Quotes About Humility

Let no one be proud of their birth. Know that we are all born from the same clay.

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous -- on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel.

Mr. Dowler, could you go through this? Mr. Algie. Don't answer him, Dowler; he's going beyond all bounds. Paul Ruttledge. I was a rich man and I could not, and yet I am something smaller than a camel, and this is something larger than a needle's eye.

Women are like elephants to me. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one.

They gave him a manger for a cradle, a carpenter's bench for a pulpit, thorns for a crown, and a cross for a throne. He took them and made them the very glory of his career.

poverty proved greater than vanity...

Her journal is my journal. All mine is stale reading now. She has written down all my thoughts and forestalled me! Already I have found some heart-rending parallels. To think I am only a replica: how humiliating for a human being to find himself merely a duplicate of another.

I offer you what I have my Poverty

My cradle was a shoe.

Our own opinion of ourselves should be lower than that formed by others, for we have a better chance at our imperfections.

What can I give Him, Poor as I am? If I were a shepherd I would bring a lamb. If I were a Wise Man I would do my part. Yet what can I give Him? I give Him my heart.

For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.

Christmas is God saving mankind from the folly of mankind's grandiose sense of greatness.

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

As so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut.

Talk to people, not above them.

The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.

I am the farthest thing from a computer genius.

I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.

People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.

The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.

With confidence you believe you can overcome your weaknesses. With arrogance you don't even see your weaknesses.

A great man is always willing to be little.