Humility Quotes
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We believe in humility and integrity, the spirit of one people, bound together under God. We understand that the Constitution was written to control and regulate the government, not the people.
Allen West -
To most people, paranoia carries a negative connotation. I believe it is one of the most valuable attributes a leader can have. It is about self-reflection and having the courage, humility, and discipline to constantly ask uncomfortable questions that can potentially poke holes in your strategy and challenge your conventional thinking.
Dinesh Paliwal
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Humility is considered an un-masculine quality.
David Duchovny -
I've always had a sense of groundedness as a person. I think that's helped me. My mother sort of beat into me the notion of humility, and I think my focus has always been on the right things or the things that I'm passionate about, which is just simply the work.
Elijah Wood -
There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.
Edward Hopper -
A virtuous man concentrates on his own work, not that of others.
Zengzi -
The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly yoke.
Ximénès Doudan -
Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.
Paulo Coelho
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The indispensible judicial requisite is intellectual humility.
Felix Frankfurter -
There's a part of martial arts where we need humility and respect.
Eddie Alvarez -
Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.
Johannes Tauler -
Never curse a fall. The ground is where humility lives.
Yasmin Mogahed -
It is often found that modesty and humility not only do no good, but are positively hurtful, when they are shown to the arrogant who have taken up a prejudice against you, either from envy or from any other cause.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
Those times when I play on stage in front of lots of people, it's such an unusual and borderline unhealthy process, even though I love it and I really do it with humility. I don't have serfs getting me grapes after, or things like that.
Gavin Rossdale Bush
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Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
David Mallet -
A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.
Lawrence G. Lovasik -
Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.
Bill Vaughan -
Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.
Stephen Covey -
We tend to lack humility toward love, to patronize it rather than bow before it, to put mundane considerations before the emotional need to hold someone in our arms.
Marianne Williamson
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All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power. If you want to govern the people, you must place yourself below them. If you want to lead the people, you must learn how to follow them. The Master is above the people, and no one feels oppressed. She goes ahead of the people, and no one feels manipulated. The whole world is grateful to her. Because she competes with no one, no one can compete with her.
Lao Tzu -
You cheated!” He looked at her, wide-eyed with feigned outrage. “I beg your pardon. If you were a man, I would call you out for that accusation.” “And I assure you, my lord, that I would ride forth victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness.” “Are you quoting the Bible to me?” “Indeed,” she said primly, the portrait of piousness. “While gambling.” “What better location to attempt to reform one such as you?
Sarah MacLean -
Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.
Dag Hammarskjold -
There is no gardening without humility
Alfred Austin