Quotes About Humility

So, if you're feeling down, confused, or shaken, read the Prayer of Saint Francis. If you're feeling elated, vindicated, or boastful, read the Prayer of Saint Francis. It's withstood the test of time, because it works.

The Greek philosopher Socrates once said, "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." Very few stories convey the profound truth of his statement better than this story of Chinese Taoist origin:

Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.

How to make God laugh? Tell Him your plans.

He who thinks less about himself leads a comfortable life.

Blessed the geniuses who know that egomania is not a duty.

one of the great gifts of our profession is that the process of doing what we do allows us to become better human beings.

Frodo emprendió su búsqueda por amor: para salvar del desastre, a sus propias expensas, si podía, al mundo que él conocía; y también con completa humildad, reconociendo que era del todo inadecuado para la tarea. Su verdadero compromiso consistía tan solo en hacer lo que pudiera, tratar de hallar un camino y avanzar por tanto por él como la fuerza de su mente y su cuerpo lo permitía. Es lo que hizo»[11]

Si por una malinterpretada libertad no fuéramos habitualmente fieles a esos compromisos de amor, caeríamos en la incoherencia, y si no rectificáramos con humildad, nuestra vida iría perdiendo poco a poco significado: de peregrinos nos transformaríamos en errantes.

Sometimes God knocks us back a bit to remind us we're not as big and mighty as we thing.

I need to remember that where my ego is concerned, the only way to win is not to play.

I don't know about technology and I don't know about finance and accounting.

Don't live like a CEO when you're still a sandwich artist.

I love supporting blue chip companies' revival. Shows wise when you are on the top and you are still not ignorant & arrogant to realise your weaknesses.

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.

As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.

If compliments were food, I'd have starved to death 28 years ago.

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

I can pardon everybody's mistakes except my own.

Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance.

It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.

Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

In Lake Wobegon, we don't forget mistakes.

Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness: forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude... the absence of profound thankfulness.