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Some of you need a lesson in humility. While your arrogance may give you a sense of power, it may serve you better to put it aside. Those are the times you will be the light of the world.
— J 'son M. Lee
[Tea-masters] have given emphasis to our natural love of simplicity, and shown us the beauty of humility. In fact, through their teachings tea has entered the life of the people.
— Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea
I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength.
— Kahlil Gibran, A Treasury of Kahlil Gibran
A man in trouble laments that he did not listen to his teachers, and thus he finds himself in a sad state, utter ruin. A candid admission of a blunder is refreshing and not often heard in human affairs. It is the saint alone who is large-minded enough to think and speak in this way. This is part of his authenticity.The person who is swift to hear and slow to respond is a stranger to an all-knowing illuminism. He believes that others, too, have some truth, and he is willing to be instructed by them. He is ready for the mind of God.
— Thomas Dubay
Ironic that those most holy are least likely to see themselves that way.
— Mark Buchanan, The Holy Wild: Trusting in the Character of God
when the serpent breathed the poison of his pride, the desire to be as God, into the hearts of our first parents, that they too fell from their high estate into all the wretchedness in which man is now sunk. In heaven and earth, pride, self-exaltation, is the gate and the birth, and the curse, ofhell.
— Andrew Murray, Humility
When I look at the clues that indicate the nature of Jesus – born in a barn, questionable parents, spotty ancestry, common name, misdirected announcement, unattractive looks, reared in a bad neighborhood, owning nothing, surrounding himself with unattractive co-workers, and dying a shameful death – I find his whole approach unable to fit into the methods that automatically come to mind when I think about “winning the world.” His whole approach could easily be described as nonthreatening or nonmanipulative. He seemed to lead with weakness in each step of life. He had nothing in the world and everything in God and the Spirit.
— Gayle D. Erwin, The Jesus Style
...there began to come to her a first dim realization of God's humility. Rejected by the proud in His own right by what humble means He chose to succor them; through the spirit of a child, a poor gypsy or an old man, by a song perhaps, or even it might be by the fall of a leaf or the scent of a flower. For His infinite and humble patience nothing was too small to advance His purpose of salvation and eternity was not too long for its accomplishment.
— Elizabeth Goudge, The White Witch
For me, walking in a hard Dakota wind can be like staring at the ocean: humbled before its immensity, I also have a sense of being at home on this planet, my blood so like the sea in chemical composition, my every cell partaking of air. I live about as far from the sea as is possible in North America, yet I walk in a turbulent ocean. Maybe that child was right when he told me that the world is upside-down here, and this is where angels drown.
— Kathleen Norris, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
— Shannon L. Alder
We need to approach the Bible each day with a spirit of deep humility, recognizing that our understanding of spiritual truth is at best incomplete and to some extent inaccurate ... we should approach the Scriptures in humility and expect the Spirit to humble us even further as we continue being taught by Him from His Word.
— Jerry Bridges, Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey
I had such a hard time giving all the glory to God when first accepting Him as Lord. Coming out of a theatre background where there were many applauds and accolades, I suffered from what I call "attention-itis" - the need for recognition. It took many years and much eating of crow before I became conscious of giving all praise to God for my accomplishments.
— Sheryl Young, God, Am I Nobody?
A humble man speaks not of his own humility
— Jeremy Aldana
Alex Rodriguez seemed not to fit in with the rest of his Yankee teammates. For instance, he wanted a clubhouse attendant personally assigned to him, when there were four or five for the whole team. Seeing the rift between him and the rest of the team and how Rodriguez's major focus on how HE was perceived, Joe Torre suggested in the individual meeting that Rodriguez at least get his own coffee rather than send someone to get it for him. Later that day, Alex Rodriguez made a point of telling the manager that he got his own coffee – drawing attention to himself, even in what was meant to be just an example of how he could fit in with normal behavior.
— Tom Verducci, The Yankee Years
Oh ... why not?' he smiled. "This valley is a pleasant spot for meditation. I like New England... it is here that I have experienced some of my greatest successes - and several notable defeats. Defeat, you know, is not such a bad thing, if there's not too much of it... it makes for humility, and humility makes for caution, therefore for safety.' ("Trace")
— Jerome Bixby, American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now
A blush of breeze rose from the grass. Jacob felt as if an angel's wing had beat against his cheek. He touched his cheek slowly. He felt embarrassed by the thought."That I should think an angel came to me."He wept. And, again, the brush of breeze against his cheek.
