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Humility Quotes
"One who is thankful for a slice of bread is more blessedthan one who is ungrateful for a loaf."
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"Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger."
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"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle."
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"Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do."
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"If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility."
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"Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility."
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"In utter humility, bow to What Is. And in time, crying one's guts out, howling, bowing to IT, "knowing" comes. As a gift of the Divine."
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"My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six."
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"All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming."
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"True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be."
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"Asking for outside help, or even if it comes unasked, to allow outside help, needs a certain gracefulness and humility. Otherwise, you cannot allow outside help. Lots of people cannot receive something gracefully. Always, the social ethics have taught you that giving is important, taking is not important. Yes, taking is not important, taking is ugly, but receiving is very important."
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"Humility is no substitute for a good personality."
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"I am merely an insignificant creature on a microscopic blue dot in the vastness of space."
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"If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest."
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"Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness."
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"The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be."
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"It has not been an easy name, yet it has brought me many a laugh."
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"Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new."
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"The emphasis and the reason for a pure humility is to result in love for others; not always necessarily the belittlement of self. When there is pride and self-righteousness and being pretentiously too far above, generally, one has a difficult time reaching the compassionate side of love for others, the side that understands (or at least attempts to understand): 'I am aware that I am not so far from falling in the same way.' Humility seeks to understand, and sometimes even relate; and in result, the love lovingly, properly, effectively wills the removal of the destructive sins of another as from oneself."
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"All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words."
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"Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a relief from our insanely hopeful ambitions for our lives."
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"Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is."
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"If you are really humble you will put yourself first when you need to take care of you."
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"The next time you think you're perfect, try walking on water."
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