Quotes About Humility

Niobe would have been called most blessed of mothers, had she not seemed so herself.

My mother told me, 'Always do your best, ' and my dad says, 'It's important to be humble. That's the key. They're not there for you. You're there for them.'

We are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck, in the middle of nowhere.

You must always strive to be the best, but you must never believe that you are.

It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.

We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe.

Humility is the light of understanding.

Only through service and sacrifice can you become great.

I shouldn't toot my own horn, but he who doth not toot his own horn alloweth it to remain untooteth.

We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed.

[The Master] doesn't glitter like a jewel... [but is] as rugged and common as a stone.

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

Don't let your pride or a lack of courage stand in the way of saying you're sorry to people you may have offended.

You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

In judging others a man laboreth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and examining himself he always laboreth to good purpose.

Someone once said "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgements."

I would be a disaster as a prime minister.

Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.

No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is.