Quotes About Humility

Then Croesus was angry. "Why is it," he asked, "that you make me of no account and think that my wealth and power are nothing? Why is it that you place these poor working people above the richest king in the world?" "O king," said Solon, "no man can say whether you are happy or not until you die. For no man knows what misfortunes may overtake you, or what misery may be yours in place of all this splendor.

14. Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.

Don't be a genius, my son, it isn't good for anybody.

All of us are beggars here.

He struggled to overcome his vertigo; he made it something else. No less awe, but less fear. He took what was like fear in him, and made it humility. I'm damn small, he thought, hanging like a mote of dust in still air, in a sea that's damn big. But that's alright. I can do that.

A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.*

Modesty is attended with profit, arrogance brings on destruction.

The best soldiers are not warlike.

The man of worth is really great without being proud; the mean man is proud without being really great.

No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself.

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.

The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.

There is many a good man to be found under a shabby hat.

When you are truly aligned with virtue, there is no sense of arrogance, righteousness, or superiority. When you are truly aligned with virtue, a harmony pervades. VIII.

What is modesty but inverted pride?

Beauty is not everything!

How pride had kept them from admitting their mistakes—and

There was an unexpected freedom in finding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed!

My mom has always said that if I get a big head, she'll take me out of this business as quickly as I got into it.

No one should ever go hungry, what with chewing ourselves out, eating crow and swallowing pride.

Don't known how I'll be remembered, but I hope it is with that kind of fondness, the selfless guy who took lots of pictures but was never in them. Perfect.

The second you make it all about you, is the second you've already lost. It's about people - it always has been and it always will be.

If there is anything I've learned being the mother of many children, it's that you'd better laugh at yourself, because everyone else already is.

Beware of ANY vision at all in which you personally have been singled out to play a lead role in the redoing of all human history. You haven't.