Humility Quotes
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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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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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People are paying no attention to the best act of worship: Humility.
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Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.
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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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Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.
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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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The self says, I am; The heart says, I am less; The spirit says, you are Nothing.
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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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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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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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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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You have to learn humility. First of all you have to be humble people. Unless and until you have a large heart you can never humble down. You have to be an extremely humble person. Humility doesn't mean that you bow to a person who is dominating, it never means that. But it means a strength within you. The person who is weak can never be humble.
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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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The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.
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Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.
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You cannot produce trust just like you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not.
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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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Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love.
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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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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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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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I spent a lot of time with President Mandela supporting his efforts in the peace process in Burundi. The thing that impressed me the most was his humility.
