Quotes About Humility

Sometimes you successful folks can rise up so high reaching for more stuff that you miss knowing God. But you can never stoop low to help somebody and have God miss knowing you

Those who flaunt themselves are not clear Those who presume themselves are not distinguished Those who praise themselves have no merit Those who boast about themselves do not last

Criticizing himself again, Sidgwick writes: I am not an original man: and I think less of my own thoughts every day.

You see, between us and God's wisdom is a valley, a place of humility. We have to lay aside worldly wisdom. We have to become fools in the eyes of the world in order that we may really enter into God's wisdom.

Keeping one's patience is really a question of remembering one's place in the universe.

I'm actually very humbled listening to His Holiness,' the Archbishop said, 'because I've frequently mentioned to people the fact of his serenity and his calm and joyfulness. We would probably have said 'in spite of' the adversity, but it seems like he's saying 'because of' the adversity that this has evolved for him.

Like humility, generosity comes from seeing that everything we have and everything we accomplish comes from God's grace and God's love for us… Certainly it is from experiencing this generosity of God and the generosity of those in our life that we learn gratitude and to be generous to others. - God Has a Dream, p. 86.

Each of us has the capacity to commit the wrongs against others that were committed against us. Although I might say, "I would never . . ." genuine humility will answer, "Never say never." Rather say, "I hope that, given the same set of circumstances, I would not . . ." But can we ever really know?

Sometimes we confuse humility with timidity...humility allows us to celebrate the gifts of others but it does not mean you have to deny your own gifts or shrink from using them.

Ultimately, forgiveness is a choice we make, and the ability to forgive others comes from the recognition that we are all flawed and all human. We all have made mistakes and harmed others. We will again. We find it easier to practice forgiveness when we can recognize that the roles could have been reversed.

All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets,unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

I only said I felt like God, Sassenach, he murmured. I never said I was.

ONE DAY, COCK OF THE WALK—NEXT DAY, A FEATHER DUSTER

But you are not God, and there are limits to what you can expect of yourself.

you understood why people have always looked up into the sky when talking to God. You need to feel the immensity of something very much bigger than yourself, and there it is—immeasurably vast, and always near at hand. Covering you.

Grey was modest about his own endowments, but also honest enough to admit that he possessed some and that his person was reasonably attractive to women.

Perhaps it was only that the sense of reaching out to something larger than yourself gives you some feeling that there is something larger—and there really has to be, because plainly you aren't sufficient to the situation. I surely wasn't. Ian

You underestimate your own merits, John—as always. Of course, nothing becomes manly virtue more than simple modesty.

in my arrogance I had omitted to make proper sacrifice—for

It's a wise man who kens the limits of his knowledge

I try to not be or associate with elitists.

I would never assume to tell another actor how to do his job!

I'm not the best athlete.

I was a big kid and a big athlete, but let's be honest: I don't know diddly about football.