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Humility Quotes
"I am only a sparrow amongst a great flock of sparrows."
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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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"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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"Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility."
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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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"The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it."
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"Humility is no substitute for a good personality."
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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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"All rivers pay homage to the ocean for it lies lowest."
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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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"If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search."
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"Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility."
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"There is no respect for others without humility in one's self."
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"You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you."
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"It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity."
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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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"Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them."
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"I don't really feel that I deserve all my applause."
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"I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles."
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"Beware pride, it would have us seek revenge from those most deserving of our pity."
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"To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified."
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"All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words."
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"Have a heart which does not trample down simplicity and humility."
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"Eating humble pie is not very enjoyable, and it is even less so eating it alone."
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"Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real."
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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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"I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps."
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"We don't really know anything. Those who accept this are more likely to learn something."
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"It has not been an easy name, yet it has brought me many a laugh."
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"The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth."
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