Quotes About Humility

It occurs to me that, just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans bring in mercenaries to do our hard and humble work. I hope we may not be overwhelmed one day by peoples not too proud or too lazy or too soft to bend to the earth and pick up the things we eat.

Peut-être le savoir est-il trop grand, mais peut-être aussi l'homme devient-il trop petit. Peut-être qu'à force de s'agenouiller devant les atomes il finit par avoir une âme de la taille de ce qu'il adore. Peut-être le spécialiste n'est-il qu'un lâche qui a peur de regarder le monde extérieur à sa petite cage. Pensez à ce qu'il perd, votre spécialiste : le monde entier qui palpite de l'autre côté de sa clôture.

Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.

Thirty-six years old and he knows less than when he started. With the difference that now he knows how little he'll always know.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

A strong leader accepts blame and gives the credit. A weak leader gives blame and accepts the credit.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Its what you learn when you know it all that counts

It took me a long time to understand that even a stubborn mule responds to gentleness.

You're just as good as anyone, but you're no better than anybody.

Ciò che conta è quello che impari quando sai già tutto.

Never believe you're better than anybody else, but remember that you're just as good as everybody else.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. -John Wooden

When You Start Having All the Right Answers, You Will Stop Asking All the Right Questions. The path to success lies in the realization that there is always more to learn.

Solid respect without fear is what I was after. I wanted them to believe in themselves without being self-centered, intimidated or naive.

I often say if men were meant to fly we would have been born with either feathers and wings or at the very least parachutes that pop out of our butts.

Knowing that we don't know is just as important, if not more so, than anything else we might know.

Don't ever get to the point where you can't be taught because life is a classroom and everyone owns a pen.

Jesus came to serve, and He wants you to follow His example.

We had given in to our vulnerability and cast down any pretenses that we were too strong to be weak.

Do not become more useful than God.

You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until it is lifted.

The great act of faith is when a man decides that he is not God.

I don't know what to say about myself. I don't know myself (laughs). People say my humility but I believe we're all humble in our own way. I try to stay close to my family and friends.