— Noah Benshea, Jacob the Baker: Gentle Wisdom For a Complicated World
The disillusionment with our own abilities is, perhaps, one of the most important things that can ever happen to us.
— Tim Hansel
On Alex Rodriguez's difficulty performing in clutch situations, Joe Torre writes, "In key situations, he can't get himself to concern himself with getting the job done instead of how it looks. There's a certain freefall you go through when you commit yourself without a guarantee that it's always going to be good. There's a trust and commitment thing that has to allow yourself fail, allow yourself to be embarrassed, allow yourself to be vulnerable
— Tom Verducci, The Yankee Years
He was not utterly unskilled in handling his own lack of training, and he refused to be rashly drawn into a controversy about those matters from which there would be no exit nor easy way of retreat. This was an additional ground for my pleasure. For the controlled modesty of a mind that admits limitations is more beautiful than the things I was anxious to know about.
— Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
Yes, I am your enemy, as I was in my other incarnations, but that is my nature, and it is something I cannot escape. As I am defeated today, I tell you to believe what you will. Just as you believe in yourself, your worst enemies believe in themselves
— E.G.Kardos
As I am defeated today, I tell you to believe what you will. Just as you believe yourself, your worst enemies believe in themselves.
— E.G. Kardos, The Amulet: Journey to Sirok
The question to ask, when you feel pride, then, is this: What am I missing right now that a more humble person might see? What am I avoiding, or running from, with my bluster, franticness, and embellishments? It is far better to ask and answer these questions now, with the stakes still low, than it will be later.
— Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy
Some things sound better if they don't come from you.
— Joyce Rachelle
Humility is an interesting virtue because if you don't have It, sooner or later it's given to you.
— Nick Vujicic, Unstoppable: The Incredible Power of Faith in Action
Que sais je? [What do I know?]
— Montaigne, Michel de
I am thankful for all blessings and lessons learned that have given me peace and solace which I try to share with great humility and humbleness.
— Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army
It doesn't make you a bad person to want to be remembered. To want to make it to the top. To provide for yourself and your family. After all, that's all part of the allure. There is a balance. Soccer coach Tony Adams expresses it well. Play for the name on the front of the jersey, he says, and they'll remember the name on the back.
— Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy
Humility carries less weight and it makes things float. Pride is weighty and it makes things sink! It takes humility then for a ‘ship’, regardless of how loaded it is, to float on the surface of the ‘sea’. And it takes pride for the ‘small stone’ to sink when dropped into the ‘sea’! Go with humility then!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
To appreciate beauty is to experience humility-- to recognize that something larger and more powerful than oneself is at work in the environment. And humility, it turns out, is key to recognizing that in order to survive, you must adapt yourself to the environment, that it won't adapt to your needs.
— Daniel James Brown, The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
If you want to have an impact in your company, have a point of view that sometimes challenges the status quo but do the work required to make the point of view an informed one.
— Martha Heller, Be the Business: CIOs in the New Eras of IT
To be humble is to be so sure of one's self and one's mission that one can forego calling excessive attention to one's self and status. And, even more pointedly, to be humble is to revel in the accomplishments or potentials of others -- especially those with whom one identifies and to whom one is linked organically.
— Cornel West, Race Matters
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion and somethings an indirect boast.
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Humility moves more mountains than arrogance.
— Alan Cohen
Have you ever noticed how the most intriguing individual in the room seems content to listen sooner than speak?
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
On his way offstage, the president shook hands with Lin and said, "I'm proud of you, man." (In a gesture of self-restraint, Lin had stuck to the performance calendar they had announced before learning that President Obama was coming, the one that said Javier Muñoz would play Hamilton that afternoon.)
— Lin Manuel Miranda
Millennials (aka Generation Y) are great at social media (Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Twitter,Tumblr, Instagram, Flickr, Snapchat, Pinterest, YouTube, Vimeo, and Periscope) but lack time tested social skills ( patience, humility, active listening, respect for parents, teachers, elderly)
— Ramesh  Lohia
Real humility is not about denying the gifts you are offered
—  it is accepting them.
Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Arrogance doesn't have variety in shades.. Humility has umpteen.
— Talees Rizvi
Father Ratti had often explained, in Religious Knowledge class, that true humility did not mean a sense of worthlessness or the kind of timidity that caused some people to be cheated and bullied all their lives. The virtue of humility, Ratti said, was merely the faculty of intelligence operating properly "The man of wisdom," Ratti explained once, "fears only one man on earth. Do you know who that is?" And when everybody guessed wrong — some said the Pope, some said King Ferdinand — Ratti said, "The man of wisdom fears himself. He knows who it is who tells him the most plausible lies, the lies he wants to believe.
