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"You don't want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I'm here because I've been paid for. I have something to do and I will do that because I'm paying for someone else who has yet to come."
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"The most secretive news that can make you to shake hands with great people is humility. Pride on the other way is a dream killer."
"They may hail you like an Angel. They may claim you are the world's prince of princes. They may lift you with praise many kilometers above sea level. They may say you are the best of the bests. ....But always remember "you are a human being" with flesh and blood."
"The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it's a secret."
"It does not pay away a penny from you to say "am sorry", "I won't do that again"! It does not take away your integrity to appreciate the very little that you have obtained from someone, even if it's not much! True humility speaks "little is enough if God is in it."
"Religious traditions and selfish agenda are laid aside when we are poor in spirit."
"Turn thy crown upside down! You need to feel how it is to kneel as those less fortunate than your noble deal."
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"We need to develop courage, and we need to develop it in small ways first..... You develop a little courage, so that if you decide, "I will not stay in rooms where women are belittled; I will not stay in company where races, no matter who they are, are belittled; I will not take it; I will not sit around and accept dehumanising other human beings: - if you decide to do that in small ways, and you continue to do it - finally you realize you've got so much courage. Imagine it - you've got so much courage that people want to be around you. They get a feeling that they will be protected in your company."
"I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute."
"We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!"
"It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable."
"Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry."
"I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too."
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