There is nothing more dangerous in this world than a humiliated man.
Nothing humbles a man like gravity.
You need to give a humiliated man some way to redeem himself in his own eyes, or else he’s at risk to be drawn into darkness. Like Germany after World War I.
The world is set up to humiliate us.
What you have to understand about my people is that they are a noble people. Humility is their form of pride. It is their strength. It is their weakness. And if you can humble yourself before them, they will do anything you ask.
Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.[to Zuko]
Never pays to think something’s definitively yours, in my experience.
Despise not the labor which humbles the heart. Humility has saved entire kingdoms the proud have all but led to ruin.[to Isildur]
