Quotes About Humility

We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve

ja" sa prejavuje a zárove? obetuje, pretože je dávané, tiahnuté mimo seba v onej extáze, ktorou je tvorba, zomiera samé sebe, aby žilo v diele, vo ve?kej pokore, vydáva sa bez obrany!

La modestia conviene al sabio, pero no a las ideas que posee y que debe defender

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That was the trouble with smart men. They thought they had all the answers, and then when life knocked them aside, they thought it was all their faults.

Seek Knowledge and adorn it with forbearance and dignity. Be humble to those whom you teach and to those from whom you learn. Don't be tyrannical in your teaching conduct, for you will forfeit that to which you are entitled to (the reward) on account of it.

During the periods of famine and drought the Prophet's fostermother Halimah came at times to see her son. The Prophet then used to spread his cloak under her feet, recollected her kind sentiments and the simple life which he had spent with her and listened to what she said. At the time of her departure he helped her with as much as he could afford.

Generally, the smartest people on the planet – those people who think they are really smart – tend to have the most horrible relationships.

The whole art of being a Guru is just this: to constantly puncture people's egos and still manage to remain their friend.

Asking for outside help, or even if it comes unasked, to allow outside help, needs a certain gracefulness and humility. Otherwise, you cannot allow outside help. Lots of people cannot receive something gracefully. Always, the social ethics have taught you that giving is important, taking is not important. Yes, taking is not important, taking is ugly, but receiving is very important.

If you think you are big, you become small. If you know you are nothing, you become unlimited. That's the beauty of being a human being.

No call alligator long mouth till you pass him.

I so despise a man who blows his own horn, that I go to the other extreme.

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.

You're a fine little boy," Mr. Starr, said. "But it isn't nice of you to lord it over your sister." "What's 'lord it'?" "Brag about things you can do, that she can't do yet. That isn't nice.

I can read them now, he reflected. I even know how to say "Sturkeys." But he thought it best not to say so; he remembered how his father had said, "Don't you brag," and he had been puzzled and rather stupid in school for several days, because of the stern tone in his voice. What was bragging? It was bad.

And this is what it means to be able to see yourself as a sinner: far from "seeing yourself as a sinner" being some sort of moralistic demand that you browbeat yourself and come up with a list of alleged failings, being able to see yourself as a sinner is merely the sign that you are able to hold yourself peacefully and realistically as being who you are, non-defensively, because you know yourself loved. You are no longer frightened of being seen to be, or actually being, a failure.

Vanity is the Death of Comedy.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

The Christian is never to be motivated by a sense of his own honor, but rather by the honor of Christ. If pride was Satan's original sin, humility and patient faith are the Christian's primary duty.

The Christian is never to be motivated by a sense of his own honor, but rather by the honor of Christ. If pride was Satan's original sin, humility and patient faith are the Christian's primary duty. The Christian casts his own honor in the dust so that God may be honored, knowing that God and God alone can give him true honor. The Christian, thus, lives by obedience and submission, not by pride and honor and nobility.

La cosa che l'uomo vuole meno di tutte è il perdono, perché il perdono lo incastra e lo costringe a riprendere.

Thus, sir, you see when faith is lacking, it becomes impossible to create certain states of happiness, for we lack the necessary humility. Vaingloriously, we try to substitute ourselves for this faith, creating thus for the rest of the world a reality which we believe after their fashion, while, actually, it doesn't exist.

Blessed are you when you pray for others. Shame on you when you pray out of selfishness and greed (311).