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Quotes About Humility

An ocean which thinks there is nothing to learn from a lake is not a wise ocean!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
An ordinary chair is always more comfortable than the king's chair!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
As a big creature, if you do not respect small creatures, you will be even much smaller than them!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Beating drums while doing a kindness to somone is a very ugly show of ego!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Birds teach us something very important: To whatever height you rise, you will finally come down to the ground!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Carry your bag by yourself; carry your umbrella by yourself; open your door by yourself; light your own candle! Do your job by yourself! Don't use others! Don't behave like a king, don't behave like a queen! Be humble!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Create a wisdom and share it with others; in return, don't wait for anything, not even a simple thanks, because expecting something in return does not belongs to the wisdom!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Do not be proud just because you have brute force, because an animal has brute force too! Either you be proud with your intellect and with your thoughts or be silent and sit down!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Do not underrate others, do not underrate yourself, and do not underrate anything! Do not overrate others, do not overrate yourself, and do not overrate anything!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Even if you are the Sun itself, don't be haughty, because you will nevertheless die down!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Fools are the gift of the God to glorify the wise!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
For a great master, everyone is a master, because he learns from everyone! For a great master, everything is a master, because he learns from everything!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Great man is still a great man even at the bottom of a well and a little man is still a little man even at the top of a mountain!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Greatness is to stay humble when the whole world calls you great!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Let your works climb the stars; but you yourself stay on the ground!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
No man is disbeliever! Everyone is believer! All men believe in something! If a man does not believe in God, He is a believer too, because he simply believes that God does not exist! Don't give yourself airs just because you believe in something since everyman believes in something! Always be humble!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Old age is a humble victory in this killing universe.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Realise well, proud little man that even the highest clouds don't shine! For above all things there lie brightest stars.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Some little pieces of sand are so full of ego that they see themselves as a giant rock! But then the wind blows, the big ego flies in the air!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Sometimes, man must refuse to win, especially against the nature!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The day you start giving importance to the life of even a little fly, you turn into a holy man!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The greatest masters are the greatest apprentices as well; they are not only greatest givers but also greatest takers.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The power of nature can make fun of the power of man at any time!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The Sun has no chance to be nobody and that is the punishment for being a sun! If you can be nobody just like a humble tree in a silent forest, you can find the happiness too!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan