Humbleness Quotes

• Be like a river in generosity and giving help. Be like a sun in tenderness and pity. Be like night when covering other's faults. Be like a dead when furious and angry. Be like earth in modesty and humbleness. Be like a sea in tolerance. Be as you are or as you look like.

  Rumi

  Night, Sea, Rivers

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• Humbleness, forgiveness, clarity and love are the dynamics of freedom. They are the foundations of authentic power.

  Gary Zukav

  And Love, Foundation, Dynamics

  Gary Zukav (1999). “The Seat of the Soul”, G K Hall & Company

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• The rains of Life's Blessings cannot gather on mountaintops of pride, but flow easily into valleys of humbleness.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Rain, Pride, Blessing

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• What I pray for is the spirit of humbleness, and, the spirit of me doing what God is asking me to do - not what I individually want to do. So, if I'm making a "politically incorrect" statement to the masses - this is what God put in me.

  Warren Ballentine

  Asking, Want, Spirit

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• A great man is always willing to be little.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confidence, Spiritual, Integrity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Compensation and Self-Reliance”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

  Mother Teresa

  Lonely, Women, Loneliness

  Mother Teresa, Roger (frère) (1989). “Mary, Mother of Reconciliations”, Paulist Pr

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• It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

  Saint Augustine

  Humility, Angel, Pride

  "Manipulus Florum". Book edited by Thomas Hibernicus,

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• You reap what you sow — not something else, but that. An act of love makes the soul more loving. A deed of humbleness deepens humbleness. The thing reaped is the very thing sown, multiplied a hundred fold. You have sown a seed of life, you reap life everlasting.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Soul, Deeds, Hundred

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.168

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• 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

  Inspirational Life, Philosophical, Humility

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• Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

  Saint Augustine

  Wisdom, Fake People, Humility

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• The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Love, Life, Family

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1975). “De officiis”, Loeb Classical Library

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• The ego can exist only if you take yourself and everything seriously. Nothing kills the ego like playfulness, like laughter. When you start taking life as fun, the ego has to die, it cannot exist anymore. Ego is illness; it needs an atmosphere of sadness to exist. Seriousness creates the sadness in you. Sadness is a necessary soil for the ego. Hence your saints are so serious, for the simple reason that they are the most egoistic people on the earth. They may be trying to be humble, but they are very proud of their humbleness. They take their humbleness very seriously.

  Rajneesh

  Laughter, Fun, Sadness

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• The mercy of forgiveness is brought from the strength to accept any situation given and faced. Spiritual independence and humbleness toward life makes life like a flowing river of release. What happens will happen anyways, and everybody can make mistakes. The important thing is to learn how to make a better future from the mistake.

  Hiroko Sakai

  Spiritual, Mistake, Rivers

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• A true religion will have the humbleness to admit that only a few things are known, much more is unknown, and something will always remain unknowable. That 'something' is the target of the whole spiritual search. You cannot make it an object of knowledge, but you can experience it, you can drink of it, you can have the taste of it - it is existential.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Spiritual, Target

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• Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending.

  Saint Augustine

  Humility, Clouds, Wish

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• When you're hurt or angry, let go by tapping into your humbleness. You want people to remember you for your grace.

  Stevie Nicks

  Letting Go, Hurt, Remember You

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• The humbleness of a warrior is not the humbleness of the beggar. The warrior lowers his head to no one, but at the same time, he doesn't permit anyone to lower his head to him. The beggar, on the other hand, falls to his knees at the drop of a hat and scrapes the floor to anyone he deems to be higher; but at the same time, he demands that someone lower than him scrape the floor for him.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Time, Attitude, Fall

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• Sow the seeds of life — humbleness, pure-heartedness, love; and in the long eternity which lies before the soul, every minutest grain will come up again with an increase of thirty, sixty, or a hundred fold.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Lying, Long, Soul

  Frederick William Robertson (1857). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second Series”, p.52

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• The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Courage, Humble, Eye

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

  Robert E. Lee

  Life And Love, Men, Gentleman

  "Definition of a Gentleman". Memorandum found in Lee's papers after his death. "Lee the American" by Gamaliel Bradford, p. 233, xroads.virginia.edu. 1912.

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• The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Warrior, Men, Average

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

  Joseph Addison

  Humble, Humility, People

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• The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Inspiring, Art, Teaching

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• There was a moment of extraordinary humbleness and humility and pride, as well, with my father when he turned to me - and I think it was after I played Salieri in "Amadeus" at university. And he said, You're better than I ever was or ever could be, you should do this for profession. You'd have a good time.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Father, Humility, Pride

  "Benedict Cumberbatch: 'Sherlock,' Smaug And Spying". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. May 3, 2012.

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• The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.

  Gary Zukav

  Humble, Soul, Perception

  "Gary Zukav: How to Fall in Love with the Whole World" by Gary Zukav, www.oprah.com. March 24, 2013.

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