Quotes About Humility

Given a choice, she would rather be the one who was persecuted than the one doing the persecuting-- both had a terrible price to pay, but she would rather endure humiliation and fear than grow numb to what it was to be human.

Nobody who says, 'I told you so' has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

It is only your own ego which can feel embarrassment. Are you frightened of making mistakes and feeling foolish? Why? No one is perfect so you are bound to make some mistakes; so am I; so is everyone else. But it is how we react after making those mistakes which is important. We can apologies; we can try to put matters right; we can acknowledge the errors. And that is all we can do.

He had the arrogance of the believer, but none of the humility of the deeply religious.

Yet as human beings we have to accept-with humility-that the question of ultimate origins will always remain with us, no matter how deeply we understand the brain and the cosmos that it creates.

Lately, Nastoyna felt that she had no right to criticize anyone at all -- no man, no animal, no bird, because each lived his own life, which was not in his control and which he could not change.

The person who does a truly good deed does not remember it as long as does the person for whom it is done. And this is how it ought to be. A truly good deed, by definition, is not done with the expectation of instant return ("I scratched your back, now you scratch mine!").

One should not poke one's nose into places where Nature does not want the presence of man.

Tips for Being Mindful • Focus on what works • Keep an eye on your goals and values • Give up opinions and judgments in favor of facts • Give up expectations of reciprocity in the moment • Stop wanting • Instead of being right, lose the battle but win the war1

Quien tiene el verdadero poder no necesita joyas ni trajes fastuosos para demostrarlo. Quien siente esta necesidad admite su propia debilidad

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.

The great thing about knowing you're wrong is the moment you realize it, you're right.

If you want to hear God laugh, tell Him your plans.

I am less blindly confident than I once was, for I have been learning a truer estimate of myself, my failings and limitations, in these dark days. I have learnt to hope that if there be a Judgment Day of some kind, God will not see us with our own eyes, nor judge us as we judge ourselves.

Hay que tener cuidado con la soberbia, porque es más dañosa para el entendimiento que la ignorancia.

Above all, let's hope we never take ourselves too seriously.

I will live by the best I can discern today. Tomorrow I may find out I was wrong. Since I do not live by being right, I am not destroyed by being wrong.

Circumstances are conquered simply by having no egotistical need to conquer them.

We were looking for starfarers, but we were too small and all we saw were their ankles.

good times and bad times are like the sun and moon. You usually see one and not the other, and yet you know that both are always there. Therefore, she concluded, when your fortunes are riding high, you shouldn't feel arrogant, and when they're low, you shouldn't feel depressed.

I like to think I'm helping them by hating them. I'm reminding them that they aren't God's gift to humankind.

As people and as a planet we suffer from upward mobility and downward nobility.