Quotes About Humility

Sometimes it ain't the drunk or the sinner who needs a shovel across the rear, it's the ones who could quote you chapter and verse about grace, but don't hand it out.

All labor is joy," she tells me. "It is not washing dirty floors, but the feet of Jesus, Iola. All we do for others, we do for the One Most High.

Gentleman Jim [dog] was cheerful enough, partly because his owner was so well trained... He had alsot trained him to get up when he didn't want to, simply by climbing slowly and painfully on top of him and squeezing all the breath out of him as he slept. On the occasions this didn't work and Gordon seemed to be simply lapsing into a coma, Gentleman Jim would unroll his massive tongue, containing over a half a pint of drool, and dribble it slowly into his ear until Gordon finally awoke...

In the end the women of Christmas quietly stepped aside, making room for the One who truly matters.

When you finally do fall in love, don't you dare be smug about it. In

Strive to become the true human being: one who knows love, one who knows pain. Be full, be humble, be utterly silent, be the bowl of wine passed from hand to hand. (Al-Ansari)

Be in this world as if you are a traveller, a passer-by, with your clothes and shoes full of dust. Sometimes you sit under the shade of a tree, sometimes you walk in the desert. Be always a passer-by, for this is not home. – Hadith of the Prophet

You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word. Their spirit is something else again. As for governing, one must first be lowest before being highest.

There is no vanity so damaging to a man's character as pride over his good deeds!

A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.

Don't be a genius, my son, it isn't good for anybody.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

You don't need to be smarter; you just need dumber friends.

Excrement happens.

You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.

Do I think I'm a holy man? Sometimes.

There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.

What discord should we bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered! Then we should govern the world, and not God. And do you think we should govern it better?

Ah! vainest of all things Is the gratitude of kings.

Who dares to say that he alone has found the truth?

Be what it may, I will always esteem and adore the divine genius of this Gentleman, taking from him what I understand with humility and admiring with veneration what I am unable to understand.

Meekness is the chief grace and perfection of the soul.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.