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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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"We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility."
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"Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is."
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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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"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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"Joy is a flame that glimmers only in the palm of the open and humble hand. In an open and humble palm, released and surrendered to receive, light dances, flickers happy. The moment the hand is clenched tight, fingers all pointing towards self and rights and demands, joy is snuffed out. Anger is the lid that suffocates joy until she lies limp and lifeless."
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"Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart."
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"Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot."
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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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"The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague."
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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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"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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"With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive."
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"What is the value of the Gnani's [the enlightened one's] feet? It is a value that is immeasurable. The Gnani's feet is one & the only solvent to dissolve egoism."
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"One never meets just Cancer, or War, or Unhappiness (or Happiness). One only meets each hour or moment that comes. All manner of ups and downs. Many bad spots in our best times, many good ones in our worst. One never gets the total impact of what we call 'the thing itself'. But we call it wrongly. The thing itself is simply all these ups and downs: the rest is a name or an idea."
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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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"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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"Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new."
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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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"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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"Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness."
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"People often told him how humble he was, but they did not mean real humility, it was merely that he did not flaunt his membership in the wealthy club, did not exercise the rights it brought-to be rude, to be inconsiderate, to be greeted rather than to greet-and because so many others like him exercised those rights, his choices were interpreted as humility."
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