Quotes about humility
humility rights talking
One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights. Simone Weil
humility order intellectual
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
humility compassion oneself
Compassion directed to oneself is humility.
humility compassion oneself
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
humility leader needs
Great leaders don't need to act tough. Their confidence and humility serve to underscore their toughness. Simon Sinek
humility humble men
A humble man is not afraid of failure. In fact, he is not afraid of anything, even himself, since perfect humility implies perfect confidence in the power of God. Thomas Merton
humility errors sincerity
Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right.
humility journey men
It is not humility to insist on being someone that you are not. It is as much as saying that you know better than God who you are and who you ought to be. How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city? How do you expect to reach your own perfection by leading somebody else's life? His sanctity will never be yours; you must have the humility to work out your own salvation in a darkness where you are absolutely alone...
humility illusion withdrawing
Humility sets us free to do what is really good, by showing us our illusions and withdrawing our will from what was only an apparent good.
humility acceptance sacrifice
One thing is certain: the humility of faith, if it is followed by the proper consequences-by the acceptance of the work and sacrifice demanded by our providential task-will do far more to launch us into the full current of historical reality than the pompous rationalizations of politicians who think they are somehow the directors and manipulators of history.
humility
Humility is the surest sign of strength.
humility independence safe
Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted. Thomas Carlyle
humility tears modesty
False modesty is an attempt to tear yourself down. True humility focuses more on build up others. Tony Dungy
humility important indispensable
We are all important, but we are not indispensable.
humility soul pay
We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again." ~Fiddler, pg. 558 Steven Erikson
humility men judging
Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men. Thomas Brooks
humility pride grace
Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed. Thomas Watson, Jr.
humility dust way
Abraham teaches us the right way of conversing with God : "And Abraham fell on his face, and God talked with him." When we plead with Him, our faces should be in the dust.
humility acceptance reality
The complementary movement towards divine love is growth in humility which is the acceptence of the reality about ourselves, our own weakness and limitations. Thomas Keating
humility self forgetfulness
Humility is the forgetfulness of self.
humility men joy
Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.
humility nurse grace
Faith is the champion of Grace, and Love the nurse; but Humility is the beauty of Grace.
humility brain matter
Yet as human beings we have to accept-with humility-that the question of ultimate origins will always remain with us, no matter how deeply we understand the brain and the cosmos that it creates. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
humility temptation intellectual
Humans are addicted to the hope for a final reckoning, but intellectual humility requires that we resist the temptation to assume that tools of the kind we now have are in principle sufficient to understand the universe as a whole. Thomas Nagel
humility dignity argument
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. Thomas Huxley
humility thinking doe
Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you. Rupert Graves
humility traps spread
Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love. Rumi
humility kissing night
A lover knows only humility, he has no choice. He steals into your alley at night, he has no choice. He longs to kiss every lock of your hair, don't fret, he has no choice. In his frenzied love for you, he longs to break the chains of his imprisonment, he has no choice.
humility heart community
Join the community of saints and know the delight of your own Soul. Enter the ruins of your Heart and Learn the Meaning of Humility.
humility feedback
It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it. Stephen Covey
humility understanding
It seems to me that every step forward in my life has been one that brings me to a better understanding of this: that you do your thing every day the best that you can, and you approach any success at it with humility. Val Kilmer
humility men thinking
Man is not an omipotent master of the universe, allowed to do with impunity whatever he thinks, or whatever suits him at the moment. The world we live in is made of an immensely complex and mysterious tissue about which we know very little and which we must treat with utmost humility. Vaclav Havel
humility compassion different
The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. Concepts such as love, friendship, compassion, humility or forgiveness lost their depth and dimension.