Quotes About Humility

We are always ready to make friends with those who look more stupid than us and sometimes we love them just for being so.

You can learn good manners from those who don't have any.

You have to be nice until you earn your first million, and after that people will be nice to you.

And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.

Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

It is well known in the legal profession that many judges, upon ascending the bench, think they are three steps closer to God.

Those who are very active in doing good works might think that they are superior to those who choose to place hearing God's word first place.

No one is wise, and no one has true knowledge without first having the fear of the Lord.

He has no need of anything that you give him, as if you can give him anything, but you have need of him to give to you, and you are always entirely at his mercy. People sometimes forget that, or they simply refuse to acknowledge it.

Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." (James 4:13-15)

This is what the LORD says: "Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom or the strong man boast of his strength or the rich man boast of his riches, but let him who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight," declares the LORD. (Jeremiah 9:23-24)[69]

as Christians, all our wisdom, holiness, and worth come from God, and not from ourselves, so that without him, we are nothing and can do nothing (John 15:5).

I have fought sixty battles, and I assure you that I have learned nothing from all of them that I did not know in the first.

Aliás, a humildade me convém após a experiência de ataques repetidos. Portanto, não perco a paciência.

Accustoming oneself to poverty, seeing how a soldier or a labourer lives and thrives in wind and weather, with ordinary people's fare and dwelling, is just as practical as earning a few guilders more a week. After all, one is not in the world for one's own comfort, and one does not need to be better off than one's neighbour.

If you want to be an authentic writer, learn to tell the truth, to wrestle with it, to reflect on it, and then to write about it with great care. And great humility.

One of the great jokes of life is that by the time you're old enough to recognize how little you know, all you can do is mop up the aftermath, dump it in a giant personal hazmat container and move on.

La presunción, tan ingenua, de la ciencia del siglo xviii de poder disolver cualquier sospecha de misterio en el mundo ha dado paso, si no a la humildad, por lo menos a una mayor prudencia.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

We are all full of weakness and errors, let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature.

No one has all the answers. Fortunately, it is not necessary to have all the answers for good management.

Boasting is always an advertisement of poverty.