Quotes About Humility

I'm not here to promote your pride.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.

Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own

To experience brokenness and humiliation all you have to do is lead.

The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime.

Maturity is humility. It is being big enough to say, "I was wrong." And, when he/she is right, the mature person need not experience the satisfaction of saying, "I told you so."

My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.

The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.

The balance between confidence and humility is best learned through extensive experience and mistakes.

I like to bet on people, especially those who have taken risks and failed in some way, because they have more real-world experience. And they're humble.

Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain.

The acting world is a humbling experience, I find.

If you have not the experience, ask. There is no shame in asking, but do not pretend you know when you don't.

Let weakness learn meekness.

I had not yet acquired the experience which gives modesty.

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.

Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.

Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.

by then I'd figured out the gift of failure, which is that it breaks through all that held breath and isometric tension about needing to look good: it's the gift of feeling floppier.

Sometimes we shrink from leadership because our pride makes us afraid of failure. That's not humility.

Always consider your intellect to be lacking; otherwise too much faith in it surely leads to error.

What will be the crown of those who, humble within and humiliated without, have imitated the humility of our Savior in all its fullness!

Recite your Rosary with faith, with humility, with confidence, and with perseverance.