Quotes About Humility

The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know.

The world has too few modest fry cooks and far too many self-important professors.

We must have our goals, our dreams, and we must strive for them. We are not gods, however; we do not have the power to shape every aspect of the future. And the road the world makes for us is one that teaches humility if we are willing to learn.

The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one.

La obsesión de colocarnos en el centro de todo es la ruina tanto de los teólogos como de los zoólogos.

Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility - these are the very foundation of any real civilization.

If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

It ain't the heat, it's the humility.

Things don't like me. Furniture purposely sticks out its leg for me. A polished corner once literally bit me. My blanket and I have always had a complicated relationship. Soup served to me never cools. Any little thing—a coin or a cuff link—that falls off the table usually rolls away under furniture that's hard to move. I crawl across the floor and lifting my head I see the sideboard laughing.)

Pasakyk, kuo didžiuojiesi, ir aš pasakysu, ko tau tr?ksta. Tai kasdienin? m?s? duona.. Neišman?lis dažnai prisistato kaip žinovas, žmogžudys - kaip pagailos vertas žmogus, nusid?jelis - kaip šventeiva, lupikautojas - kaip nusižemin?s žmogus, storžievis - kaip elegantas, o silpnaprotis - kaip intelektualas

A man who believes he's nothing more to learn about women is a damn fool.

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.

I found out too that you are bound to be jostled in the crowded street of life. That in itself need not be dangerous unless you have the open razors of personal vanity in your pants pocket. The passers-by don't hurt you, but if you go around like that, they make you hurt yourself.

Sometimes God gits familiar wid us womenfolks too and talks His inside business. He told me how surprised He was 'bout y'all turning out so smart after Him makin' yuh different; and how surprised y'all is goin' tuh be if you ever find out you don't know half as much 'bout us as you think you do. It's so easy to make yo'self out God Almighty when you ain't got nothin' tuh strain against but women and chickens.

Aw, don't make God look so foolish, findin' fault wid everything He made

It's far harder to love God and do his will than it is to be self absorbed and love my own will.

I'm definitely not a personal-type guy where I care about personal accolades and stuff, but definitely a team-guy first.

I appreciate some of the attention and the accolades, but I typically shy away from it.

I really don't look at my accomplishments. I really don't think about myself much.

I would be the worst person on earth to be called to write an account of someone else's life.

I don't think I have achieved anything that I can really be proud of.

The day I think I've achieved everything will be the day I fail. There is no end to learning, and I want to continue being a student.

I never feel proud of my work and say that this is my biggest achievement.