Humility Quotes - Page 7

Goldwater had never even considered a non-Arizonan. Like a man on his deathbed, he wanted to be surrounded only by friends.

A confused and weak man hides his weakness and uncertainty with fiery speeches.

I write poetry, worry, smile,laughsleepcontinue for a whilejust like most of usjust like all of us;sometimes I want to hug allMankind on earthand say,god damn all this that they've brought down on us,we are brave and goodeven though we are selfishand kill each other andkill ourselves,we are the peopleborn to kill and die and weep in dark roomsand love in dark rooms,and wait, andwait and wait and wait.we are the people.we are nothingmore.

Charles Bukowski

JFK to RFK: To survive in politics, you sometimes have to be willing to make fun of yourself.

There is no middle ground for the selfless and the selfish.

It is not great counts God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

My own spirit, soul, and body are my nearest machinery for sacred service.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness and hypocrisy.

The very precariousness of weather excites a large amount of earnest prayer.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I like to introduce myself, because THEN I can get in all the facts." The usually self-deprecating John Hay on the ironic formality of signing his own commission as Secretary of State.

John Taliaferro

He had no desire to grandstand for his country or himself.

John Taliaferro

If he could be hard on kings and cabinets, he was invariably kind to his colleagues.

John Taliaferro

Possibly, there was something to be said for the intellectual discipline of second-guessing what you thought was true.

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Don't think you are irreplaceable, or the world will end when you are gone

Bangambiki Habyarimana

The more unworthy you feel yourself to be, the more evidence have you that nothing but unspeakable love could have led the Lord Jesus to save such a soul as yours. The more demerit you feel, the clearer is the display of the abounding love of God in having chosen you, and called you, and made you an heir of bliss.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I'm not trying to tell you," he said, "that only educated and scholarly men are able to contribute something valuable to the world. It's not so. But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they're brilliant and creative to begin with — which, unfortunately, is rarely the case—tend to leave infinitely more valuable records behind them than men do who are merely brilliant and creative. They tend to express themselves more clearly, and they usually have a passion for following their thoughts through to the end. And--most important—nine times out of ten they have more humility than the unscholarly thinker.

After the original rapture of conversion had settled in, (Bob) Dylan backed away from his obviously Christian lyrics and returned to his more metaphorical use of language.

. A gentle tug on the leash and I would adjust myself quickly. I never questioned it. I knew that she knew where we were going and I never once looked back. Sometimes God does that too. He reminds us not to get too headstrong so that we remain humble and attentive to Him. He knows where He is taking us.

Size and elaboration were often mistaken for importance.

Stephen L. Carter

In brokenness comes beauty, divine fragility.

MercyMe

Foolish defiance was his lifelong response to being ill.

While humility feels weak, the truth is that humility is a sign of great strength. Humility is about putting ego aside. The word humility comes from a Latin word humilitas, which means grounded or low. When we are "grounded", we aren't easily swayed. We stand firm in who we are, who we belong to, and who we are committed to be going forward. A grounded person isn't looking for recognition because she is at peace with her worth in God's eyes.

I've grown more OK with mystery as I've gotten older.

Quite possibly, this depressive illness was the familiar sort that grew from perfectionist expectations.

Andrew Carnegie was an inventor only in the sense that he adopted and adapted the discoveries of others.

He had the ruthlessness of uninterrupted success.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Let us retreat when we can, not when we must. Lord Chatham

Barbara W. Tuchman

Happiness is always on the other side of being teachable.

Shannon L. Alder

Folly is a child of power.

Barbara W. Tuchman

To be great, practice simplicity and express humility.

Debasish Mridha

Those who consider themselves good teachers probably aren't.

I love the vastness of the ocean. I love its serenity, tranquility, humility, and purifying power.

Debasish Mridha

It would be better to be deceived a hundred times than to live a life of suspicion.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

God doesn't want meerly action but hearts driving action.

One world leader warned another "the error of relying on the capability you have rather than developing the capability you need.

Those that are too refined to be simple need to be refined again.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

He was the sort of man who only wanted to be told what he already assumed was true.

Stephen L. Carter

Purple prose attracts attention more than converts.

It's one thing to admire a man's work. It's another to get your picture in the paper doing it." General Clayton

M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team

Policy was not reconsidered because the governing group had no habit of purposeful consultation.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Are you dedicated to your patient or your ego?

M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team

Effective love is rarely efficient.

He found his voice in the silences, where he could sing as loud and as long as he wanted with no one to complain of it.

Geraldine Brooks

We see a first generation going through adolescence knowing their every misstep, all the awkward gestures of their youth, are being frozen in a computer's memory.

Underestimation has its uses.

Humility and open-mindedness are a shield to keep your foot out of your mouth.

Laura Gilfillan

The author says resilience is the ability to move rob a preferred state to an expanded list of alternatives.

Regular, modest failures are actually essential to many forms of resilience.

Resilient systems fail gracefully. A perfect system is often most fragile.

Apart from childhood and crisis, prayers have a way of being abstracted from the homely and distinctive details that are part and parcel of our ordinary and daily life.

Eugene H. Peterson

He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson.

David would wear no purple cloth, no symbols of his kingship, when he went to greet the ark. In its presence, we were all of us servants.

Geraldine Brooks

The truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind. Emily Dickinson

Eugene H. Peterson

There are so many ways to think about almost everything. And none of them is nearly as round as reality.

It is a sign of intellectual maturity to always crawl to conclusions.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Awful momentum makes carrying through easier than calling off folly.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Weakness is not the problem, but my delusion of my strengths is.

Paul David Tripp

He was vain and tended to surround himself with intellectual and moral pygmies.

Stephen L. Carter

Something greater than me was happening. And yet, it was happening to me.

The fate of warnings in political affairs is to be futile when the recipient wishes otherwise.

Barbara W. Tuchman

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