Quotes About Humility

Successful leaders have learned that no failure is final, whether his own failure or someone else's. No one is perfect, and we cannot be right all the time. Failures and even feelings of inadequacy can provoke humility and serve to remind a leader who is really in charge.

Will the leader reflect the ugliness of egotism or the transfigured glory of Christ the Lord?

The real spiritual leader is focused on the service he and she can render to God and other people, not on the residuals and perks of high office or holy title. We must aim to put more into life than we take out.

Neither strident nor flamboyant, God's servant conducts a ministry that appears almost self-defacing. What a contrast to the arrogant self-advertising of so many hypesters today, both in and out of the church.

When we measure ourselves by the life of Jesus, who humbled Himself on the cross, we are overwhelmed with the shabbiness, even the vileness, of our hearts, and we cry: Boasting excluded, pride I abase; I'm only a sinner, saved by grace. James M. Gray Egotism

The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

I am in fact a Hobbit, in all but size.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

And, once again, this contextualizing of Christian virtue within the redemptive eschatological framework underscores the great revolution in virtue ethics that took place from Paul onward, or as Paul would say, from the cross of Jesus Christ onward: the dethroning of pride and the enthroning of humility and gratitude.

True honor does not crave recognition, as true wisdom craves not publicity. The great heroes and the great men of wisdom walk silently through the bypaths of mankind.

There are some among the so-called elite who are overbearing and arrogant. I want to foster leaders, not elitists.

The man who never makes mistakes always takes orders from one who does.

Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first.

The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.

Code of the Grunt: You ain't Superman. You do what you can and then you try to live with the fact that it wasn't enough.

You can say anything against a man who praises himself, but a man who blames himself is invulnerable.

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.

Even god doesn't propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?

It is important to remember that regardless of expertise, credential, or experience, none of us is infallible. We can all be wrong and so should not be placed above honest question or challenge.

We must give ourselves a good hard mental swat every time we feel inclined to mock, sneer, or roll our eyes at those whose beliefs differ from our own. You

You are -" she stopped fanning long enough to push the glasses up her nose - "Sprout Bradford?" I thought it was a little pretentious to say "You are Sprout Bradford?" instead of "Are you Sprout Bradford?" so I said, "I are Sprout Bradford!" in my best half-hick, half-retard voice.

To be the man after God's own heart is not to be sinlessly perfect but to be, among other things, utterly submissive to the accusing word of God.

It's the first thing I tell my students: If you could understand, really understand, that no one needs to read your work, then your writing would improve vastly by the time we meet in this classroom again.

Our business is not enemy making but enemy loving. Our business is not dividing the country into blue and red states, but being a people of one accord. Our business is not securing the power to rule, but doing justice, showing mercy, and walking humbly with our God.