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• I would instill in my team an attitude of role modeling. We run to teach other people the value of physical activity. In all things, be humble and appreciative; hurt no one; help anyone you can.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Running, Hurt, Attitude

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

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• The stories I respect most aren't those with the rich, dense prose, but those which achieve a rich, deep effect with simple little nothing-sentences, lines I won't possibly remember, because they simply functioned, didn't draw attention to themselves, were properly humble.

  Stephen Graham Jones

  Simple, Attention, Stories

  Source: slushpile.net

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• Most of the writers I like just intimidate and humble me but in that there's a good deal of inspiration to be had as well.

  Henry Rollins

  Inspiration, Intimidating, Deals

  "#tbt An Interview with Henry Rollins". Interview with Eric Stein, www.brothersdepaul.com. January 7, 2015.

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• To me the thought of oneself as low and humble is a sin and ignorance.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Ignorance, Sin

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2832, Manonmani Publishers

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• We notice the person who is for ever bowing and fussily servile, and perhaps say, How humble he is! But the truly humble person escapes notice: the world does not know him.

  Tito Colliander

  Doe, Asceticism, World

  Tito Colliander (1982). “Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth”, p.26, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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• Many rich and powerful men would pay dearly to see the Lord or His Most Pure Mother, but God does not appear in riches, but in the humble heart... Every one of the poorest men can be humbles and come to know God. It need neither money nor reputation to come to know God, but only humility.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Mother

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• The Lord does not show Himself to a proud soul. The proud soul, no matter how many books it reads, will never know God, since by its pride it does not give place for the grace of the Holy Spirit, while God is known only by the humble soul.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• The humble soul is blessed. The Lord loves her. The Mother of God is higher than all in humility, and therefore all races bless her on earth, while the heavenly powers serve her. And the Lord has given us this blessed Mother of His as a defender and helper.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Mother

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• Consider that the Holy Spirit lives in the spiritual father, and He will tell you what to do. But if you think that the spiritual father live negligently, and that the Holy Spirit can't live in him, you will suffer mightily for such a thought, and the Lord will humble you, and you will straightway fall into delusion.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Spiritual

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• If you are remembering evil against someone, then pray for him; and as you remove through prayer the pain of the remembrance of the evil he has done, you will stop the advance of the passion. And when you have attained brotherly love and love for mankind, you will completely cast this passion out of your soul. Then when someone else does evil to you, be affectionate and humble toward him, and treat him kindly, and you will deliver him from this passion.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Whoever wants to approach prayer without a guide, and proudly thinks that he can learn from books, and won't go to an elder, is already halfway into delusion. But the Lord helps the humble, and if there is no experienced guide, and he goes to a confessor, whoever he may be, then the Lord will cover him because of his humility.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Walk humbly but walk confidently. People want to follow confident, humble leaders.

  Jeff Henderson

  Leadership, Christian, People

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• An accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. At first he is stunned if the accession be sudden, and is very humble and very grateful. Then he begins to speak a little louder, people think him more sensible, and soon he thinks himself so.

  Richard Cecil

  Grateful, Men, Thinking

  Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt (1816). “The Works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ...: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.326

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• It horribly skews the meaning of the cross when contemporary prophets of self-esteem say that the cross is a witness to my infinite worth. The biblical perspective is that the cross in a witness to the infinite worth of God's glory, and a witness to the immensity of the sin of my pride.

  John Piper

  Self Esteem, Biblical, Pride

  John Piper (2004). “The Supremacy of God in Preaching”, p.35, Baker Books

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• If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.

  Ted Turner

  Humility, Perfect, Would Be

  Todd Wilkinson, Ted Turner (2013). “Last Stand: Ted Turner's Quest to Save a Troubled Planet”, p.57, Rowman & Littlefield

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• A spiritual prayer is a humble prayer. Prayer is the asking of an alms, which requires humility... The lower the heart descends, the higher the prayer ascends.

  Thomas Watson

  Spiritual, Prayer, Heart

  Thomas Watson, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “The Godly Man's Picture”, Lulu.com

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• Humility is like a tree, whose root when it sets deepest in the earth rises higher, and spreads fairer and stands surer, and lasts longer, and every step of its descent is like a rib of iron.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Humility, Iron, Roots

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Life of Christ”, p.527

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• Whoever is humble to men for God's sake, may God exalt his eminence.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Men, May, Sake

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• There is nothing I dread so much as the division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our constitution.

  John Adams

  Party, Government, Two

  John Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.511

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• You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . . . . Four years have already past away since you left your native land, and this rural Cottage-Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to. But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof, and bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.

  Abigail Adams

  Family, Country, Sweet

  Abigail Adams (2016). “Abigail Adams: Letters”, p.376, Library of America

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• In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.

  John Bright

  House, Library, Precious Possessions

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• The humble man makes room for progress; the proud man believes he is already there.

  Ed Parker

  Art, Believe, Men

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• Humble us, O God, under your mighty hand, and let us rise, not as professionals, but as witnesses and partakers of the sufferings of Christ.

  John Piper

  Hands, Suffering, Christ

  John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”, p.4, B&H Publishing Group

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• Be humble because until the sun with all its grandeur, let the moon shine.

  Bob Marley

  Moon, Shining, Sun

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• What will it profit a man if he gains his cause and silences his adversary if at the same time he loses that humble, tender frame of spirit in which the Lord delights, and to which the promise of his presence is made?

  John Newton

  Men, Silence, Promise

  John Newton (1808). “The works of the rev. John Newton”, p.246

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