a Knower and embrace being a Learner.

It was, Jelena though, another kind of arrogance to believe you could understand the way the world was made. It could not be done, there was too much. You needed to be open to it, though, to what your life gave you and demanded.

While we're living, we need to get over ourselves and accept others if we want to enchant people.

Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: "Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are." —Halford E. Luccock

Everyone is better than you at something. If you have a tough time accepting others, it's probably because you think you're superior to them. However, you're not superior to every person in every way.

I've learned... . That being kind is more important than being right.

Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.

When you're lost, admit it, and ask for directions.

I've learned... . That being kind is more important than being right.

As I say, I rather pride myself on this little expertise and even today my veterinary colleagues have been known to remark: "Old Herriot may be limited in many respects but by God he can wrap a cat." As

First job I had to do was pass the stomach tube on a horse. Got it into the trachea instead of the oesophagus. Couple of quick pumps and down went the horse with a hell of a crash—dead as a hammer. That's when I started these grey hairs.

Production masters material; service submits to it.

We can never know everything. Part of what we know is always wrong. Perhaps the most important part. A part of wisdom lies in knowing that. A part of knowledge lies in going on anyway.