Quotes About Humility

I had a little pride, as I have said, and that was good. More would have been fatal.

i did not mind anymore that i lost when we raced and i lost when we swam out to the rocks and i lost when we tossed spears or skipped stones. for who can be ashamed to lose to such beauty? it was enough to watch him win, to see the soles of his feet flashing as they kciked up the sand, or the rise and fall of his shoulders as he pulled throuhg the salt. it was enough.

Sometimes you must be content with ignorance

Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep

I did not mind anymore that I lost when we raced and I lost when we swam out to the rocks and I lost when we tossed spears or skipped stones. For who can be ashamed to lose to such beauty?

I did not mind anymore that I lost when we raced and I lost when we swam out to the rocks and I lost when we tossed spears or skipped stones. For who can be ashamed to lose to such beauty? It was enough to watch him win, to see the soles of his feet flashing as they kicked up sand, or the rise and fall of his shoulders as he pulled through the salt. It was enough.

To err is human - but it feels divine.

Errar es humano, pero se siente divino.

Want wisdom? Laugh at yourself.

And certainly there are many speakers whom I'd like to see do more trembling, more unknowing, more apologizing.

I will always aspire to contain my shit as best I can, but I am no longer interested in hiding my dependencies in an effort to appear superior to those who are more visibly undone or aching.

An evil-minded man is quick to see His neighbour's faults, though small as mustard seed; But when he turns his eyes towards his own, Though large as bilva fruit, he none descries.

Let none with scorn a suppliant meet, Or from the door untended spurn A dog; an outcast kindly treat; And so thou shalt be blest in turn.

The ego wants to own every­thing; this denies the invinci­bility of surrender, the hand­maid­en of love.

President means Chief Servant.

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Live simply that others may simply live.

The Lord is waiting for you to ask Him to get involved in your situation. The quickest and surest way to do this is to humble yourself and then to position yourself for triumph, not just victory, according to God's pattern in Second Chronicles 20:12.

Alexander Aphrodisius said that there are three causes which prevent men from discovering the exact truth: first, arrogance and vainglory; secondly, the subtlety, depth, and difficulty of any subject which is being examined; thirdly, ignorance and want of capacity to comprehend what might be comprehended.

Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.

Although Jesus Christ was Himself the Creative Deity, by whom all things were made, as man He humbled Himself--set aside His divine prerogatives and walked this earth as man -- a perfect demonstration of what God intended man to be--the whole personality yielded to and occupied by God for Himself.

But I get ahead of myself, which is nearly as bad as getting Above Myself.

Que tu sabiduría no sea humillación para tu prójimo. Guarda el dominio de ti mismo y nunca te abandones a la cólera. Si esperas la paz definitiva, sonríe al destino que te hiere y no hieras a nadie.