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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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"We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility."
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"Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger."
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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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"All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming."
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"Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot."
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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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"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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"My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six."
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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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"Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart."
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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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"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less."
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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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"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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"Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up."
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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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"Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new."
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"The next time you think you're perfect, try walking on water."
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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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"For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he is fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another."
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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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