Quotes About Humility

If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.

A man named Hero washed the press cloths; Meany Hyde told Homer that the man had been a kind of hero, once. 'That's all I heard. He's been comin' here for years, but he was a hero. Just once,' Meany added, as if there might be more shame attached to the rarity of the man's heroism than there was glory to be sung for his moment in the sun.

In this world," Franny once observed, "just when you're trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that they've met you.

Listen, Jaye. When a man of advancing years tells you something is true, either believe him, or nod politely. The last thing you want to do is shake his faith in his omniscience. – Varner Hilts

The greatest crime a human being can commit is to allow himself to be humbled into poverty, into obscurity, into—" She let go of his arm, swept the room with a gesture at once damning and sad. "This. I committed that crime so that you will never

Effective decision makers are distinguished not so much by the superior extent of their knowledge as by their being aware of its limitations.

In passing however I must say of one thing that has pressed upon me lately and encreased my Humility and capability of submission and that is this truth - Men of Genius are great as certain ethereal Chemicals operating on the Mass of neutral intellect - but they have not any individuality, any determined Character - I would call the top and head of those who have a proper self Men of Power.

Better to lose your ego to the one you love, than to lose your love because of your ego

Galbraith's First Law: Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

La qualifica più comune di chi fa previsioni in campo economico consiste non già nel sapere, ma nel non sapere di non sapere. Il suo grande vantaggio è che tutte le previsioni, giusta o sbagliate che siano, vengono rapidamente dimenticate.

And sometimes you need too much to know the facts, and so humbly and stupidly you stay.

Let us pray. We all slumped immediately and unthinkingly in to the awkward crouch in which God was addressed.

There isn't much Rainer is proud about any more. In coming to America, he's had to eat a tableful of humble pie, and he's learned it goes down best with a smile.

Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.

I draw comfort from the notion that nature reveals its motivations only slowly; mysteries within mysteries that keep us arrogant, would-be know-alls firmly in our place.

The best leaders are humble enough to realise their victories depend upon their people.

All economists should be locked up until they admit that they don't know what they're talking about.

He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think that he knows enough.

I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.

Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom.

Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.

It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is - something that we must hold in our arms and care for.

When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.

I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.