Quotes About Humility

Who knows what anyone deserves? We like to play judge and jury, but we're all a rotten mess under our skins.

And sometimes I think there isn't anything to us but our mistakes.

My mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

The first prerogative of any artist, in any medium, is to make a fool of himself.

This was all given to me, he seemed to say. My body, my face, my height, my strength. I did not ask for it, I did not make it, I did not build it. I did not fight for it. This is a gift, for which I say my daily thanks as I wash and comb my hair, a gift I do not abuse or think of again as I go through my day. I am not proud of it, nor am I humbled by it. It does not make me arrogant or vain, but neither does it make me falsely modest or meek.

If someone is giving us something, thats because were incapable of getting it for ourselves.

How can I enter into dialogue if I always project ignorance onto others and never perceive my own?...How can I enter into dialogue if I am closed to - and even offended by - the contribution of others? At the point of encounter there are neither yet ignoramuses nor perfect sages; there are only people who are attempting, together, to learn more than they now know.

Dialogue cannot exist without humility. The naming of the world, through which people constantly re-create that world, cannot be an act of arrogance....Men and women who lack humility (or have lost it) cannot come to the people, cannot be their partners in naming the world.

Não nego a competência, por outro lado, de certos arrogantes, mas lamento neles a ausência de simplicidade que, não diminuindo em nada seu saber, os faria gente melhor. Gente mais gente.

Self-sufficiency is incompatible with dialogue. Men and women who lack humility (or have lost it) cannot come to the people, cannot be their partners in naming the world. Someone who cannot acknowledge himself to be as mortal as everyone else still has a long way to go before he can reach the point of encounter. At the point of encounter there are neither utter ignoramuses nor perfect sages; there are only people who are attempting, together, to learn more than they now know.

mira bien lo que te advierto: que seas humilde y blando, porque quizá estás soñando, aunque ves que estás despierto.

Ay de ti, que soberbia vas mostrando sin saber que están soñando!

en cuanto a que son humildes, gente abatida y esclava,

It's dizzying to think how huge the world is, or to realize how tiny you are

Novak was saying that the pope's message was in part: You are not nothing; you are a great deal. God made you in his image, and he calls you to be like him. And so you must walk forward in to the world each day with confidence and humility. This reminded me of what a woman in Bible study said once. "Walk with pride, for you are the daughter of a king.

You don't have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is "I don't know".

It's okay to love something bigger than yourself without fearing it. Anything worth loving is bigger than we are anyway.

The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance

The lowest form of barbarism is smugly to berate someone for extending an act of kindness.

A selfish person will never learn the joy of giving and being a blessing to others.

The day we start taking credit for the fact that he answers prayer we are in deep, deep trouble.

God is mobilising an army, but it is a broken army that marches on its knees.

Miz Fitz, If my boyfriend would just once say "I'm sorry, I was wrong," I think I would die and go to heaven. -Hellbound, a Lass Miz Fitz sez: You should wish for something realistic, like world peace.