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Humility Quotes
"We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility."
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"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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"Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is."
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"Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do."
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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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"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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"All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming."
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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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"We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori."
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"My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six."
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"Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility."
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"With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive."
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"Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart."
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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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"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, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot."
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"The next time you think you're perfect, try walking on water."
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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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"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less."
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"Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up."
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"I am only a sparrow amongst a great flock of sparrows."
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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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