Quotes about Humility

Watson,' said he, 'if it should ever strike you that I am getting a little over-confident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper 'Norbury' in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you.

Thank God for the things that I do not own.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

According to some accounts, a journalist told Eddington in the early 1920s that he had heard there were only three people in the world who understood general relativity. Eddington paused, then replied, "I am trying to think who the third person is.")

It's not about you.

Be humble as you learn, confident as you teach, and modest when you have mastered both.

If you can't do great things, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway.

Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.

And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

We need to fall, and we need to be aware of it; for if we did not fall, we should not know how weak and wretched we are of ourselves, nor should we know our Maker's marvellous love so fully.

Any old woman can love God better than a doctor of theology can.