— Robert Anton Wilson, The Earth Will Shake: The History of the Early Illuminati
Humility is the most undervalued godly virtue.
— Emily R. King, The Hundredth Queen
The trait [Morey] looked for was awareness that they were seeking answers to questions with no certain answers--that they were inherently fallible. "I always ask them, 'Who did you miss?'" he said. Which future superstar had they written off, or which future bust had they fallen in love with? "If they don't give me a good one, I'm like, 'Fuck 'em.
— Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World
Humility is the acknowledgement that without God you wouldn't have made it thus far.
— Gift Gugu Mona
Respect and humility go together. Humility is not meekness, but the opposite of arrogance. A wise old Indian man once said, "Empty drums make the loudest noise." Grandfather often repeated this phrase to indicate that those with the least understanding are the most arrogant.
— Arun Gandhi, Legacy of Love: My Education in the Path of Nonviolence
Personal dignity begins by accepting responsibility for our actions, acting humbly, and extending compassion to other people. Personal humility requires choosing living with quietness of the heart over living in the depths of animosity, despair, and discord.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Life never ceases having a meaning for a humble person. The freedom of choice, the sovereignty that we hold over our own souls, enables a person to discover the meaning of his or her own life every day, even in suffering or death.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
A dead end is only the end of your road if you fail to turn around. Too many people needlessly waste time and energy trying to find a way across a dead end street. Stop, turn around, and ask God for directions to get to where you were going in the first place. Recalculate!
— Katherine J Walden
At some time during the process, [of writing] I came up with a therapeutic device. After each draft I would tear up the pages and feed the paper to a worm compost I keep in my garage. A few months later, those painful pages were dirt that nourished my yard, which I could walk with bare feet. It was a real and tangible connection to that larger immensity. I liked to remind myself that the same process is going to happen to me when I'm done, when I die and nature tears me up...
— Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy
Any country that is now humbled and humiliated by darkness will be raised up by God
— Sunday Adelaja
Humility is the proper attitude towards all true greatness, including one's own greatness as a human being, but above all towards the greatness which is not oneself, which is beyond one's self
— Karol Wojtyla, Amor e Responsabilidade
A high school student wrote to ask, "What was the greatest event in American history?" I can't say. However, I suspect that like so many "great" events, it was something very simple and very quiet with little or no fanfare (such as someone forgiving someone else for a deep hurt that eventually changed the course of history). The really important "great" things are never center stage of life's dramas; they're always "in the wings". That's why it's so essential for us to be mindful of the humble and the deep rather than the flashy and the superficial.
— Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember
Mary was proud of her husband, not merely because he was a musician, but because he was a blacksmith. For, with the true taste of a right woman, she honored the manhood that could do hard work. The day will come, and may I do something to help it hither, when the youth of our country will recognize that, taken in itself, it is a more manly, and therefore in the old true sense a more _gentle_ thing, to follow a good handicraft, if it make the hands black as a coal, than to spend the day in keeping books, and making up accounts, though therein the hands should remain white--or red, as the case may be. Not but that, from a higher point of view still, all work, set by God, and done divinely, is of equal honor; but, where there is a choice, I would gladly see boy of mine choose rather to be a blacksmith, or a watchmaker, or a bookbinder, than a clerk. Production, making, is a higher thing in the scale of reality, than any mere transmission, such as buying and selling. It is, besides, easier to do honest work than to buy and sell honestly. The more honor, of course, to those who are honest under the greater difficulty! But the man who knows how needful the prayer, "Lead us not into temptation," knows that he must not be tempted into temptation even by the glory of duty under difficulty. In humility we must choose the easiest, as we must hold our faces unflinchingly to the hardest, even to the seeming impossible, when it is given us to do.
— George MacDonald, Mary Marston
And the memory made her humble
—  for we should not forget what it is to be young and to have ideas and attitudes that may later seem so fanciful.
Humility and brokenness before God is the key to making your body the dwelling place of God
— Sunday Adelaja
Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility. Catch him at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, 'By jove! I'm being humble!', and almost immediately pride—pride at his own humility—will appear. If he awakes to the danger and tries to smother this new form of pride, make him proud of his attempt—and so on, through as many stages a you please. But don't try this too long, for fear you may awake his sense of humour and proportion, in which case he will merely laugh at you and go to bed.
— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Loving ourselves so much, we are naturally led to enlarge our own merits, to play down our transgressions, to judge others by different standards from those used to judge ourselves. Enlarged merits? They are described by your fellow-writer Trilussa:The little snail of VaingloryWho had crawled up an obeliskLooked at its slimy trail and said:I see I'll leave my mark on History.This is the way we are, dear Twain; even a bit of slime, if it is our own, and because it is our own, makes us boast, gives us a swelled head!
— Pope John Paul I, Illustrissimi: Letters from Pope John Paul I
When I am paid a compliment, I must compare myself with the little donkey that carried Christ on Palm Sunday. And I say to myself: If that little creature, hearing the applause of the crowd, had become proud and had begun -- jackass that he was -- to bow his thanks left and right like a prima donna, how much hilarity he would have aroused! Don't act the same!
— Pope John Paul I, Illustrissimi: Letters from Pope John Paul I
One of the characteristics of humility is the ability to take the second place without striving for self-promotion
— Sunday Adelaja
If you suffer some losses, remember that after humility a reward from God will always follow
— Sunday Adelaja
If you have the blessings of Abraham in your life, then you should also have his obedience, humility and ability to submit to others
— Sunday Adelaja
Humility was an offensive characteristic for a God, in the eyes of early non-Christians. How could Christians worship a God who deliberately chose to share in human birth with all its mess and vulnerability and limitation, as well as a shameful death? How can we now worship a God to whom all the unimportant little details of our lives actually matter? How can we respect a God who takes us more seriously than we take ourselves, and yet is not impressed with all our accomplishments? Who loves us equally well, whetherwe succeed or fail? How could it really be that God simply disregards not only our education, our tastes, our industry, our niceness, our worthiness in order to love us? God's greatness we can begin to approach. The sheer humility of God's love is incomprehensible.
— Roberta C. Bondi, To Love as God Loves
knowing your poweris what createshumility.not knowing your poweris what createsinsecurity.
— EGO
My dear Sir.Yours of the 13th. is just received. My engagements are such that I can not, at any very early day, visit Rock-Island, to deliver a lecture, or for any other object.As to the other matter you kindly mention, I must, in candor, say I do not think myself fit for the Presidency. I certainly am flattered, and gratified, that some partial friends think of me in that connection; but I really think it best for our cause that no concerted effort, such as you suggest, should be made.Let this be considered confidential. Yours very truly,{Abraham Lincoln}
— Abraham Lincoln, Speeches and Writings, 1859-1865
Right or Wrong, most times, merely depends on perspective. It takes humility (not necessarily logic) to let go of our egos to see through the other person's eyes. But I guess even I, myself, can't let go to see why you'd object.
— Ufuoma Apoki
There are so many things we expect God to do: lead us, bring good people into our life, give us a life of abundance, make us happy, fix our problems, fix other people, triumph over our enemies, etc. However, why do so many people think they will get any of this if they choose not to live righteously? If you choose to hurt other people and not take any responsibility for it or live your life as if everyone else is the problem, except you then God is going to lead you back to the same people, same places, same situations so you can fix the same problem you ran from. God is not standing in your future telling you to forget what you did. He is standing in front of you telling you to go back and undo what you did! He leads you to places that change who you are. He doesn't lead you to places to forget who you are.
— Shannon L. Alder
Sometimes you have to do things you don't want to do but you suck it up and do it anyway, and that's what teaches you humility, work ethic, responsibility, and follow-through.
— Julie Lythcott-Haims, How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success
...all of us are somewhere on a journey to God, and the gap between least and most advanced is infinitely smaller than the gap between the most advanced and God himself.
— John Ortberg, The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People
Humility is the freedom to stop trying to be what we're not, or pretending to be what we're not, and accepting our 'appropriate smallness.
— John Ortberg, The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People
We need to let ourselves be evangelized by the poor. They have much to teach us.
— Pope Francis, The Church of Mercy
It takes more than just awareness for us to change. It takes courage and humility and the willingness to occasionally feel like fools and laugh at ourselves.
— Bud Harris, Sacred Selfishness: A Guide to Living a Life of Substance
If I had one sermon to preach, it would be a sermon against Pride. The more I see of existence...the more I am convinced of the reality of the old religious thesis, that all evil began with some attempt at superiority; some moment when, as we might say, the very skies were cracked across like a mirror, because there was a sneer in Heaven.
— G.K. Chesterton
A man who knows what it is to have humility is a vain man.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known
I've never met a soldier who knew he was a hero. It's not false modesty. They simply decide to do something that they know they must do, usually for there comrades, because if they don't, those people will suffer in some way. For them, that compulsion is far stronger than any fear. The fact we find it exceptional is a sad indictment of the human race. I'd like to live in a world of heroes. If we did, there would be no wars.
