Quotes About Humility

Sometimes it doesn't matter how right you are... sometimes just shutting up is the best course of action.

Judging others is like looking in a mirror, reflecting the disappointments and frustrations you have in your own life, restraining you from praising others.

If you really love someone, then your ego is not greater than they are. Your complete submission to the one you love is the sign of true love.

Happiness keeps you Sweet, Trials keep you Strong, Sorrows keep you Human, Failures keep you Humble, Success keeps you Glowing But Only Friends Keep You Going.

A lifetime of cleverness can be interrupted by moments of stupidity.

He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well.

Thunder Strikes on those who put themselves above everybody else.

Don't lose hope, just lose your ego with work and patience.

A person who seeks for sense of gratitude from others is the person who doesnt know how to apply it to his own being. He who only sees himself as a giver is the one indebted big time to someone else. So let us not live in deceit and become self righteous for a simple act of goodwill because maybe once upon a time in our lives we needed a favour from others, and we have forgotten that we owe them something as well. Just remember life is a two way road.

When life get's tough, don't be ashamed or be too proud to ask for help.

Worry is most often a prideful way of thinking that you have more control over life and its circumstances than you actually do.

A beautiful life does not just happen, it is built daily by prayer, humility, sacrifice and love.

When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

True humility and fear of the Lord lead to riches, honor, and long life.

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best both for the body and the mind.

I'm tired of all this isolation. I'm tired of this triviality of life. I want real human emotion. I want to feel the natural spontaneity of life, the beautiful randomness and rawness that is life. I want to see you and I want you to see me and I want to bask in that moment of humility and intimacy and the acknowledgement of your dignity and my humanity, even if it is for a second. That'll be enough.

It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.