Quotes About Humility

Sometimes even the most highborn must swab out their own toilets.

As I said sir, no one is perfect. Apart from google of course.

Because knowledge is not for showing off. If I do good work, people should notice me.

Life is tough when you are always talking to people smarter than you.

Why doesn't th' feller who sayz 'I'm no speechmaker,' let it go at that instead o' givin' a demonstration?

We shall advance when we have learned humility; when we have learned to seek truth, to reveal it and publish it; when we care more for that than for the privilege of arguing about ideas in a fog of uncertainty.

...for Pride that dines on Vanity sups on Contempt...

Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint.

Some folks wear their halos much too tight.

Wink at wee faults, your ain are meikle.

Every man is a damn fool at least ten minutes a day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings.

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be insufferable.

There is nothing to be afraid of if you believe and know that the cause for which you stand is right. You are ready to face anything and you face it with a humble smile on your face, because you know that all of eternity stands with you and the angels stand beside you and you know you are right.

Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve. You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

Confucius say: Man who put face in bowl get punch in nose.

They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me, a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

No man stands so straight as one who stoops to help a child.

Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

No one but an aviator has a right to look down on others.

Be kind to everyone on the way up; you'll meet the same people on the way down.

If you try to come off as this big-time star with an attitude, people don't like that.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

As to the sea itself, love it you cannot. Why should you? I will never believe again the sea was ever loved by anyone whose life was married to it. It is the creation of Omnipotence, which is not of humankind and understandable, and so the springs of its behavior are hidden.