— Karen Traviss, Aspho Fields
I call this a Divine Humility because it is a poor thing to strike our colors to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to him as a last resort, to offer up 'our own' when it is no longer worth keeping. If God were proud He would hardly have us on such terms: but He is not proud, He stoops to conquer, He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to him, and come to him because there is 'nothing better' now to be had. The same humility is shown by all those Divine appeals to our fears which trouble high-minded readers of Scripture. It is hardly complimentary to God that we should choose Him as an alternative to Hell: yet even this He accepts. The creatures illusion to self-sufficiency must, for the creature's sake, be shattered; and by trouble or fear of trouble on earth, by crude fear of eternal flames, God shatters it 'unmindful of his glory's diminution'. Those who would like the God of Scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.
— C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly. This has always been the instinct of Christendom, and especially the instinct of Christian art. Remember how Fra Angelico represented all his angels, not only as birds, but almost as butterflies. Remember how the most earnest medieval art was full of light and fluttering draperies, of quick and capering feet...In the old Christian pictures the sky over every figure is like a blue or gold parachute. Every figure seems ready to fly up and float about in the heavens. The tattered cloak of the beggar will bear him up like the rayed plumes of the angels. But the kings in their heavy gold and the proud in their robes of purple will all of their nature sink downwards, for pride cannot rise to levity or levitation. Pride is the downward drag of all things into an easy solemnity. One "settles down" into a sort of selfish seriousness; but one has to rise to a gay self-forgetfulness. A man "falls" into a brown study; he reaches up at a blue sky.
— G.K. Chesterton
It is our emptiness and lowliness that God needs and not our plenitude. These are a few of the ways we can practice humility:Speak as little as possible of oneself.Mind one's own business.Avoid curiosity.Do not want to manage other people's affairs.Accept contradiction and correction cheerfully.Pass over the mistakes of others.Accept blame when innocent.Yield to the will of others.Accept insults and injuries.Accept being slighted, forgotten, and disliked.Be kind and gentle even under provocation.Do not seek to be specially loved and admired.Never stand on one's dignity.Yield in discussion even when one is right.Choose always the hardest.
— Mother Teresa, The Love of Christ: Spiritual Counsels
Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing. That was the most arrogant and mendacious minute of "world history," but nevertheless, it was only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths, the star cooled and congealed, and the clever beasts had to die. One might invent such a fable, and yet he still would not have adequately illustrated how miserable, how shadowy and transient, how aimless and arbitrary the human intellect looks within nature. There were eternities during which it did not exist. And when it is all over with the human intellect, nothing will have happened.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense
For if any man thinks that he is alone is wise--that in speech, or in mind, he hath no peer--such a soul, when laid open, is ever found empty.
— Sophocles, Antigone
Pride cannot be hidden just like humility cannot be faked.
— Bamigboye Olurotimi
Humility is never about being small, unseen and unnoticed. Humility is really about expressing all the wonder you are in a way that all people see is the awesomeness and greatness of GOD.
— TemitOpe Ibrahim
If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.
— Ted Turner
Making oneself large involves intentionally making oneself small.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Do not just think about the destination when you start the journey or just mind the direction of your journey to the final destination; and do not be carried away by the serendipity and the joy you shall have as you move, for you may never know the vicissitude of life that will arise; be careful, however, of what it really takes to truly end the journey successfully regardless what you shall have or face as you journey so as to have a great journey and a true life story of noble footprints
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
By acknowledging our boundaries and limitations, we attain greater heights than we ever will by appearing to think we know everything.
— Graham Speechley
The point that I think myself to be so terribly clever is the precise point at which I am beginning to think myself to be god-like, which causes me to become God-less.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Narcissistic pleasure seekers routinely avoid developing the humility required to manufacture a life of full measure. Shallow persons such as me hide their insecurities behind a false persona of bravado, boasting of their inconsequential deeds, pyrrhic victories, and adamant refusals to tackle any task that they fear.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
While there are things about which one does not boast, there are others for which to be pitied would be all too humiliating.
— Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
Humility is the recognition of your limitations, and it is from this understanding, and this understanding alone, that the drive comes to work hard at overcoming them.
— John Carlin, Rafael Nadal, Rafa
Humility, gratitude, and generosity – three things you can never go wrong with.
— Kevin J. Donaldson
In other words, we are only proud of being more successful, more intelligent or more good-looking than the next person, and we are in the presence of someone who is more successful, intelligent and good-looking than we are, we lose all pleasure in what we had. That is because we really had no pleasure in it. We were proud of it.
— Timothy J. Keller, The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness
There is a popular saying in Igbo 'Amakam ihe na Ozubulu, puta Nnewi buru ewu'. This means, you can be so enlightened in a particular place and when you step outside that place, you become ignorant.Again, the Igbos say "Agwo otu onye furu na agho eke" - A snake seen my one man is usually described as a Python!Always try to see what and how others are doing. It will help you stop wallowing in an imaginary self glorification!Remember to be humble.
— Magnus Nwagu Amudi
We can learn personal humility from episodes that generate shame and guilt. After retiring from worldly affairs and drawing useful lessons from personal disgrace, we must resume living an expedient life devoted to appreciating truth, beauty, and love.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Humility makes me cry! There isn't a bigger asset than it.
— Nikita Dudani
The complacency of the individual who admires his own excellence is bad enough, but it is more respectable than the complacency of the man who has no self-esteem because he has not even a superficial self which he can esteem. He is not a person, not an individual, only an atom. This atomized existence is sometimes praised as humility or as self-sacrifice, some-times it is called obedience, sometimes it is devotion to the dialectic of class war. It produces a kind of peace which is not peace, but only the escape from an immediately urgent sense of conflict. It is the peace not of love but of anesthesia. It is the peace not of self-realization and self-dedication, but of flight into irresponsibility.
— Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation
Pity is unto the bird that takes refuge and stands on the tall tree with shallow roots to boast with their sweet melodies for they shall sing a harmonious dirge the day the strong storm will arrive. But the birds that shall build their nest on the tall tree deeply rooted in the soil shall smile and sing hallelujah when they see the storm coming from afar
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
dear little baby of the folks I work for, I got a present for you .. my whole damn life! I'm handin' it over to you & your ma & pa. if you got no money to pay, I wanna stay anyhow, my pleasure is to wait on you forever. to hell with my children & hooray for you!.. you stayin' up all night fixin' up Character Parts for me! givin' 'em what you call dignity! dignity! you know what your dignity is? a black straw hat with a flower stickin' up in front, hands folded cross my stomach, sayin' the same damn fool things .. only nice & easy & proper!" --trouble in mind (1955)
— Alice Childress
the rent here may be low but i believe we have it on very hard terms --sense & sensibility
— Jane Austen
We are searching for the most humble man on the planet so that we can award him with a great honor but we are having trouble finding the guy.
— R.A.Delmonico
He that is low need fear no fall.
— Charlotte Brontë, The Professor
If you think the most courageous and difficult thing you can do is stubbornly stand your ground, try graciously giving in.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
People need to stand up for their wrongs, as they stand up for their rights.
— Anthony Liccione
Humility and competence are the keys to a successful life.
— Clifford Cohen
A student whose life is filled with woes least had and understood the hands of a good teacher that shape lives in a distinctive way
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Humility grounds a person in the realization that life is not always fair, yet it can be manageable. Genuinely humble people are psychologically secure because they do not require others to dote on them, nor do they try to position themselves for favored treatment. Even as they lay down the wish to play God, they also choose not toe allow another human to assume the position of a god over them.
— Les Carter, Enough about You, Let's Talk about Me: How to Recognize and Manage the Narcissists in Your Life
Oh. Yes. There would be someone, wouldn't there? Of course there would be a person. Ask at the farmhouse did not mean that you addressed your questions to the front porch. She had not thought it through.
— T. Kingfisher, The Raven and the Reindeer
Humble people are dignified, not because they believe their behavior can be an effective tool to control others, but because they have made dignity a part of their character.
— Les Carter, Enough about You, Let's Talk about Me: How to Recognize and Manage the Narcissists in Your Life
Indiscretion is weighted heavily towards youth
—  inaction is weighted heavily towards old age.
That’s what we’ve lost, you know. What you’ve lost; all of you. A sense of wonder and awe and . . . sin. These people know there are still things they don’t know, things that can still go wrong, things they can still do wrong.
— Iain M. Banks, The State of the Art
Think about it! God is all-knowing but you're not His only child. You're not His end all and be all. Ezra, you're good, but you ain't all that, sweetie.
— Love Belvin, Bonded with Ezra
Kissinger would probably be outraged even if he reread his own memoirs, on the grounds that they are not favorable enough.
— Walter Isaacson, American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane
It is well for us when prayers about our sorrows are linked with pleas concerning our sins—when, being under God's hand, we are not wholly taken up with our pain, but remember our offences against God.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
One of my biggest challenges is figuring out how to shoehorn my newfound knowledge into conversations.
