Humility Quotes
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Whatever hinders us from receiving a blessing that God is willing to bestow upon us is not humility, but the mockery of it. A genuine humility will ever feel the need of the largest measures of grace, and will be perfected just in the degree in which that grace is bestowed. The truly humble man will seek to be filled with all the fullness of God, knowing that when so filled there is not the slightest place for pride or for self.
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Humility comes from understanding that the obstacles in front of you are not going to go away.
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After all, to get the whole universe totally wrong in the face of clear evidence for over 75 years merits monumental embarrassment and should induce a modicum of humility.
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Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin experiments.
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Higher position means greater service and an apportunity to purely represent Srila Prabhupada. Hence our management must be based on humility and tolerance.
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The root of all virtue and grace, of all faith and acceptable worship, is that we know that we have nothing but what we receive, and bow in deepest humility to wait upon God for it.
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When we presume that we are better than people who need structure and guidance, we lack one of the most crucial ingredients for change: humility.
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The self says, I am; The heart says, I am less; The spirit says, you are Nothing.
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People are paying no attention to the best act of worship: Humility.
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In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them.
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False humility is more insulting than open pride!
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Sometimes we shrink from leadership because our pride makes us afraid of failure. That's not humility.
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To crave wealth and honor, to demand power, to pile up riches, to gather all those vanities which seem to make for pomp and empty display, that is our furious passion and our unbounded desire.On the other hand, we fear and abhor poverty, obscurity, and humility, and we seek to avoid them by all possible means.
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The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.
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One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.
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No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.
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True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.
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Humility, reverence, compassion, forbearance, sacrifice and self-control are the qualities that reveal the outcome of the true education.
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Sir" said Mrs. Meade indignantly. "There are NO deserters in the Confederate army." "I beg your pardon," said Rhett with mock humility. "I meant those thousands on furlough who FORGOT to rejoin their regiments and those who have been over their wounds for six months but who remain at home, going about their usual business or doing the spring plowing.
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The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
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You cannot produce trust just like you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not.
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I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful.
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Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.
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Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.
