Humility Quotes - Page 27

• There was about all the Romans a heroic tone peculiar to ancient life. Their virtues were great and noble, and these virtues madethem great and noble. They possessed a natural majesty that was not put on and taken off at pleasure, as was that of certain eastern monarchs when they put on or took off their garments of Tyrian dye. It is hoped that this is not wholly lost from the world, although the sense of earthly vanity inculcated by Christianity may have swallowed it up in humility.

  Herman Melville

  Taken, Greatness, Vanity

  Herman Melville (2001). “Tales, Poems, and Other Writings”

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• I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.

  Albert Camus

  Memories, Shining, Triumph

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• I have never been disappointed when I asked in a humble and sincere way for God's help. I pray often. I think I pray more often since January 12th.

  Jimmy Carter

  Prayer, Humble, Thinking

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• When I survey the wondrous cross
  On which the Prince of Glory died,
  My richest gain I count but loss,
  And pour contempt on all my pride.

  Isaac Watts

  Pride, Loss, Gains

  1707 Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 'Crucifixion to the World, by the Cross of Christ'.

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• The foundation of humility is truth. The humble man sees himself as he is. If his depreciation of himself were untrue,... it wouldnot be praiseworthy, and would be a form of hypocrisy, which is one of the evils of Pride. The man who is falsely humble, we know from our own experience, is one who is falsely proud.

  Henry Fairlie

  Humble, Pride, Men

  Henry Fairlie (2015). “The Seven Deadly Sins Today”, p.47, University of Notre Dame Pess

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• I love moving water, I love ships, I love the sharp definition, the concentrated humanity, the sublime solitude of life at sea. The dangers of it only make present to us the peril inherent in all existence, which the stupid, ignorant, un-travelled land-worm never discovers; and the art of it, so mathematical, so exact, so rewarding to intelligence, appeals to courage and clears the mind of superstition, while filling it with humility and true religion.

  George Santayana

  Art, Stupid, Moving

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• Pride is a deeply rooted ailment of the soul. The penalty is misery; the remedy lies in the sincere, life-long cultivation of humility, which means true self-evaluation and a proper perspective toward past, present and future.

  Robert Gordis

  Lying, Mean, Pride

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• In spite of the fact that religion looks backward to revealed truth while science looks forward to new vistas and discoveries, both activities produce a sense of awe and a curious mixture of humility and arrogance in their practitioners. All great scientists are inspired by the subtlety and beauty of the natural world that they are seeking to understand. Each new subatomic particle, every unexpected object, produces delight and wonderment. In constructing their theories, physicists are frequently guided by arcane concepts of elegance in the belief that the universe is intrinsically beautiful.

  Paul Davies

  Beautiful, Science, Discovery

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• Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Pride, Evil, Mind

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• Public faith means going public with what’s in your heart, with humility and respect for others, as we speak of the truth of the gospel.

  Timothy Keller

  Heart, Mean, Speak

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• I have never worked for fame or praise, and shall not feel their loss as I otherwise would. I have never for a moment lost sight of the humble life I was born to, its small environments, and the consequently little right I had to expect much of myself, and shall have the less to censure, or upbraid myself with for the failures I must see myself make.

  Clara Barton

  Failure, Humble, Loss

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• The word humility (also human) is derived from the Latin humus, meaning the soil. Perhaps this is not simply because it entails stooping and returning to earthly origins, but also because, as we are rooted in this earth of everyday life, we find in it all the vitality and fertility unnoticed by people who merely tramp on across the surface, drawn by distant landscapes.

  Piero Ferrucci

  Latin, People, Everyday

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• That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors.

  Karl Kraus

  Cheating, Doe, Actors

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• In Islamic belief, knowledge is two-fold. There is that revealed through the Holy Prophet (s.a.s.) and that which man discovers by virtue of his own intellect. Nor do these two involve any contradiction, provided man remembers that his own mind is itself the creation of God. Without this humility, no balance is possible. With it, there are no barriers. Indeed, one strength of Islam has always lain in its belief that creation is not static but continuous, that through scientific and other endeavours, God has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation

  Aga Khan IV

  Islamic, Men, Holy Prophet

  Speech at The Acceptance of The Charter of The Aga Khan University, ismaili.net. March 24, 2010.

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• I have often thought that my work with wildlife taught me the meaning of patience, and my work with the big trees taught me the meaning of humility, and my work with the ice has taught me the meaning of mortality.

  James Balog

  Ice, Tree, Taught

  Source: collider.com

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• Worship is to feel in the heart . . . it is an attitude and a state of mind. It is a sustained act, subject to varying degrees of intensity and perfection . . . Real worship is, among other things, a feeling about the Lord our God . . . It is in our hearts. And we must be willing to express it in an appropriate manner. If we love the Lord and are led by His Holy Spirit, our worship will always bring a delighted sense of admiring awe and a sincere humility on our part.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Attitude, Real, Heart

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• ...when you trust the Lord God to give you the next step, when you wait in humility upon Him, *He* will open the doors or close them, and you'll get to rest and relax until He says, 'Go.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Doors, Giving, Waiting

  Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “Great Days with the Great Lives: Daily Insight from Great Lives of the Bible”, p.54, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We can ...start making our way back to the Father. We should do so with as much haste and humility as we can summon. Along the way we can count our many blessings and we can applaud the accomplishments of others. Best of all we can serve others.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Father, Blessing, Accomplishment

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• Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are - of immeasurable stature.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Size, Reducing

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Pride, Fur

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• The God of Christians is a God of love and comfort, a God who fills the soul and heart of those whom he possesses, a God who makes them conscious of their inward wretchedness, and his infinite mercy; who unites himself to their inmost soul, who fills it with humility and joy, with confidence and love, who renders them incapable of any other end than himself.

  Blaise Pascal

  Christian, Heart, Joy

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.186, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It's not easy, being the best at what he does but still having the humility and desire to be close to those around him. In private, Messi is a great leader, a great captain. Usually the best in any area see things differently but in this case Leo is still an ordinary person and that makes our relationship work. He's the leader of ARG, he has helped us to reach two finals in one year. I have great respect for Messi the person and player.

  Javier Mascherano

  Player, Years, Two

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• He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Want, Exalted

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Gary Handwerk (2000). “Human, All Too Human, I”, p.354, Stanford University Press

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• Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Laughter, Laughing

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• The moment the doctrine of the immortality is separately taught, man is already fallen. In the flowing of love, in the adoration of humility, there is no question of continuance. No inspired man ever asks this question, or condescends to these evidences. For the soul is true to itself, and the man in whom it is shed abroad cannot wander from the present, which is infinite, to a future which would be finite.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Soul, Religion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.303, Modern Library

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