Humility Quotes
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I do know this about pride: pride is tiring, a cruel task-master, a complicator, a destroyer. Humility, in contrast, relaxes, refreshes, relieves, simplifies, renews. To the degree that becoming childlike includes becoming humble, humility releases childlike play, laughter, sleep, smiles, fun. Our pride forces us to take ourselves so seriously, which leads us to take others less seriously and God less seriously still.
Brian D. McLaren
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Two great virtues . . . give a man power with the heavens - integrity and purity of character. Let a man possess these, let his heart be true and unflinching, let his life be pure, and, if we add to these humility, he is protected against a multitude of weaknesses and can resist a host of temptations. We all have our weaknesses; God has permitted them that we might be taught humility in ourselves and charity towards others.
Wilford Woodruff
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Humility is measured by how quickly you can admit that you are wrong.
Eric Ludy
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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
Jane Austen
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Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
Rachel Carson
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The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness.
Mahatma Gandhi
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What is childlike humility? It’s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda.
Todd Burpo
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The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.
Dalai Lama
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Reverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and hearing the good Dhamma, this is the best good luck.
Gautama Buddha
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Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature.
Mahatma Gandhi
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It's sort of an invigorating and enlivening experience. I feel very confident and very excited, and perhaps an overshadowing emotion is one of great humility at this point.
John Young
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The fruit of the Spirit is fundamentally relational. Rather than originating with us, it flows to us from our union with Christ, and it flows beyond us to bring us into fellowship with others. The secret of this flow - and our unity with God and others - is humility.
Jerry Bridges
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We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.
Freya Stark
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In ethics, there is a humility; moralists are usually righteous.
John Berger
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If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it.
C. S. Lewis
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Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone's control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.
Joanne Rowling
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Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility.
William Penn
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I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two qualities: humility and the suspension of the sense of humour.
E. M. Forster
