Quotes About Humility

The true Mason does not hold or teach the attitude that, I am a Master Mason now and thus I no longer need to be concerned with using the working tools because they were given in the earlier degrees.

The very fact that these doctors continuing to be doctors--highly successful ones--despite their errors and their accompanying assaults on their self-definion would itself be a potent lesson to the students and interns. It is possible to hold one's head up after an error, to admit that errors are part and parcel of human existence, even in medicine. It is possible to see the error as an aspect of oneself, not the defining characteristic of oneself.

It makes you realize how small you are, and no matter what you plan, God has a bigger idea, and you're not the one in charge.

Et alors que je les regardais faire, que je rencontrais leurs regards, que je touchais leurs mains, j'ai cessé d'avoir peur pour ne plus ressentir qu'une profonde humilité face à leur chaleur et à leur humanité. J'eus soudain honte de la mauvaise opinion que j'avais eue d'eux des années durant. Ce fut un des moments les plus marquants de ma vie.

And as I looked at the star, I realised what millions of other people have realised when looking at stars. We're tiny. We don't matter. We're here for a second and then gone the next. We're a sneeze in the life of the universe.

What one finds in Jewish storytelling, though, is something really different: a kind of realism that comes from humility, from the knowledge that one cannot be true to the human experience while pretending to make sense of the world.

I mean that we control the way we remember the past, and that's what matters in the present. We choose what is worthy of our memory. We should probably be grateful that we can't remember everything as God does, because if we did, we would find it impossible to forgive anyone. The limit of human memory encourages humility.

It is good to be taught humility when we are young. If we do not exeperience pain as children, we will cause pain as adults.

A man should know when it is time to step aside.

I had no shoes and I pitied myself. Then I met a man who had no feet, so I took his shoes.

HAVE YOU EVER REALLY EMBARRASSED YOURSELF? Don't answer that, stupid. It's a rhetorical question. Of course you've embarrassed yourself. Everybody has. I bet the pope has. If you were to say to the pope: "Your Holy Worshipfulness, I bet you've pulled some blockheaded boners in your day, huh?" he'd smile that warm, knowing, fatherly smile he has, and then he'd wave. He can't hear a word you're saying, up on that balcony.

Always remember that if editors were so damned smart, they would know how to dress.

they both understood mistakes are made by all and that they should, if everyone is acknowledging our common humanity, our common frailty and propensity for sounding and looking ridiculous a thousand times a day, that these mistakes should be allowed to be forgotten.

Don't flatter yourself to think this is your doing. Your problem is that you think things have happened for the first time to you, and that you're the fulcrum from which all people and the current world pivot.

If you're humble before the numbers, the rewards are significant.

losing a debate isn't a sign of stupidity or weakness, but a sign of growth if you're willing to embrace it with humility. I

Never underestimate anyone, it is the most dangerous form of arrogance.

Every time I walk with Alex I'm reminded both how lucky I am to have friends like him and also how unworthy I am to have friends like him. - Oliver Stone

A pretty accurate rule of thumb is the people who did the most talk about it the least. The blowhards are the ones who did squat.

Well, that's way above my pay grade

I've found that guys who inherit like that often have a chip on their shoulder. The man brags too much about how successful he is. Somebody who'd earned it probably wouldn't feel the need. You don't see Warren Buffett telling everybody how brilliant he is at business. His actions speak for him.

Trying to recapture his youth. He should have known that nature bowed to no one, regardless of their monetary worth.

Sayin' goes, those who did the most talk the least and vice versa.

Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.