Quotes About Humility

it is never safe to classify the souls of one's neighbors; one is apt, in the long run, to be proved a fool. You should regard each meeting with a friend as a sitting he is unwillingly giving you for a portrait -- a portrait that, probably, when you or he die, will still be unfinished.

The most ignorant are the most conceited.

Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man.

Less, less of self each day, And more, my God, of Thee!

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Only the very great take pleasure in the glory of others." "Oh?" He had forgotten entirely his earlier irritation. Now he smiled at the manner in which she complimented herself and himself, the two bracketed.

One of the great killers in Bible study is the statement, "I already know that.

the world becomes a better place – an easier place to navigate if we admit that even though there are opinions, they may be wrong.

And with the right mentor, don't be afraid to expose your vulnerabilities. Admit you don't know what you don't know. When you acknowledge your weaknesses and ask for advice, you'll be surprised how much others will help.

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Evren'in gözünde biz küçücük ve önemsiz k?v?lc?mlardan ba?ka bir ?ey de?iliz. Ke?ke bunu unutmama bilgeli?ini gösterebilseydik..

Humility was a cult in my family. I only got it out of my father by accident when he was very old that he had won an Olympic gold medal.

And until that day comes every true man's place/ is to reject all else and be with the lowest,/ the poorest - in the bottom of that deepest of wells/ in which alone is truth; in which is truth only - truth that should shine like the sun,/ with a monopoly of movement, and a sound like talking to God.

Man's dominion is a call to service, not a license to to exterminate.

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the House of the Lord than mingle with the top brass in the tents of the wicked.

You can always somebody who is worse than you are to make you feel virtuous. It's a cheap shot: those awful terrorists, perverts, communists--they are the ones who need to repent! Yes, indeed they do, and for them repentance will be a full-time job, exactly as it is for all the rest of us.

To err is human- I'm uncomfortable around gods.

Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser?

Today I acknowledge that I am not in position to judge what mistakes anyone is making or what lessons anyone needs to learn. I don't know how far someone has come or when that person will have a breakthrough, I simply don't know what other people should be doing. But when I think I do know, I clearly am not doing what I should be doing, which is taking responsibility for my own life.

is the attitude expressed by the hymnwriter Augustus Toplady: "Nothing in my hand I bring; simply to thy cross I cling." This attitude is the ultimate idol-smasher, for every idolatry is at root an effort towards self-justification. Every

This was defeat. This was failure; a quiet, ashen world. True humility and obedience, where the knee is bowed to the inevitable, the ring is kissed without pride or restraint.

That was the tribute written to twenty-year-old Chester W. Nimitz by the editors of the Lucky Bag, the Naval Academy yearbook of 1905. The quote, from Wordsworth's Excursion, was apt: it got at Nimitz's qualities of serenity, humility, and good-fellowship. He had a pleasant face and an easy manner. He was comfortable in his own skin. He was one of those rare souls who managed to be both supremely confident and genuinely modest.

What made New Jack City work is that I showed up with zero attitude. I was a wide-eyed rookie, a sponge, trying to soak it up and willing to learn from everybody. I didn't know shit about hitting marks or character motivation—all this acting

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.