Quotes about Humility

In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.

We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own.

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

God often works more by the life of the illiterate seeking the things that are God's, than by the ability of the learned seeking the things that are their own.

Live like Jesus did, and the world will listen.

Mistakes are a fact of life. If you are willing to be wrong then you have earned the right to be right.

We need days of failure because they help humble us, and through them we can see how God's grace is poured out on the humble.

The weaknesses, failures, and sins of our family are the places where we learn that we need grace too. It is there, in those dark mercies, that God teaches us to be humbly dependent. It is there that He draws near to us and sweetly reveals His grace. Paul's suffering teaches us to reinterpret our thorn. Instead of seeing it as a curse, we are to see it as the very thing that keeps us pinned close to the Lord.

However , it's over, and I'll take no revenge on his folly — I can afford to suffer anything, hereafter! Should the meanest thing alive slap me on the cheek, I'd not only turn the other, but I'd ask pardon for provoking it — and, as proof, I'll go make my peace with Edgar instantly — Good night — I'm an angel!

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!'.