Quotes about Humility

Oriental idea: you don't teach until you are asked. You don't force your mission down people's throats.) And so the boy

The boy answers, Don't ask unless you are willing to be hurt. Indra says, I ask. Teach. (That, by the way, is a good Oriental idea: you don't teach until you are asked. You don't force your mission down people's throats.)

Let us pray to remain in ignorance of the faults of those we like. Let us pray it as sincerely as we pray that they shall remain in ignorance of ours.

We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.

Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.

Prayer begins where our power ends.

When God says to me, "obey," then I humbly bow my head, without compromising in the least my personal dignity, as a man.

With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

The President last night had a dream. He was in a party of plain people and as it became known who he was they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said, "He is a common-looking man." The President replied, "Common-looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them."

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.