— A.J. Jacobs, The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
The walls you put between yourself and other people doesn't just keep them away, it also keeps God away.
— Shannon L. Alder
Martin Luther was a thoroughly educated man but he wore this lightly. His sermons were littered with only examples and improving tales, drawing equally from the fables of Aesop and the follies of life he observed all around him.
— Andrew Pettegree, Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe—and Started the Protestant Reformation
Confession is the giving up of ALL self-righteousness.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
Even now, when I have time to consider what I've been and what I am, I doubt I comprehend my humanity, if I can claim so grand a word for my own morsel of life. I might as well be a meteor of a man, for all the difference I've made on earth.
— Norman Lock, American Meteor
Maybe the best way for you to get us to summon our better selves is for you to show us yours.
— Madam Secretary
If they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Your success should create a path that inspires others to follow.
— Amitav Chowdhury
Pat Conroy embraced his new hometown with the grateful passion of a refugee.
— William Grimes
The wings of the dove are as soft as they are swift. Gentleness is a sure result of the Sacred Dove's transforming power: hearts touched by His benign influence are meek and lowly henceforth and for ever.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
In front of an audience of Protestant clergy, the Catholic JFK "was drawing strength from his vulnerability.
— David Pietrusza, 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
A man is his tallest when he is down on his knees in prayer.
— Beth Moore, To Live Is Christ
Pride is the archenemy of ministry.
— Beth Moore, To Live Is Christ
As his former student Alastair Fowler once remarked, "Lewis seemed always on the verge of hilarity -- between a chuckle and a roar.
— Greg Cootsona
CS Lewis may make difficult questions accessible. I don't think he makes answers 'easy. – Debra Winger
— Greg Cootsona
The pitching coach was bugged by the author's technique because he had never seen anyone do it before, and besides, it wasn't the coach's idea.
— Jim Bouton, Ball Four
We can choose to humble ourselves by receiving counsel and chastisement. We can choose to humble ourselves by forgiving those who have offended us. We can choose to humble ourselves by rendering selfless service. We can choose to humble ourselves by going on missions and preaching the word that can humble others. We can choose to humble ourselves by getting to the temple more frequently. We can choose to humble ourselves by confessing and forsaking our sins and being born of God. We can choose to humble ourselves by loving God, submitting our will to His, and putting Him first in our lives. Let us choose to be humble. We can do it. I know we can.
— Ezra Taft Benson
The author emphasizes the importance of self-forgetfulness when his statistics were marred by a bad outing. He forgot all of that outing to such an extent that he quipped, "What was my name?
— Jim Bouton, Ball Four
We can choose to humble ourselves by conquering enmity toward our brothers and sisters, esteeming them as ourselves, and lifting them as high as or higher than we are.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance." Lord Acton
— Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
When meeting criticism, he would regard it not as something to resent but as a thing to be examined, like an interesting beetle. "That's a curious view, not uninteresting.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Though I am a lot of things, most importantly I am human.
— Lindsey Rietzsch, The Happy Lady
Be civilized. Grudges are for Neanderthals. – Hubert Humphrey
— David Pietrusza, 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
He called himself Jack, a plain handshake of a name, a far cry from the Clive Staples he had been christened, and to be Jack was the hard work of a lifetime.
— Philip Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
Happiness was the responsibility you dreaded, it required the kind of rational discipline you did not value yourself enough to assume - and the anxious staleness of your days is the monument to your evasion of the knowledge that there is no moral substitute for happiness, that there is no more despicable coward than the man who deserted the battle for his joy, fearing to assert his right to existence, lacking the courage and the loyalty to life of a bird or a flower reaching for the sun. Discard the protective rags of that vice which you called a virtue: humility - learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness - and when you learn that pride is the sum of all virtues, you will learn to live like a man.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
As the honors accrued, creativity diminished.
— Philip Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
Self-deprecation is the appropriate response of any new convert, as he matches his stained soul against the purity of God.
— Philip Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
Nietzsche tended to equate the memorable with the painful.
— Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
The author writes that key FDR aide Harry Hopkins was in such poor health near the end of his boss's second term that one observer said he didn't know how Hopkins could possibly report to the president. But, at the onset of war and genuine national emergency, Hopkins was animated with a new sense of purpose.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin, No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
Be gentle and humble in heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Prayer is the forerunner of mercy.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
I am praying that the issues from the last 12 generations go into the ground with me so I have NEW issue is to pass on to my son.
— Matt      Chandler
His core business still is self-promotion.
