Quotes About Humility

never assume that you know what's best for anyone.

give much, boast little, nurture others, and decline recognition or credit

Imagine what it would be like if you dismissed ego's hold on you. Serve others and watch how all that you give returns to you tenfold.

Rumi observed, "Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment.

When you live from the perspective of being able to say, "I don't know for certain, but I'm willing to listen," you become a person whom others identify with.

no one is special or better than anyone else. This sentiment is echoed in the Christian scriptures: "[God] sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous" (Matt. 5:45).

suspend your ego and seek an attitude of gratitude and generosity

Stay humble; don't interfere; respect your creative genius

When you have the choice to be right, or kind, choose kind.

don't seek praise or run from it.

One who understands splendor while holding to humility acts in accord with eternal power.

treat everyone, without exception, with goodness and kindness, as all of those whom we revere as spiritual masters taught us by their example.

the sage dresses plainly, even though his interior is filled with precious gems.

How can anyone be a pessimist in a world where we know so little? A heart starts beating inside a mother's womb a few weeks after conception, and it's a total mystery to everyone on our planet. In comparison to what there is to know, we are only embryos. Keep this in mind whenever you encounter those who are absolutely certain that there's only one way to do something. Resist being a pessimist.

act without being concerned for your own ego.

Be humble. Never put yourself above others or see yourself as superior to anyone.

He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.

It is possible, I think, to say that... a Christian agriculture [is] formed upon the understanding that it is sinful for people to misuse or destroy what they did not make. The Creation is a unique, irreplaceable gift, therefore to be used with humility, respect, and skill.

Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.

A farmer, as one of his farmer correspondents once wrote to Liberty Hyde Bailey, is a dispenser of the 'Mysteries of God.' The husband, unlike the manager or the would-be objective scientist, belongs inherently to the complexity and the mystery that is to be husbanded, and so the husbanding mind is both careful and humble.

We must learn to acknowledge that the creation is full of mystery; we will never entirely understand it. We must abandon arrogance and stand in awe. We must recover the sense of the majesty of creation, and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For I do not doubt that it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self it is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.

Mercy begins with a deep awareness of one's own need for it. Whereas Alinsky first sees injustice in others, the man of mercy first sees sin within himself.

A three-year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow.