Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes About Humility

Quotes about: Humility

• The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Faith, Humility, Men

• Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Religious, Attitude, Humility

• To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Love, Life, Sex

  "Ideals and Doubts" by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Illinois Law Review, 1915.

• With all humility, I think, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Selfish, Humility, Eye

  Speech to the Bar Association of Boston. "Speeches". Book by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., p. 85, 1934.

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