Humility Quotes - Page 6

[T]he road to character is built by confronting your own weakness.

It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure) surrender he continues to serve and carry out petty orders in loyal acquiescence.

Nixon under pressure turned only to reporters from publications already favorable to him; Kennedy, in trouble, turned to those most critical and dubious of him, and if anything tended to take those already for him a bit for granted.

David Halberstam

He may have confused honor with with with ruthlessness.

They (the media) found little quality of depth to him, that when she said on the platform with that which he said to them in private. The qualities of introspection and reflectiveness that they particularly treasured were missing.

David Halberstam

One of the ladies asked about that awful Bobby Kennedy, and Goldwater responded by speaking about the attorney general with touching affection. (Mary) McGrory recalled how Jack Kennedy behaved at a similar stage in his campaign: spouting statistics, attacking carefully chosen enemies and puffing all the right friends, quoting dead Greeks, never cracking a joke lest he remind the voters how young he was.

Pedestals aren't safe...one wrong move and a nasty tumble is sure to follow. Humility is a great grounding tool.

Humility and brokenness before God is the key for Him to dwell in us.

In the cosmos of time, there's not a cocksucker in this room who is more than a fart in the wind!

Daniel S. Peña

I don’t like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didn't know.

The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph into arrogance that Death loves to prove unfounded.

A commander's pride got his soldiers dead.

Students in the school of prayer never graduate from the school of the Gospel.

We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinions because we very often differ from ourselves.

We never move on from the cross. We only get a more profound understanding of the cross.

The only path to real promotion is to humble yourself and make yourself of no reputation and then begin to give yourself to other people and serve them.

It is vital that we are equipped with the humility to understand that changing the world and keeping innovation alive require that we change ourselves.

Whitney Johnson

Excellence will give you the recognition you crave for, but humility will keep you standing longer than expected.

A servant leader can always come down to the level of the one he is serving

God always exalts the humble.

True knowledge should not produce pride; it should produce humility...Because the more you know, the more you know how much you don't know.

Hubert (Humphrey) prepares for a major address by taking a deep breath.

President Lyndon B. Johnson

Do not confuse humility with humiliation.

A man is as old as his arteries and as young as his ideas.

As with many tragedies, our story opens in a moment of triumph.

Dan Jones

His knowledge was deep, but his pride has grown with it.

Gratitude is like the stem of the flower

Darwies ibn Abdullah Soeker

Richard Nixon's conversation was "loaded with so many stories of all the foreign dignitaries he'd called upon in his career that he sounded like a guy who had pinioned his neighbors into watching his vacation slides.

I am a neighbour king to stretch my branches over him, just as Toghrul sheltered me when I was a weed-stalk next to a strong tree.

Humility is a peace that accepts one's strengths and limitations.

He did have his beliefs, chiefly in his own genius.

We could never agree about Boogie and I didn't share Miriam's reverence for professors. In fact, just in case I haven't mentioned it before, the pride of my office wall is my framed high-school graduation certificate, lit from above. Miriam has reproached me for it. "Take it down, darling," she once pleaded. But it still hangs there.

Mordecai Richler

Live humbly and for the moment.

Pride makes easy decisions hard. Humility makes hard decisions easy.

...life is a continual process of learning, working hard, rising up, and then being humbled. Sliding over, then sliding over again. And again.

He was top-heavy with conceit.

I mean it takes a certain kind of maturity to live in the South these days. You don't have it yet, but you have a shadow of the beginnings of it. You haven't the humbleness of mind-" "I thought the fear of the Lord was the beginning of wisdom.""It's the same thing. Humility.

Bonhoeffer did not expect his life to be a tidy edifice of perfection.

Only secure people can serve. Insecure people are always worrying about how they appear to others. They fear exposure of their weaknesses and hide beneath layers of protective pride and pretensions. The more insecure you are, the more you will want people to serve you, and the more you will need their approval.

A humble person is comfortable in their own skin.

Lippmann was very good at staying young, at not aging and becoming a prisoner of his past experiences.

David Halberstam

People who are easily embarrassed – those who blush too often and too soon – usually end up retreating from excellence.

To wish to withstand the Holy Spirit would be the one unforgivable sin.

Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success.

The Book that made the nation was destroying the nation.

You can recognize a saint by the wounds they don't disguise.

God gave us feelings to feel them, not to judge them. He is the Judge.

The more broken you are, the more light gets through.

I do not desire power, but rather to submit to the will of Elamm’.

Benita J. Prins

There is no such thing as an independent Christian.

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

Culture is nested in context, not genes.

Thomas L. Friedman

When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?

John Maynard Keynes

Soft power is quiet persistence.

We must steel ourselves against utopias and be content with a slightly better state.

As she rounded a corner one of her favourite songs came on the radio, and sunlight filtered through the trees the way it does with lace curtains, reminding her of her grandmother, and tears began to slide down her cheeks. Not for her grandmother, who was then still very much among the living, but because she felt an enveloping happiness to be alive, a joy made stronger by the certainty that someday it would all come to an end. It overwhelmed her, made her pull the car to the side of the road. Afterwards she felt a little foolish, and never spoke to anyone about it. Now, however, she knows she wasn’t being foolish. She realizes that for no particular reason she stumbled into the core of what it is to be human. It’s a rare gift to understand that your life is wondrous, and that it won’t last forever.

Steven Galloway

I was only 44, which is childhood philosophy.

Development is a voluntary process. You need a positive decision to make the right steps, but it starts with introspection.

Thomas L. Friedman

Unlike most fine writers, he wasn't in love with his own words.

Douglas Brinkley

Community in the American university is paradoxically a private and individual decision.

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