Humility Quotes - Page 19

• Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.

  Thomas Brooks

  Men, Joy, Grace

  Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.461

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• There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stupid, Charity, Common

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• I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that He is indeed our Master.

  John Newton

  School, Christ, Masters

  John Newton, John Cecil (1831). “The works of the Rev. John Newton ...: containing, an authentic narrative, etc., letters on religious subjects, cardiphonia, discourses intended for the pulpit, sermons preached in the parish church of Olney, a review of ecclesiastical history, Olney hymns, poems, Messiah, occasional sermons, and tracts, to which are prefixed, Memoirs of his life, &c. by the Rev. John Cecil”, p.315

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• There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are in effect returning to the ground of our being.

  David Whyte

  Latin, Pride, Roots

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• Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses.

  Martin Gardner

  Crazy, Science, Tolerance

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• It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.

  Saul Bellow

  Feet, Soldier, Disgrace

  SAUL BELLOW (1944). “DANGLING MAN”

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• True humility scarcely ever utters words of humility.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Catholic, True Humility

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• Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.

  Rachel Carson

  Lust, Sides, Emotion

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Do not be ashamed of being poor, or of asking alms. Receive what is given you with humility, and accept a refusal meekly. Frequently call to mind Our Lady's journey into Egypt with her Holy Child, and of all the poverty, contempt and suffering they endured. If you follow their example you will indeed be rich amid your poverty.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Children, Journey, Egypt

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “Introduction to the Devout Life”, p.211, Catholic Way Publishing

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• There is certainly no single remedy for this condition and I am offering no panacea. But it seems reasonable to believe — and I do believe — that the more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.

  Rachel Carson

  Believe, Reality, Race

  Rachel Carson (2011). “Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson”, p.94, Beacon Press

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• Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it,
  Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee,
  Proud of my night since thou with moons dost slake it,
  Not to partake thy passion, my humility.

  Emily Dickinson

  Pain, Passion, Heart

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2018, Delphi Classics

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• The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly or mean.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Mean

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• The reality is that everybody makes mistakes. The issue isn't whether you will make them, it's what you will do about them. It's whether you will choose the path of humility and courage or the path of ego and pride.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Mistake, Pride

  Stephen M. R. Covey (2008). “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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• How does humility manifest itself in leadership and in life? A humble person is more concerned about what is right than about being right, about acting on good ideas than having the ideas, about embracing new truth than defending outdated position, about building the team than exalting self, about recognizing contribution than being recognized for making it.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Team, Humble

  Stephen M. R. Covey (2008). “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• Watch nature, because it is your greatest teacher. It moves and flows and moves on again. There is an incredible beauty out there in the mountains, in the forests, to teach you it's silence, it's beauty, it's humility. Stay aligned to that.

  Stuart Wilde

  Inspirational, Teacher, Nature

  Stuart Wilde (1996). “Infinite Self: 33 Steps to Reclaiming Your Inner Power”, p.120, Hay House, Inc

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• It's only with that absolute humility and purity that you can make friends with God; because, otherwise, you're just too busy with all your desires.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Desire, Busy

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• Humility is the situation of the earth. It's there silent and accepting everything and in a miraculous way making out of all the refuse new richness...transforming corruption itself into a power of life and a new possibility of creativeness, open to the sunshine, open to the rain, ready to receive any seed we sow and capable of bringing thirtyfold, sixtyfold, a hundredfold out of every seed.

  Anthony of Sourozh

  Rain, Sunshine, Land

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• Humility comes from how you come at the world. Confidence comes from how you come at yourself.

  Greg Jackson

  Mma, World

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• Humility is the first rule of martial arts. Either you learn humility quickly, or you leave because your ego can't handle losing repeatedly.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Art, Mma, Ego

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• I bow to my opponent in praise and thanks. After the fight is a time for humility, acceptance and analysis, no matter the result.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Fighting, Acceptance, Mma

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• Another observation, in a former letter of yours, has not escaped my remembrance – the three lessons which a minister has to learn: 1. Humility. 2. Humility. 3. Humility. How long are we learning the true nature of Christianity!

  Charles Simeon

  Long, Remembrance, Three

  Charles Simeon (1848). “Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. Charles Simeon, Late Senior Fellow of King's College and Minister of Trinity Church, Cambridge: With a Selection from His Writings and Correspondence”, p.60

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• We need to approach the Bible each day with a spirit of deep humility, recognizing that our understanding of spiritual truth is at best incomplete and to some extent inaccurate ... we should approach the Scriptures in humility and expect the Spirit to humble us even further as we continue being taught by Him from His Word.

  Jerry Bridges

  Spiritual, Humble, Understanding

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• Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies--misguided beliefs that create suffering, that rationalize violence, that have endangered our nation and our future. His argument for the morality, the honesty, and the humility of atheism is galvanizing. It is a relief that someone has spoken so frankly, with such passion yet such rationality. Now when the subject arises, as it inevitably does, I can simply say: Read Sam Harris’ Letter to a Christian Nation.

  Janna Levin

  Christian, Religious, Honesty

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• What is childlike humility? It’s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda.

  Todd Burpo

  Agendas, Guile, Childlike

  Todd Burpo (2014). “Heaven is for Real Movie Edition: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back”, p.74, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It's strange how deserts turn us into believers. I believe in walking in a landscape of mirages, because you learn humility. I believe in living in a land of little water because life is drawn together. And I believe in the gathering of bones as a testament to spirits that have moved on. If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Believe, Self, Land

  Terry Tempest Williams (2008). “Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert”, p.77, Vintage

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