Humility Quotes - Page 20

Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my Commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life. (Address to Congress on Resigning Commission Dec 23, 1783)

George Washington

Selflessness is humility. ... humility and freedom go hand in hand. Only a humble person can be free.

With humor and humility you can withstand anything.

Shannon L. Alder

Before you're given what you want, you'll first be tested with what you don't really want.

Constance Friday

If you think the world is full of darkness, let us see your light. If you think the world is full of wickedness, let us see your goodness. If you think people are acting wrongly, let us see your right action. If you think people don't know, let us see what you know. If you think the world is full of uncaring people let us see how you care about people. If you think life is not being fair to you, let us see how you can be fair to life. If you think people are proud, let us see your humility. We can easily find fault and we can easily see what is wrong but a positive attitude backed by a right action in a true direction is all we need to survive in peace and harmony in the arena of life

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

History was not simply a catalogue of the dead and buried and benighted, but rather a vast new world to be pioneered; ...if you approached the past generously, so to speak—its people as humans, not facts, as modern in their time as we were in ours, who thought and felt as we do, the dead would live again, our equals, not our old-fashioned, hopelessly unenlightened, and backward inferiors. Humanity, to be fully known, had to be seen as changeless as well as ever changing.

People who are ready to learn are those who will be the best to lead.

Israelmore Ayivor

Being first to ask for help in a friendship takes courage and humility.

See the world through the eyes of your inner child.The eyes that sparkle in awe and amazement as they see love, magic and mystery in the most ordinary things.

The Honey that Adorns my soul to Network with all Nobility in an Affable Humility means Hannah

Wisdom Kwashie Mensah

Hannah means The Honeycomb of Abundant nutrients which Nourish my soul to be Noble in my all networks with an Affable Humility.

Wisdom Kwashie Mensah

We exercise kindness in any moment when we recognize our shared humanity—with all the hopes, dreams, joys, disappointments, vulnerability, and suffering that implies.

Sharon Salzberg

The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I respect the decision of others.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivates the mightiest of offices to humbly heed lessons in compassion.

Aberjhani

A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness.

The Christian God seemed the most offensive to people precisely because he was the most godlike. He was too perfect even to be coaxed by human efforts, and therefore sent his son to do the job.

Humble people walk comfortably in every group. No one is either too beneath them or too above them for their own sense of well-being. They are who they are, people with as much to give as to get, and they know it. And because they're at ease with themselves, they can afford to be open with others... Having discovered who we are and having opened ourselves to life and having learned to be comfortable with it, we know that God is working in us. We know, most of all, that whatever happens we have nothing to fear... we are free of the false hopes and false faces and false needs that once held us down. We can fly now. Let all the others scratch and grapple for the plastic copy of life. We have found the real thing.

Joan D. Chittister

What I think is true is that at a certain stage in his life, he deliberately ceased to take any interest in himself except as a kind of spiritual alumnus taking his moral finals...Self-knowledge for him had come to mean recognition of his own weakness and shortcomings and nothing more. Anything beyond that he sharply suspected, both in himself and in others, as a symptom of spiritual megalomania. At best, there was so much else, in letters and in life, that he found much more interesting than himself.

What I think is true is that at a certain stage in his life he deliberately ceased to take any interest in himself except as a kind of spiritual alumnus taking his moral finals...Self-knowledge for him had come to mean recognition of his own weakness and shortcomings and nothing more. Anything beyond that he sharply suspected, both in himself and in others, as a symptom of spiritual megalomania. At best, there was so much else, in letters and in life, that he found much more interesting! As far as I am able to judge, it was this that lay behind that distinctive combination of an almost supreme intellectual and 'phantastic' maturity, laced with moral energy, on the one hand, with...a certain psychic or spiritual immaturity on the other

What I think is true is that at a certain stage in his life, he deliberately ceased to take any interest in himself except for a kind of spiritual alumnus taking his moral finals...Self-knowledge for him had come to mean recognition of his own weakness and shortcomings and nothing more. Anything beyond that he sharply suspected, both in himself and in others, as a symptom of spiritual megalomania. At best, there was so much else, in letters and in life, that he found much more interesting than himself.

