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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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"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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"Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is."
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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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"All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming."
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"Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility."
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"My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six."
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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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"Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them."
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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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"Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up."
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"Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot."
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"Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled."
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"I am only a sparrow amongst a great flock of sparrows."
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"All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words."
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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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"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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"Humility is no substitute for a good personality."
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"It has not been an easy name, yet it has brought me many a laugh."
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"Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility."
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