Quotes About Humility

This is one reason Eugene was so (frustratingly) reluctant to dispense advice, why he so detested celebrity: he knew these postures of the ego-driven expert were lies and illusions. And this is why Eugene would rather pray with someone than argue theology, why he'd be eager for a call from his neighbor while letting prominent figures go to his answering machine: friendship (with God and one another) is real.

Churchill kept perspective on the crowds that gathered to hear him speak by conceding they would be twice as big if gathered to see him hanged.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

People who brag of their ancestors are like root vegetables. All their importance is underground.

Perhaps one aspect of arrogance lies in not being willing to accept what life sometimes expects one to accept.

You may speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, but it all depends how you speak it! Got to be tactful, persuasive, throw yourself on the mercy and indulgence of the law. Be humble and innocent, not stiff-backed and defiant.

These days I often have a struggle not to feel inferior to you, that is in your judgment of human beings.' 'I don't think I have any judgment, at least not to be proud of. But perhaps I am nearer the earth than you. Like Garrick, I can smell a friend.

We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.

A modest little person, with much to be modest about.

Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.

Mr. Attlee is a modest man with much to be modest about.

Attlee is a modest man who has a great deal to be modest about.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

Chiedo scusa alle grandi domande per le piccole risposte che ho dato.

But perhaps I took the serious-minded too seriously and overestimated the maturity of the mature.

Wolfgang Amadé Mozart takes pity on Leutgeb, ass, ox, and simpleton, at Vienna, March 27, 1783.

I ask you most humbly to continue loving me a little, and to be content for the moment with this token of a congratulation until new drawers can be made for my small little brain box, so I have a place to put the brain that I still hope to acquire.

I can't fight. I was once run over by a car with a flat tire, being pushed by two guys.

El cuento del lunático ¿Quién soy yo para exigir la perfección? Yo, el cúmulo de los defectos.

Metí la pata. Perdóneme. El hecho de que usted no se percatara de que faltaba una carta indica igualmente cierto despiste por su parte, que yo, por la mía,atribuyo a su impaciencia, pero Dios sabe que todos cometemos errores. Así es la vida. Y el ajedrez.

The adept does not show himself;     He who shows himself's no adept.

Success always calls for greater generosity—though most people, lost in the darkness of their own egos, treat it as an occasion for greater greed.

What angers me are all those kings who are fabled for the heaps of gold in their coffers, and their freedom from trouble and pain. I have a different vision. I say that the true leader shuns luxury and ease. Once in power, he should want to work harder than ever.

I felt free to further unburden my heart. "What angers me are all those kings who are fabled for the heaps of gold in their coffers, and their freedom from trouble and pain. I have a different vision. I say that the true leader shuns luxury and ease. Once in power, he should want to work harder than ever.