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destru

It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destru

It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.

Trials make you strong.Failure makes you humble.Challenges make you strive.Life keeps you going and growing

Every winner is inclined to think he will be triumphant forever. Every loser tends to fear that he is going to be beaten forever. But both are wrong for the same reason: Everything changes except the face of god.

The point at which things happen is a decision. In stead of focusing on yourself, focus on how you can help someone else.

You know, I think it's important to keep a balance in things. Yeah, balance, that's the right word. Cause the guy who wants too much risks losing absolutely everything. Of course, the one who wants too little from life, might not get anything at all.

I’ve never been motivated by money – it doesn’t drive Me.

You can be humble without compromising your values.

Israelmore Ayivor

Humility is the fundamental principle that builds up greatness. Arrogance on the other hand never brings anything good. When you are humble, you’ll learn to become better.

Israelmore Ayivor

You can’t accept correction when you are not humble to listen.

Israelmore Ayivor

Bear in mind that humility is not timidity.

Israelmore Ayivor

Arrogance created to project a self-image of superiority is the very trait that demonstrates to others deeply hidden inferiority.

Sam Owen

The sun still lives his silent vows to the moon, by bowing to kiss her feet whenever she walks in the room.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

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Curtis Tyrone Jones

The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us, and carry out, in our ordinary conduct; the insignficances of daily life are the importances and the tests of eternity, because they prove what really is the spirit that possesses us.

Use every opportunity of humbling yourself before your fellow-men as a help to abide humble before God.

It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.

No one here is embarrassed of their gift.

Education has enhanced my wisdom. Simplicity and humility will not allow me to call myself wise.

Debasish Mridha M.D.

Because children already have a realization of their weakness, is this not the best opportunity to apply the gospel to their hearts?

He couldn't be a doctor, or he would have a quieter and more persuasive manner.

Charles Dickens

She was torn between her customer service training and her youthful certitude.

Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers’, but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly.

James Fenimore Cooper

Do not listen to a single soul, but your own inner voice. Foster your will and make it as wild as possible. Dive deep into the mysterious fathoms of the universe and accomplish your purpose by hook or by crook, even if it means going down to the bottom of the ocean to meet your doom.

With each drop of tear that we shed in our times of excruciating pain, our brain constructs majestic new cellular connections to aid in the pursuit of our passion - in the pursuit of truth.

You are surrounded by ignorance, savagery and fanaticism. You live in a society where everyone thinks he/she knows about everything in the whole universe. If you find yourself among those intellectual idiots, then being good and humble may give rise to doubts in your mind about your own ideas. So, you must first learn to distinguish between real and shallow intellect. Then, as a self- preservation tactic, you need to let your pretence of arrogance grow as big as a Dinosaur, so that the fake intellectuals start to realize their true inferiority in front of you.

You must hiss at people who intend to undermine your individuality with their false pride and intellectual stupidity. You must frighten them away, lest they should do you harm. Act like you have a lot of venom inside you, but never inject them into anyone.

Criticisms of a society filled with fools have no power in them to bother the sage that has emerged from the agonizing fire of misery.

You measure success by the humility it takes to see the truth

Paul Bradley Smith

I hope that in victory we are more grateful than proud.

It is not reputation, fame, success or religiosity that glorifies God, it's slavery.

Kingdom of God will surely come upon someone if glory of man leaves him

At the end of it all, it is our relationship with people that will determine whether they will share in our pain if we fall into dangers.

Israelmore Ayivor

Beware ! Discipline goes to two different directions : success and self glory. Self glory is the biggest failure of life.

Be nice to people on the way up. Not because you might meet them on the way back down, but.. because what's the point in going through life being a c**t to everyone

David Alejandro Fearnhead

None of us can accomplish our dreams without the help of others. Is it more important for you to feel superior and self-sufficient than to accomplish your dreams within a community of supporters?

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