Quotes About Humility

It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity. . .Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others.

Bring anger and pride under your feet, turn them into a ladder and climb higher.

Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily.

O Lord, correct me, but with judgment: not in Your anger, lest You bring me to nothing.

My dogs forgive anger in me, the arrogance in me, the brute in me. They forgive everything I do before I forgive myself.

Look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger.

The world has room for many people who are content to live as humans, but only for a relative few intent upon living as giants or as gods.

The ability to be good is not the ability to do nothing. It is not negative or passive. It is the ability to do something well--to do good work for good reasons. In order to be good you have to know how--and this knowing is vast, complex, humble and humbling; it is of the mind and of the hands, of neither alone.

It is not from ourselves that we will learn to be better than we are.

He stands under them, looks up, sees, knows, and knows that he does not know.

The world has room for many people who are content to live as humans, but only for a relative few intent upon living as giants or as gods. Twelfth

The real work of planet-saving will be small, humble, and humbling, and (insofar as it involves love) pleasing and rewarding. Its jobs will be too many to count, too many to report, too many to be publicly noticed or rewarded, too small to make anyone rich or famous.

it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.

All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have had little: the fisherman's silence receiving the river's grace, the gardener's musing on rows.

They learned to have a very high opinion of God and a very low opinion of His works—although they could tell you that this world had been made by God Himself.

Only a few know, how much one must know, to know how little one knows

A humble person lives from the part of themselves that is immortal.

The tools that strengthen the soul are understanding and living in objective love, engaging in the sensing exercise and meditation to strengthen the soul, and practicing love, compassion and humility to free it from the bondage of ego. Those are the basics." "That's

but often it is best to plead ignorance. That way you are more likely to learn secrets that might otherwise have been denied you.

I did what you would probably have done in my place. I modestly declared myself to be quite unequal to the task imposed upon me—and I privately felt, all the time, that I was quite clever enough to perform it.

Think of me pretending to be a lawyer, and not knowing how to look low enough!

On the small neutral ground of self-importance, the best men and the worst meet on the same terms.

He is never fired with admiration, since there is nothing great in his eyes. He cannot live in complaisance with others, except it be a friend; complaisance is the characteristic of a slave . . . .

To be great is not to be placed above humanity, ruling others; but to stand above the partialities and futilities of uninformed desire, and to rule one's self.