— Joe Nocera
Like humility, generosity comes from seeing that everything we have and everything we accomplish comes from God’s grace and God’s love for us… Certainly it is from experiencing this generosity of God and the generosity of those in our life that we learn gratitude and to be generous to others. - God Has a Dream, p. 86.
— Desmond Tutu, God Has a Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Time
The Word of God bares weight on all ages always.
— Matt      Chandler
Alas! it is but little we have done for our Master's glory. Our winter has lasted all too long. We are as cold as ice when we should feel a summer's glow and bloom with sacred flowers.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
Lincoln bought a German language newspaper.
— Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
Looking to advance in journalism, one future editor displayed skilled as varied as economic analysis and humorous commentary.
— Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
Stephen Douglas's oratory was designed for the galleries, Lincoln's for his peers
— Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
Life produces a different taste each time you take it.
— Frank Herbert, Dune
He learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.
— Frank Herbert, Dune
The entire path of the Vitraag Lords (the enlightened one) is one of humility (vinaya). The practice of humility (vinaya dharma) begins from Hindustan (India). There are endless practices of humility, starting from putting two hands together (in the gesture of Namaste) to prostrating. And ultimately when one attains absolute humility (param vinaya), he attains moksha (ultimate liberation).
— Dada Bhagwan
What is absolute humility (param vinaya)? It is on the one who has not disrespected anyone in the slightest! Absolute humility lies where there is no dispute, no difference of opinion or any law. Law is bondage.
— Dada Bhagwan
Even though every identity marker I have can be taken from me, the grace and peace of the Trinity overflows into the life of the believer.
— Matt      Chandler
Our superintendence in instruction and discipline is the office of the Word, from whom we learn frugality and humility, and all that pertains to love of truth, love of humanity, and love of excellence. And so, in a word, being assimilated to God by participation in moral excellence, we must not retrograde into carelessness and sloth. But labor, and faint not.
— Clement of Alexandria, The Instructor
It would be very difficult to draw a line between holy wonder and real worship; for when the soul is overwhelmed with the majesty of God's glory, though it may not express itself in song, or even utter its voice with bowed head in humble prayer, yet it silently adores.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
The pretence leads up to the real thing. When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is put on a friendly manner and behave as if you were a nicer person than you actually are. And in a few minutes, as we have all noticed, you will be really feeling friendlier than you were. Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.
— C.S. Lewis
CARDINAL WOLSEYSo farewell to the little good you bear me.Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness!This is the state of man: to-day he puts forthThe tender leaves of hopes; to-morrow blossoms,And bears his blushing honours thick upon him;The third day comes a frost, a killing frost,And, when he thinks, good easy man, full surelyHis greatness is a-ripening, nips his root,And then he falls, as I do. I have ventured,Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,This many summers in a sea of glory,But far beyond my depth: my high-blown prideAt length broke under me and now has left me,Weary and old with service, to the mercyOf a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye:I feel my heart new open'd. O, how wretchedIs that poor man that hangs on princes' favours!There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to,That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,More pangs and fears than wars or women have:And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,Never to hope again
— William Shakespeare
You never can tell about these mild-mannered boys.
— James Carl Nelson, Five Lieutenants: The Heartbreaking Story of Five Harvard Men Who Led America to Victory in World War I
Nothing will be attained from actions of hundreds of thousands of lives. Moksha (liberation) is attained through ‘absolute humility’ (param vinaya). The ‘gates of understanding’ are opened with ‘absolute humility’. ‘Absolute humility’ arises only when the ego is dissolved.
— Dada Bhagwan
We need more worship wars, not fewer. What if the war looked like this in your congregation--the young singles petitioning the church to play more of the old classics for the sake of the elderly people, and the elderly people calling on the leadership to contemporize for the sake of the young new believers? This would signal a counting of others more important than ourselves (Phil 2:3), which comes from the spirit of the humiliated, exalted King, Christ (Phil 2:5-11).
— Russell D. Moore, Tempted and Tried: Temptation and the Triumph of Christ
Economics has accurately been called the science of the single instance.
— George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
One of the presidential campaigns unveiled more of an infrastructure in place for the next contest than was previously thought to be present, with a spokesperson saying that one of the campaign's strengths is that it does not make an effort to draw attention to with every asset.
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I'm more human now. It's the God in people that connects them to me.– Ali
— Davis Miller, Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts
God's people are the stage upon which His forgiveness becomes visible. They are never more authentic than when they ask for forgiveness and forgive others.
— Matt      Chandler
Thus in order to be a "radical" one must be open to the possibility that one's own core assumptions are misconceived.
— Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian