Humility Quotes
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When allowed to return to the class, your feelings of humility and lonesomeness will render you a much finer student and person.
Naomi Shihab Nye
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Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.
William Gurnall
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Jesus' life as a foot-washing servant would eventually lead to the adoption of humility as a widely admired virtue.
John Ortberg
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There's a belief that you're supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don't see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.
Joel Osteen
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Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness.
William Shenstone
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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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The really tough thing about humility is you can't brag about it.
Gene Brown
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Humility has to do with trying to be a vessel of purposes you're content to understand as not your own.
David Milch
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I have observed that religious practice is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness itself. I have also suggested that, whether a person practices religion or not, the spiritual qualities of love and compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, humility and so on are indispensable.
Dalai Lama
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Our knowledge and understanding of nonhuman animals is polluted far more than we acknowledge by our belief in our own superiority, our unrecognized cultural programming, and our separation from nature.
Will Tuttle
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Cheerfully fessing up to our failures turns crazy mind off, humility and compassion on. I learned this in a karate dojo that had a strange tradition. Everyone there loved recounting failure stories, and after an evening of smacking one another, we'd sit and have a beer while the students swapped tales of martial arts disaster.
Martha Beck
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It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.
Rachel Carson
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Beginning of all knowledge comes from humility.
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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And now we're coming to understand, I think, spiritually in this nation that there is as much power in the soul as there is in group force. There is as much power in listening and understanding and humility as there is, for instance, in military action.
Marianne Williamson
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A good trader has to have three things: a chronic inability to accept things at face value, to feel continuously unsettled, and to have humility.
Michael Steinhardt
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The humility of Jesus can be seen in the crib, in the exile to Egypt, in the hidden life, in the inability to make people understand Him, in the desertion of His apostles, in the hatred of His persecutors, in all the terrible suffering and death of His Passion, and now in His permanent state of humility in the tabernacle, where He has reduced Himself to such a small particle of bread that the priest can hold Him with two fingers. The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.
Mother Teresa
