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| Humble Pie... |
| for quotations that abound in humility (well...sort-of). |
| "Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered." --- Helena Petrovna Hahn Blavatsky "Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory." --- Douglas MacArthur "Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility." --- Saint Augustine "Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all." --- William Temple "Humility is always proof of intelligence." --- Rael "Humility is the ladder to divine understanding." --- Author Unknown "Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self; it is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that." --- Charles Haddon Spurgeon "I believe that the first test of a truly great man is his humility. I do not mean by humility, doubt of his own powers. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not in them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful." --- John Ruskin "It is always the secure who are humble." --- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." --- Jesus Christ, Bible, Mark 10:25 "It is easy to be extremely cruel, magnanimous, humble or self-sacrificing when we see ourselves as actors in a performance." --- Eric Hoffer "Many people believe that humility is the opposite of pride, when, in fact, it is a point of equilibrium. The opposite of pride is actually a lack of self esteem. A humble person is totally different from a person who cannot recognize and appreciate himself as part of this worlds� marvels." --- Rabino Nilton Bonder "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind." --- Albert Einstein "Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility." --- Johathan Edwards "The antidote for pride is humility." --- Ezra Taft Benson "The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly." --- Jim Rohn "The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility." --- Jesus Christ, Bible, Prov. 15:33 "The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it." --- James Matthew Barrie "The really tough thing about humility is you can't brag about it." --- Gene Brown "To be humble is to be teachable." --- Richard G. Scott "To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness." --- Benjamin Franklin "Whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted." --- Jesus Christ, Bible, Matt. 23:12 "Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven." --- Jesus Christ, Bible, Matt. 18:4 "[Young people] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things - and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning - all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently." --- Aristotle Quotes on other topics can be found here. To submit your favorite humble quotes, write to: [email protected] |