Quotes About Humility

El que se precie de conocerse bien y de saber inmediatamente lo que es válido y lo que no lo es, nunca podrá anotarse grandes éxitos en el campo del autoconocimiento. El que, por el contrario, parte de la idea de que cualquier animal de la calle lo conoce mejor de lo que él se conoce, va por buen camino.

It doesn't matter, sister. Too much thinking is bad for health. Now come on, let us sell a few more carrots and brinjals. This is who we are, not poets or philosophers.

May I accept upon myself the defeat / And offer to others the victory"—Chekawa

Do not speak of the defects [of others]. This states that you should never speak of others' defects—neither their worldly defects, for instance by calling them "That blind person," [70] nor their spiritual defects, for instance by calling them "That morally degenerate person.

Do not boast to anyone, ever, when you engage in the practice of your good deeds.

Instead you recognize all such tasks as obligations, so boastfulness toward others simply does not occur.

I can live a comfortable life. The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.

You wanna know how to make God laugh?" he said. "Tell him your plans." (God-shaped Hole)

Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish.

But we can never change enough to impress God. And here's the reason: trying to impress God, others, or ourselves puts us at the center of our change project. It makes change all about my looking good. It is done for my glory. And that's pretty much the definition of sin. Sin is living for my glory instead of God's.

Our sin warps our understanding because we all tend toward self-justification. Studying

He loved his family and fellow man, never raised his voice or fists, and was rewarded with a lifelong, routine digestion of small doses of humiliation.

My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!

Nobody looks good getting out of bed.

We have always been a family that's given back. We just don't make a lot of noise about it.

If you remember one thing from talking to me, remember this: I am just a girl who makes noises - and I'm incredibly lucky that people happen to like those noises.

I just want to be nominated; beggars can't be choosers.

It wouldn't kill me if I were never nominated or elected to anything.

I think anytime you get nominated for an award, it's a very humbling thing.

I've always told the truth. I think that's been part of the foundation of my career. I don't put myself above people. I don't put myself different than people. And I, for one, know that none of us is immune.

I'm a lot of things, but none of them are great.

Do not blow your own trumpets nor, which is the same thing, ask other people to blow them. No trumpeter ever rose to be a general.