humility Quotes

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.