Simone Weil Quotes

Some people tell me that they like what I do, which is great, of course. The perfect irony and truth is that I need them much more than they need me.

But the very act of pausing in a busy day to pray is an act of weakening pride in my life, acknowledging that I am a dependent creature. I am not self sufficient.

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success.

It's important for us to become aware of the fact that we are needful, for with that awareness also comes the sensing that we couldn't be needful if there weren't something to fulfill the need.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

I'd been raised by my parents who taught me not to think you're better than you are.

It's not that hard to stay grounded. It's the way I was brought up.

What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.

It's really important to find a humble approach to your own creative work, your own business work. To recognize that you can't do everything yourself.

As six-time world karate champion and then a movie star, I put too much trust in who I was, what I could do, and what I acquired. I forgot how much I needed others and especially God.

When we used to go to the car-wash where people would wipe the windows, my dad would go out and help them and then tip them as well, so I learned my empathy from my dad, and my mum is very empathetic too, but in a very stern way; she will always check my ego.

You learn that you can't take what's happened in the previous years for granted.

I'm trying to stay humble for my mom.

I don't want to raise someone who feels entitled.

With time, the one thing that I have learnt is, never taking the opportunity for granted.

If I see someone that's too arrogant, that's not how I was raised.

The victory is when I realize that I can't do it on my own.

Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.

I think one must take responsibility for one's actions and one's decisions. But one should never take -- one should never assume that everything that happens for the good is achieved by one's self alone.

Who would I be, if other good souls did not make up for my shortcomings?

You will surely smile with me when I say, 'Thank God one can still recognise self-pity as such and not give it any greater dignity than just that.