Quotes About Humility

Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.

Once we've learned enough about the universe we will admit to ourselves that we will never know everything.

Remember how unimportant you are because that knowledge will gain you more respect than someone who thinks the world revolves around them.

It's funny how easy it is to point out other peoples mistakes and make our own mistakes seem insignificant.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love." Some

Mother Teresa put it like this: "In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.

Selfless men wind up in neglected graves.

Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.

I know nothing about technology.

I am deficient in character, and if I had more of it, I would be ashamed of the fact.

The PJC quoted the Confession of 1967: "Congregations, individuals, or groups of Christians who exclude, dominate, or patronize their fellowmen [sic], however subtly, resist the Spirit of God and bring contempt on the faith which they profess.

Knowledge is useless unless you know where it ends.

LEAD LIKE YOU'RE RIGHT, BUT LISTEN LIKE YOU'RE WRONG

If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.

The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that "if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.

He admonished them never to think of themselves as the strongest or smartest. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it, he warned. When the animals climb to the top of the mountain, they are even higher than it is.

When you are a leader, your job is to have all the questions. You have to be incredibly comfortable looking like the dumbest person in the room. Every conversation you have about a decision, a proposal, or a piece of market information has to be filled with you saying, "What if?" and "Why not?" and "How come?

By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?

The meek shall inherit the earth. They won't have the nerve to refuse it.

There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.

He'd never in his life been so hungry and tired. What wouldn't he give for a simple mug of tea and a humble fried egg sandwich?

Wisdom comes when we acknowledge what we can never know.

No matter what God's power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of absolute Master, the Almighty. It is that of the God who puts himself on our human level and limits himself.

Thus violence can never be justified or acceptable before God. The Christian can only admit humbly that he could no do otherwise, that he took the easy way and yielded to necessity and the pressures of the world. That is why the Christian, even when he permits himself to use violence in what he considers the best of causes, cannot either feel or say that he is justified; he can only confess that he is a sinner, submit to God's judgment, and hope for God's grace and forgiveness.