Quotes About Humility

I would rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

There is no glory in otustripping donkeys.

If God was small enough to understand, I reckon He wouldn't be big enough to worship.

Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to see mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

Bless me or not, Lord, just as You please, for I'll not beg.

Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift.

Politicians should resist the temptation to consider themselves experts in fields where they have no experience.

He had been born thrifty which was fortunate, for he was too earnest and humble ever to win earthly riches.

Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous.

For there's nothing more foolish than a man who thinks he's clever, and nothing more wise than the man who knows that he is nothing.

A handsome young knight is madly in love with a princess, and she too is in love with him, though she seems not to be entirely aware of it. Despite the friendship that blossoms between them, or perhaps because of that very friendship, the young knight finds himself so humbled and speechless that he is totally unable to bring up the subject of his love. Until one day he asks the princess point-blank: Is it better to speak or to die?

There is no greater fool than he who thinks himself wise; no one wiser than he who suspects he is a fool." Marguerite de Valois

There is no greater fool than he who thinks himself wise; no one wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

Je sais que je ne sais pas ce que je ne sais pas.

he should examine himself, and purge himself of his sins of tyranny, he must tear down that ancient complex of pride and anger that unconsciously encrusts his heart; strip himself of pride and anger and become humble; this first of all; then clothe himself in charity. These are the spiritual qualities he has to acquire. This is the central point of balance without which it is impossible to proceed. This is his "training", its starting point, and its goal.

In their simplicity they asked of Him, "Master, tell us who shall be greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?" To which Christ, caressing the head of a little child who, with reverent, wondering eyes, looked into His face, replied, "Whosoever shall become as one of these little ones, he shall be greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven." Now

Starting at the bottom is not about humiliation. It's about humility—a realistic assessment of where you are in the learning curve.