Quotes About Humility

Do I clap along with them? No. By applauding I would be saying: Hell, Reilhan, it wasn't that important, it was just good fun. I would be saying: You only beat a part of me, and the rest, what does it care, it applauds you. But Reilhan has beaten all of me. He who applauds his victor denies that, and belittles him. Being a good loser is a despicable evasion, an insult to the sporting spirit. All good losers should be barred from practicing a sport.

Pride is a dangerous indulgence. -Temple Master Lha-Mi

If I have any advice for you, it comes down to this: never imagine you know more than you do. Because the truth is, you almost certainly know less than you think.

We all know what a snooze perfection can be.

Abba Macarius said, 'If you rebuke someone and do it with anger, you have allowed a passion to control you. You have not saved anyone and have destroyed yourself'.

Abba Marcius said, 'If you rebuke someone and do it with anger, you have allowed a passion to control you. You have not saved anyone and have destroyed yourself'.

The Vietnamese have a saying that you can't use a basket to cover a lion or an elephant.

It scares them because of the forced intimacy with a place that gives nothing back to a stranger, a place where the land and its weather—probably the most violent and extreme on earth—demand only one thing: humility.

If you let pride stop you, you will hate life

We are simultaneously gods and worms."—Abraham Maslow

Lo primero que se me viene a la cabeza es la "humildad".

Porque tienes que ser humilde, y tienes que dejarte enseñar…

hay una forma mejor de hacer las cosas. Eso se debe a una falta de humildad…

7. «Si quieres mejorar, debe satisfacerte que te consideren necio y estúpido.» — Epicteto

The worst thing you can ever do is think that you know enough.

Franklin saw the constant benefit in making other people look good and letting them take credit for your ideas.

When you are just starting out, we can be sure of a few fundamental realities: 1) You're not nearly as good or as important as you think you are; 2) you have an attitude that needs to be readjusted; 3) most of what you think you know or most of what you learned in books or in school is out of date or wrong.

The lesson: Rather than striving to be superhuman, I would aspire to be less "super" and more "human.

Cuando empiezas en algo podemos estar seguros de varias realidades fundamentales: 1) No eres ni de cerca tan bueno ni tan importante como crees; 2) Tienes una actitud que debes reajustar; 3) La mayoría de lo que crees que sabes o la mayoría de lo que aprendiste en los libros o en las aulas está obsoleto o equivocado.

The truth I have discovered after working with incredible athletes, leaders, and individuals from across the globe is that our humanity is expressed most fully in our treatment of others—when we are respectful, humble, caring, honest, and grateful despite our struggles, disappointments, and failures. It represents the heart and soul of who we are at our best.

Los libros no están para mostrar lo inteligente y cultivado que eres.

Stay humble or get humbled.

when I speak with anyone about anything, I try to hold their perspective with a "light grip": the knowledge that they, and I, have very incomplete maps of reality.

no tienes paciencia para leer algo, no tengas la arrogancia de comentarlo.»