Quotes About Humility

It was really a meditation on what he'd learned watching these people. What he'd learned about them and the nature of humanity and what he'd learned about himself. It was a remarkable study of arrogance and humility and, above all, forgiveness.

It became okay to stop the swaggering, to cease the bullying that was excused as an appropriate way to treat the populace.

wisdom: I don't know. I need help. I was wrong. I'm sorry.

There are four statements that lead to wisdom...You need to learn to say: I don't know. I'm sorry. I need help, and I was wrong. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache

There are four statements that lead to wisdom...You need to learn to say: I don't know. I'm sorry. I need help, and I was wrong.

I'm sorry. I was wrong. I need help. I don't know. He'd

the four sentences that lead to wisdom. He'd said them only once, never repeating them. But once had been enough for Gamache. I'm sorry. I was wrong. I need help. I don't know.

Instead the wiry, self-contained man had stared at him for a few seconds then invited him to sit and told him the four sentences that lead to wisdom. He'd said them only once, never repeating them. But once had been enough for Gamache. I'm sorry. I was wrong. I need help. I don't know.

Beneath his cheerful and friendly manner there peeked every now and then a condescension, an awareness that he had a lot and others had less. And somehow that made them less.

If the ego is inflated it must be gradually deflated.

If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.

I think of these desert years of mine, not of my choosing. Maybe if it were all smooth and comfortable, if my pride and professionalism were defining life for me, God's steel-quiet, penetrating word would have been lost in the babble and sheen of success.

Advice to cleaning women: Take everything that your lady gives you and say Thank you. You can leave it on the bus, in the crack.)

Whoever claims to have understood everything with hindsight cannot be taken seriously.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them unto babes." St. Matthew 11:25.

Faith in Providence is faith in one's own worth, … [H]ence also false humility, religious arrogance, which, it is true, does not rely on itself, but only because it commits the care of itself to the blessed God. God … wills that I shall be blest; but that is my will also: … God's love for me [is] nothing else than my own self-love deified.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors.

He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

If you want to understand something, you first need to accept the fact of your own ignorance.

The whole panorama makes me realize how small I am, in the grand scheme of things. How insignificant my problems are when you zoom out and out and out and see the whole of the world.