Quotes About Humility

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

De repente, porém, olhei a Vida e assustei-me: era tão infinita e eu tão pequeno e tão só. Subitamente, pisei a Terra e encolhi-me: tão poucos eram os meus pés.

Homem que baba não morde.

Employ hindsight but humbly, remembering that life and death decisions are made by leaders in real-time, and not by historians in retrospect.

If you can tolerate the humiliation and helplessness and admit that you're an out-of-control fuckup, it frees you from expectations that you can't possibly meet, promises you can't keep, and appearances you can't maintain; it liberates you from the ensuring cycle of endless failure.

You look down on us... you think you're so much smarter than we are. When the only thing you really are is younger and luckier.

Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.

There are three classes of souls: First, those who are in mortal sin, who are attracted by sensuality and live in this way. Second, those who live in grace and experience peace, interior consolations and desires to be good. Third, those who feel no interior consolation, but experience the impulses of grace and follow them and resist nature. This is the best state because we live in humility.

No true love is possible, Lewis demonstrates, until we abandon our claims, our rights, our grievances. Until then we will be trapped in the obscurity of our heart's mixed motives, our will to possess, to control, to be our own gods.

We are all weak men. I am weak in ways that you are not. You are weak in a way that I am not. These are the thorns in the flesh that keep us both from becoming puffed up.

Who is the saint? The one who obeys God in his weakness, or the one who demands to have every admirable quality before he sets forth on his quest?

Unless one throws away all weapons, all armor, he cannot learn meekness.

Here's the rock, I said to myself. This man, this rough, humble, big man was just like me. Jesus looked at him and loved him. Peter looked at Jesus and said, Get away from me, I'm a sinful man. A dumb guy from Galilee named Pete. Jesus made him into Bishop of Rome, chief of the apostles, the foundation stone. Christ built a Church on all that weakness. That's what hit me most of all, the weakness. Inside the weakness was a terrific secret.

Obedience is the best form of poverty, Billy. I think that is the kind of martyrdom you have been given.

If one is called to an unusual work in the Kingdom of God, it is necessary that the roots of pride be burned out as soon as possible, otherwise pride would destroy him. Pride is the death-bringer. It ruins everything, even the greatest works conceived with the highest ideals.

The pillars of wisdom are these: humility, powerlessness, poverty, loneliness, sickness, rejection, and abandonment.

A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.

Aptal, bilge oldu?unu zanneder ama bilge, aptal oldu?unu bilir." - Shakespeare

I had originally thought that a job at Starbucks might be below my abilities. But now i realized it might be beyond them. This job could be a areal challenge for me - mentally, emotionally, and physically.

grace (free forgiveness when you don't deserve it a bit).

Sometimes we know people who are too wonderful for words. I am not one of them. Or you, for that matter, as you well know.

Anyone who pretends to "understand" Latin America is a fool.

True humility emerges from a sense of wonder and awe. It's an appreciation that our time on earth is limited but that there's something timeless at the core of every being. Embracing humility liberates us from the egotism that drives both perfectionism and self-sabotage, opening us to a deeper experience of self-worth.