Quotes About Humility

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle... (or) Einstein's Theory of Relativity ... (or) the Second Theory of Thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love

We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.

Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself; is not puffed up; does not behave rudely; does not seek its own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil: does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.

The four hardest tasks on earth are neither physical nor intellectual feats, but spiritual ones: To return love for hate; to include the excluded; to forgive without apology, and to be able to say 'I was wrong.

Contentment will come when you drop the search and you live each moment as it comes, Marry yourself to the divine principles of love, honesty, trust and humility, then you shall enjoy this earth with peace and with what you desire most.

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending out a love letter to the world.

Forgiveness and love, cannot be earned, deserved, bought, sold, won, or forced. They are a gift and should never be taken for granted or expected. Only accepted.

Let ego die and let love live. Ego kills but love heals. Lets love, live and heal. Surely life deserves the best.

The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, how can you hope to find inward peace.

A wealthy man owns little land and rarely sees money, he lives humbly without desire and love in abundant supply.

I have this complex. I don't like too much exposure. I don't know why it is. Maybe it's bred in me, because my dad always told me to be humble and don't think you're too good.

Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of 'not knowing.

The spider's lesson is never to be greedy. It shows that objects of necessity can be objects of beauty and art as well. The spider teaches us that we can be too easily enraptured with ourselves.

One thing the Bible makes perfectly clear is that God absolutely hates pride and loves humility.

We think we can do it without God, or worse, that God can't do it without us.

I know nothing. (based on James 4:14)

This is a humbling lesson in power for those of us who believe that, because we're a parent, teacher, or manager, our job is to change other people and make them behave.

Leadership is not about me. It is all about them.

Being smart turns people on. Announcing how smart you are turns them off.

No matter what someone tells him, he accepts it by reminding himself, "I won't learn less." What that means is when somebody makes a suggestion or gives you ideas, you're either going to learn more or learn nothing. But you're not going to learn less. Hearing people out does not make you dumber. So, thank them for trying to help.

When we presume that we are better than people who need structure and guidance, we lack one of the most crucial ingredients for change: humility.

But God does use the foolish things of the world to confound the wise. It doesn't matter who we are really - just who He is. - Miz Opal

I felt both puny and pretentious, trying to write in the grandeur of that natural world where everything was older than time and I was the briefest object in the landscape.