Quotes about humility
humility pride true-humility
Love's humility is love's true pride. Bayard Taylor
humility pride
Humility is pride in God.
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Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men. Bruce Barton
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The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If I can live to be decrepit enough, I shall be a saint. Charles Fort
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Humility is a virtue when you have no other. Edward Abbey
humility years giving
A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.
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A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle. James Keller
humility long flattery
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale. Adlai E. Stevenson
humility pride assuming
Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility. Adam Clarke
humility greatness contentment
There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
humility needs intense
So many of us, myself included, need to keep our sense of personal outrage in check. Each human beings position on the planet is one of intense humility. Ani Difranco
humility roots waiting
The root of all virtue and grace, of all faith and acceptable worship, is that we know that we have nothing but what we receive, and bow in deepest humility to wait upon God for it. Andrew Murray
humility soul disposition
Humility is simply the disposition which prepares the soul for living on trust.
humility self displacement
Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God.
humility loss pride
Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil.
humility self vision
Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.
humility pride heaven
Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.
humility maturity mature-person
Maturity is humility. It is being big enough to say, "I was wrong." And, when he/she is right, the mature person need not experience the satisfaction of saying, "I told you so." Ann Landers
humility arrogance spirit
Your brilliance comes from your spirit. To deny it is arrogance. To accept it is humility. Alan Cohen
humility emotional ego
Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.
humility emotional special
The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great. Abraham Maslow
humility law profound
It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
humility thinking feelings
I see in Nature a magnificent structure... that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility... Albert Einstein
humility land intellectual
Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded modern who has lost his rootage in the land assumes that he has already discovered what is important. Aldo Leopold
humility heart reality
Ultimate Reality is not clearly and immediately apprehended except by those who have made themselves loving, pure in heart and poor in spirit. Aldous Huxley
humility reality data
Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.
humility and-love love-and-respect
For the most part, I do the thing which my own nature prompts me to do. It is embarrassing to earn so much respect and love for it.
humility design looks
What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with humility.
humility rainbow shining
Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you. Aberjhani
humility men two
... the belief in a superstratum of human beings ... is the most evil of all beliefs. For when you say, 'I am not as other men' -- you have lost the two most valuable qualities we have ever tried to attain: -- humility and brotherhood. Agatha Christie
humility passion men
When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities. David Hume
humility deceit appearance
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. Jane Austen
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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect. Ted Turner