Humility Quotes - Page 13

Harshaw had the arrogant humility of the man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ignorance and he saw no point in 'measurements' when he did not know what he was measuring.

Robert A. Heinlein

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.

David Halberstam

The judicial wheel is rounded with equality, oiled with honour and functions smoothly with honesty – principally when both members of the Bench and Bar shoulder their responsibilities seriously.

Embrace the magical gift of serenity in your daily life. Nothing beats patience, humility, honesty and tranquility.

Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me.

Confessions are meant to reveal universal truths through specific examples.

Yishai Schwartz

The adult author finds that by inadvertently violating the school's alcohol policy, she breaks down some part of the barrier between her and the younger students who are subject to more rules.

Lincoln admitted his infirmities to make way for his spring.

Richard Brookhiser

The author describes Lincoln's attitude in making a deal with a newspaper publisher as, "almost defiant transparency.

Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The root of all true greatness, is humility.

If you were really humble you would be great, because humility would never squander the magnificent gift of life.

Don’t cap your potential in the name of humility. First, maximize your potential, serve the world with your greatness and then worry about pride :-) lol

Assegid Habtewold

Cockiness is a display of an empty lifestyle, humility is when you see yourself as a zero while others are making you their hero.

Michael Bassey Johnson

the more the tree goes up in the air, the more it goes down into the earth. Remember humility in greatness.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Simplicity and humility are the flowers of greatness.

Debasish Mridha

You're allowed to practice humility while also owning your greatness. Don't you dare minimize your greatness.

Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he was a great man who never achieved greatness, and this will not only be trite, but wrong; he was a great man who never achieved arrogance.

Be careful not to mistake insecurity and inadequacy for humility! Humility has nothing to do with the insecure and inadequate! Just like arrogance has nothing to do with greatness!

I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful.

The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person's mask.

It is easy to do good, but it takes a lifetime to become human!

Nothing is more scandalous than a man that is proud of his humility.

Marcus Aurelius

A culture capable of imagining complexly is a humble culture. It acts, when it has to act, as late in the game as possibl, and as cautiously, because it knows its girth and the tight confines of the china shop it's blundering into. And it knows that no matter how well prepared it is -- no matter how ruthlessly it has held its projections up to intelligent scrutiny -- the place it is headed for is going to very different from the place it imagined. The shortfall between the imagined and the real, multiplied by the violence of one's intent, equals the evil one will do.

George Saunders

The humility of wisdom is the happy consciousness that all things come from God, are sustained by God, and exist for God. This wisdom is rooted in the pride-destroying, joy-giving cross of Christ.

Knowing and thinking exist for the sake of love -- for the sake of building people up in faith. Thinking that produces pride instead of love is not true thinking.

As for the fear, you'll have to put up with that like the rest of us.

William Golding

I don't care if your the President of the United States, the Queen of England, the inventor of the microchip, a bankable movie star, or an ordinary Joe or Jill, you're no paragon in my book, but the same as a zebra or gazelle - a source of protein. In fact, I'd rather hunt you, because you're slow and feeble.

Any man's measure is determined by what he will do when he is faced with his own deep need. Not how high he may reach but how low he may kneel.

Dr. J. Otis Yoder

Humility and shame have been confused. Humility is knowing that you know nothing for sure and shame is someone having to tell you.

good people bring the good out of people

Speech one may regret,Silence no sorrow begets,Humility be born before honour,Soft answer turns wrath’s corner

Christianity, true Christianity, is experienced when we crucify the anger, pride, vanity and lust that dwells within ourselves and consciously replace it with the sacrificial love, humility, modesty and chasteness of the One who so many profess to believe in and follow. -Jason Neville Versey

Jason Neville Versey

When making a point, there are 2 types of people who may disagree with you: those who can support their reasons, and the childish ones who are too worried about being told what to do.

Anyone can possess, anyone can profess, but it is an altogether different thing to confess.

