William S. Burroughs Quotes

Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.

William S. Burroughs

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• A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.

  

  Han Fei
  • Law
  • Virtue
  • Himself

• May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • May
  • True
  • Humility

• People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Life
  • Peace

• I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Simple
  • Individual
  • Humility

• Compassion is not a popular virtue.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Popular
  • Compassion
  • Virtue

• I talk about millennials with a healthy dose of humility, as I'm a card-carrying member of Generation X. But I have daily interaction with young people at Dana Perino & Co., through my Minute Mentoring organization, with digital friends on social media, and especially at Fox News.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Friends
  • Daily

• It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Time
  • Real
  • Truth

• A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Like
  • Gold
  • Virtue

• If there is one thing I have learned on this incredible journey we call life, it is this: the sign of a truly successful individual is humility.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Life
  • Journey
  • Humility

• There is one common thing in superstars - enthusiasm and humility towards their work. Off sets, they are big stars for others, and they carry themselves the way they want to. When they are working, they are not stars.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Work
  • Stars
  • Humility

• I am a method actor, but I'm also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don't have humility, whether they are heroes or villains, are hard to relate to. All characters in every aspect of what we do should have humility. If they don't, then they're a cartoon character.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Film
  • Actor
  • Humility

• A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Good
  • God
  • Parents

• If you have doubt about a person's humility or smarts, don't ignore it. More often than not, there is something causing that doubt.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Doubt
  • Humility
  • Ignore

• Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Important
  • Courage
  • Humility

• Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Beauty
  • Virtue
  • Mask

• Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Good
  • Personality
  • Humility

• Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Happiness
  • Virtue
  • Reward

• Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • History
  • Progress
  • Virtue

• I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Live
  • Remember
  • Future

• A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life.

  

  R.K. Narayan
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Profound

• Loneliness is a required course for leadership.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Leadership
  • Loneliness

• I don't mind people putting us down, because if everybody really liked us, it would be a bore. You've got to have people putting you down. It doesn't give any edge to it if everybody just falls flat on their face saying, "You're great." We enjoy some of the criticisms as well, they're quite funny; some of the clever criticisms, not the ones that don't know anything, but some of the clever ones are quite fun.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Enjoy
  • Criticism

• Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Virtue
  • Humility
  • Exhibits