Humility Quotes
As with many tragedies, our story opens in a moment of triumph.
I am a neighbour king to stretch my branches over him, just as Toghrul sheltered me when I was a weed-stalk next to a strong tree.
Humility is a peace that accepts one's strengths and limitations.
He did have his beliefs, chiefly in his own genius.
...life is a continual process of learning, working hard, rising up, and then being humbled. Sliding over, then sliding over again. And again.
A humble person is comfortable in their own skin.
Lippmann was very good at staying young, at not aging and becoming a prisoner of his past experiences.
He may have confused honor with with with ruthlessness.
Pedestals aren't safe...one wrong move and a nasty tumble is sure to follow. Humility is a great grounding tool.
The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph into arrogance that Death loves to prove unfounded.
Students in the school of prayer never graduate from the school of the Gospel.
We never move on from the cross. We only get a more profound understanding of the cross.
The only path to real promotion is to humble yourself and make yourself of no reputation and then begin to give yourself to other people and serve them.
It is vital that we are equipped with the humility to understand that changing the world and keeping innovation alive require that we change ourselves.
Excellence will give you the recognition you crave for, but humility will keep you standing longer than expected.
The Oracle at Delphi contained three maxims emblematic of Greek life. "Know yourself." "Nothing in excess." and, "Offer a guarantee and disaster threatens.
The factor that made him so powerful was also his greatest liability.
They possess the self- effacing virtues of people who are inclined to be useful but don’t need to prove anything to the world:
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Advice saves you time. If you ask anyone over fifty, which is more important, time or money, they will ALWAYS tell you time.
Those that would attain wisdom, prefer the empty stadium.Those who wish to appear wise, prefer it full.
No person is great in isolation. It takes many hands to shape a life. Denial would mean conceit, and conceit is not the same as self-respect.
If you're a boss, and not a leader, your time is limited.
If you go in thinking that you're smarter than everyone else, you want in a learning very much. If you go in thinking, "I'd sure like to understand this better, " you end up doing precisely that.
Study cannot happen until we are subject to the subject.
True service is a lifestyle. It acts from the ingrained patterns of living. It springs spontaneously to meet human need.
Integrity comes not from privilege, textbooks, or profession, but from being grounded in humility.
Frasier (Responding to the suggestion that he undertake the difficult work of closure in a relationship): "What you just said about my success made a lot of sense. I tuned you out after that.
Much of history is fragmentary and essentially anachronistic – condemning the past for not being more like the present. It has no real interest in the pastness of the past.
If Christians insist only on condemning what they don't like, they will cut themselves off from that shared cultural life.
Academics have given up trying to recover an honest picture of the past and have decided that their history-writing should be simply an instrument of moral hand-wringing.