Shannon L. Alder

There are some mornings when I cry and cry and mourn for myself. Some mornings, I'm so angry and bitter. But it doesn't last too long. Then I get up and say, 'I want to live..' 'So far, I've been able to do it. Will I be able to continue? I don't know. But I'm betting on myself I will.' Koppel seemed extremely taken with Morrie. He asked about the humility that death induced.

Nothing frustrates people more than a cocky guy who's still winning.

There are heroes and schmucks in all worlds. The most important thing is whether you are willing to engage in moral struggle against yourself.

the most lovable of exceptional American qualities (is) our tradition of insisting that we are part of the middle class, even if we aren’t, and of interacting with our fellow citizens as if we were all middle class.

In the context of today, this WAS heroism.

John Howard Griffin

It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it.

Humility is the only thing that can restore a relationship, when respect has been lost.

Shannon L. Alder

If you have to walk along a dark mountain path, don’t you prefer to have a flashlight to shine on the path ahead? I would suggest that it is possible to have that flashlight in life all the time. What does a flashlight give us? Light.That is, a flashlight sheds light. It is like the faculty of attention—if we turn our full attention to something, we learn more about that thing. We are seeing it with more light. Our attention is our ‘flashlight.’ So it’s all about how much and how fun an attention we consciously bring to life. This quality of attention doesn’t make us hesitant, or slow to decide, particularly—just as the flashlight doesn’t make us hang back on the trail. So, how do we get to the better quality of attention? With attention! That is, we turn our attention on our attention; we start by trying to see how we don’t pay attention. We sort of keep that light on ourselves. ‘Know thyself’ has been an honored ancient teaching, and it’s still a cornerstone of the world’s greatest philosophies. If you watch yourself honestly, in a detached way—not guilt-tripping yourself when you screw up—you gradually learn where it was that you were just blundering along, reacting sort of mechanically, and being asleep even as you were in your waking day. Another way to make this happen is by returning your whole attention to the present—to what’s happening now, in this moment, and this moment, and on—within yourself and around you.

James L. Harmon

Self-acceptance should not be confused with an over-vaulting aggrandisement of self over others. That individual's exaggerated positive view of self relies upon a comparison with others - they sustain their own positive self-view, relatively, by maintaining a negative view of others.

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.

Theodor W. Adorno

Standard languages are inventions, most of them confined to a recent period in human history. They are codes that give access not to clear thinking and basic decency but to the structured parts of our lives such as job interviews, political speeches, literary essays, novels, and the like. They signal education and learning, but they are not the same thing as education and learning.

Robert Lane Greene

Most insensible, corrupt, cheap, disrespectful young girls run after bad, rude, cocky, nonsensical boys, but a mature, educated, thoughtful, virtuos lady opts for a wise, well breed, experienced, humble, modest gentleman.

Michael Bassey Johnson

...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.

Patrick Süskind

Our audacity must be rooted in our humility.

Pushkar Ganesh Vaidya

Today I speak the truth as I know it to be, tomorrow I may know better.

Gratitude is the heart of humility, and humility is the path to peace, love, and understanding.

One of the keys to achieving understanding is humility.

Norhafsah Hamid

There is no better place as better as where God has placed you, be it good or bad, for His better reasons. Just keep calm and be humble and diligent enough to learn the better and real reasons that shall take and place you at the best place He wants to place you! If you don’t understand the lessons, ask Him for the reasons. If He answers you fine, if not, just keep going and keep learning the lessons. You shall definitely get a good understanding in the end!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend.

The most powerful tools of revolution through intention are humility and consciousness.

Humility and full consciousness are inseparable.

False humility is the pride of not being proud, real humility is without the consciousness that pride exists.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Without haters, you can't see the level of your progress, that shows you that haters are necessary evil.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Losing well was a gift, but winning well is this stuff of the authentic manhood.

Every story of conversion is a story of blessed defeat.

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