Humility Quotes
We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom.
Perhaps when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.
I read them (articles TR wrote on his honeymoon) all over to Edith and her corrections and help were most valuable to me.
PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration.
Deeply convinced of the reality of the divine will, he (Lincoln) had no patience at all with any who were perfectly sure they knew the details of the divine will.
A major element in Lincoln's greatness was the way in which he could hold a strong moral position without the usual accompaniment of self-righteousness.
He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god.
Know thy own point: this kind, this due degreeOf blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee.
His enthusiasm and willingness to use what he learned made him get ahead in Spanish.
Think not that humility is weakness it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer bow thyself and become invincible.
It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.
Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
it's always good to know that you have been the best even though deep inside you know you will never be better than that.
the more the tree goes up in the air, the more it goes down into the earth. Remember humility in greatness.
Don't think you are irreplaceable, or the world will end when you are gone
False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.
I rather choose to go through what will make me humble than to go for what will increase my pride to a level without limit
to understand the real reasons to uphold humility, know your real roots, remember death and study the masses
Jehovah chose to do great things through me. I lay my life in total humility never to take the Glory that comes from doing His great work… It all belongs to Him
There is no great path to greatness than true service. He who knows how to serve from a true heart and spirit knows what it takes to be truly great
False humility is the pride of not being proud, real humility is without the consciousness that pride exists.
He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter.
LearningTo believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.
Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility.
Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!
The only wisdom we can hope to acquireIs the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.
Good...if you've done things you aren't proud of. It means you have a conscience.
Author says her father was so diplomatic that when people came to him for solutions, people not only accepted them, but they believed they thought of them.
Almost every so called setback is an opportunity for growth, learning, self love, wisdom and humility
