Humility Quotes - Page 39

• Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.

  Maya Angelou

  Running, Thinking, Fire

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• When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.

  James Balog

  Tree, Wildlife, Eighty

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• True belief is not about blind submission. It is about open-eyed acceptance, and acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth, and that distance is doubt. Doubt, in other words, can feed faith, rather than destroy it. And it forces us, even while believing, to recognize our fundamental duty with respect to God's truth: humility. We do not know. Which is why we believe.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Distance, Believe, Acceptance

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• The language of love is the language of humility or humbleness.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Love Is, Language Of Love, Humbleness

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I'd rather be around broken people who have a degree of humility, and just get on with their work.

  Moby

  People, Broken, Degrees

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• I like the humility that comes from being hated. Hopefully some humility and compassion comes out of that.

  Moby

  Compassion, Being Hated, Hopefully

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• Biggest lesson? Discovering that the less I think about myself and the more I think about what I can do for others, the more I get out of life. Ultimately, it makes me a happier person. You have to give it away if you want to get it back. After all, humility isn't thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

  Kevin Griffin

  Thinking Of You, Giving, Lessons

  "Interview with Kevin Griffin of Better Than Ezra". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I had the habit of not accepting prizes or honors, but always, not out of humility, but because I don't like them. Maybe it's a little crazy, but it's good to have it, but I just don't like them.

  Pope Francis

  Crazy, Honor, Littles

  "Full text of Pope Francis' in-flight interview from Mexico to Rome". www.catholicnewsagency.com. February 18, 2016.

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• Buddhist epistemologists do argue that rational analysis leads to the conclusion that rational analysis cannot give us infallible access to truth, including that one. That's not self-defeating, though; it only induces an important kind of epistemic humility and a clearer view of what we do when we reason. We engage in one more fallible human activity among many.

  Jay L. Garfield

  Buddhist, Self, Views

  "Buddhist howls". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. December 28, 2012.

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• Parenthood is a school for humility. We can't choose the precise traits of our children, and that is morally important. It teaches us what William May, a theologian whom I greatly admire, calls "an openness to the unbidden."

  Michael Sandel

  Children, School, Important

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If we go too far down the road of choosing the genetic traits of children, my worry is that parenting will be less a kind of school for humility than it should be, and we will become too accustomed to regarding children as instruments of our ambition and of our desires.

  Michael Sandel

  Children, Ambition, School

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The other effect that I worry about is the effect on the parent, that the moral teaching of humility and of the limits to our control that parenthood teaches- - that that will be lost and that we will begin to think of children more as consumer goods than as gifts that we can't fully control and for which we aren't fully responsible.

  Michael Sandel

  Children, Teaching, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• One does have to learn to travel with a degree of humility and that reflected in writing and personality.

  John Gimlette

  Writing, Personality, Degrees

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• I've tended to lean more toward the Dalai Lama and people like Russell Means who have been my political and spiritual North Stars, but I certainly regard Nelson Mandela with great respect and humility.

  Ian Astbury

  Spiritual, Stars, Mean

  "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

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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, Pride, Thinking

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

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• I think what matures us is time, not necessarily our physical bodies. So I think she can probably change as much as human would in the timespan of the show. However, I do think as a human you reach a point where there's a certain amount of humility and acceptance of life and its consequences when you see your own body change and age, and the pounds come or the wrinkles come.

  Deborah Ann Woll

  Acceptance, Thinking, Wrinkles

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced. I was very hurt and very angry and so was she. But when kids are involved, you either become friends with respect or you become mortal enemies.

  Val Kilmer

  Hurt, Children, Kids

  "The Iceman Come Backeth". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. November 28, 2006.

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• Elevated levels of confidence are omnipresent among history's greatest overachievers. Benjamin Franklin, one of the most famous men in the world even before he signed the Declaration of Independence once lamented about humility, "I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the reality of this virtue."

  John Eliot

  Men, Reality, Independence

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• As the biocentric view suggests, the garden prospers when control is balanced by equal measures of humility and benevolence. A balance is struck. Control, servitude, respect, imagination, pragmatism, an ecological conscience, compliance, and a certain measure of mysticism and altruism, all meld together to provide nurturance.

  Jim Nollman

  Garden, Compassion, Views

  Jim Nollman (2005). “Why We Garden: Cultivating a Sense of Place”, p.104, Sentient Publications

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• The darker side of the City tried to emphasize the selfish parts of me by encouraging my sense of entitlement and my desire for personal space. But God seemed to whisper that the alternative existed: to let Him grow humility and concern for others in a way I had never experienced, to live out His peace amid whirling chaos.

  Tara Leigh Cobble

  Christian, Selfish, Inspiration

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• If you choose to see everything as a miracle, then where you are right now is perfect. There is nowhere to run to; there is nothing else to do except be in this moment and allow what is to be. From that place of radical acceptance, major change can happen. The first step in any transformational experience is acceptance and surrender to the present moment, the way that it is. From that place we have the awareness, humility and power to change what is.

  Mastin Kipp

  Inspiring, Running, Yoga

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• Be happy for those who are happy, have compassion towards the unhappy, and maintain equanimity towards the wicked.

  Patanjali

  Compassion, Wicked, Unhappy

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• The problem, once again, as in all sciences is the attitude of the mind that is dealing with whatever field. The problem is not philosophy but the lack of intellectual humility. It is when reason becomes arrogant that we lose track. But intellectual humility with science: this is spirituality - this is the way we are with God. So we should not be scared and we must reconcile ourselves.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Attitude, Philosophy, Track

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• We always think from where we come from. We always think from the sources that shape our understanding. I think about the world through the lens of my Islamic tradition. I accept this but I must also have intellectual humility.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Islamic, Thinking, Understanding

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• I never left my roots. You can identify me as someone that didn't become high and mighty. Humility is a defining [trait] all of us can forever learn, and I try to be as humble as anyone can be.

  Serena Williams

  Humble, Roots, Forever

  Source: www.glamour.com

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