Quotes About Humility

You don't have to show people how successful you are.

There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

To keep your marriage brimming with love in the cup, whenever you're wrong admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.

One of the graces of this world is that there is always some opportunity to show through our actions-be they ever so small or humble-who we are and what we truly believe.

Before you speak it, know it! Before you act it, understand it. And when your words and actions go wrong, humbly learn to accept your slips for a progressive change. Learning never ends!

I am not young enough to know everything.

That however advanced any man may 'be-in' age or piety, he is still in danger of falling.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age.

With age, I have become both more pious and more shameless.

Even as age humbles me it feeds my arrogance. There is still nothing that interests me as much as myself.

That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forgot more than you ever know.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

Dear God, please help me to be the kind of person who my dogs think I am.

Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain't right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I'm walking alone.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

Be guided by feeling alone. We are only simple mortals, subject to error...

There exists no greater megalomania than thinking that we are all alone in this cosmic ocean!

Some things are best left alone. Such as interfering in things which are beyond our powers.

The amazing ones are, those that don't know it!

Don?t make decisions in anger or humiliate an enemy after defeating him.