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Quotes About Humility

We are people, and my plea is Let me be a someone, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Lord... We are people, and my plea is Let me be a someone, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Lord thanks for this beautiful life, and forgive me if sometimes it seems as if I don't love it enough. Amen
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
I don't believe in karma, but I believe there are things that can happen that force you to understand what an asshole you were.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Asking for forgiveness is humiliating and doesn't fix anything. The solution is not to ask for forgiveness, but to avoid the outbursts that make excuses mandatory.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
To be a simple nothing and an ordinary nobody. Is the greatest thing you can be.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
I want a simple, ordinary life. "It's as simple as that.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Life...... Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth, overcoming your pride and opening your mind beyond what is comfortable.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Every person is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
I am not proud, but I am happy. Because I'm here now stronger than yesterday, and humble enough to accept what I am not.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Simply be you, be a simple nothing and an ordinary nobody. Its the greatest thing you can be.....YOU
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Be honest-Be humble. And always listen more than you talk.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
The rarest thing in the world is, in knowing you know nothing.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
It is better to lose your pride with someone you love, rather than to lose that someone you love because of your foolish pride.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
As the child once fantasized that its wishes governed the world, and the youth fantasized that heroism could manage to do it all, so the person in the second half of life is obliged to come to a more sober wisdom based on a humbled sense of personal limitations and the inscrutability of the world.
~ James Hollis
To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
~ James Joyce
His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost.
~ James Joyce
We are right, he said, and the others are wrong. To speak of these things and to try to understand their nature and, having understood it, to try slowly and humbly and constantly to express, to press out again, from the gross earth or what it brings forth, from sound and shape and colour which are the prison gates of our soul, an image of the beauty we have come to understand- that is art.
~ James Joyce
The cheers died away in the soft grey air. He was alone. He was happy and free; but he would not be anyway proud with Father Dolan. He would be very quiet and obedient: and he wished that he could do something kind for him to show him that he was not proud.
~ James Joyce
Hump for humbleness, dump for dirts.
~ James Joyce
A healthy skepticism is good, even God-given. However, a need to cynically dismiss anything we cannot personally verify is arrogance. God
~ James L. Garlow
We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others.
~ James Lee Burke
As I was to learn, patience and latitude and even humility are, paradoxically, the handmaidens of wealth, because virtue is costly only for those who own nothing else.
~ James Lee Burke
The boos always come from the cheap seats. We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others
~ James Lee Burke