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Humility Quotes
"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 really important because it keeps you fresh and new."
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"Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility."
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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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"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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"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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"Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them."
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"Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness."
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"All rivers pay homage to the ocean for it lies lowest."
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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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"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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"It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity."
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"Humility is no substitute for a good personality."
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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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"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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"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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"You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you."
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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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"The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it."
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"Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real."
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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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"Have a heart which does not trample down simplicity and humility."
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"There is no respect for others without humility in one's self."
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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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"I don't really feel that I deserve all my applause."
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"It has not been an easy name, yet it has brought me many a laugh."
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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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"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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"Eating humble pie is not very enjoyable, and it is even less so eating it alone."
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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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"I really lack the words to compliment myself today."
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"Beware pride, it would have us seek revenge from those most deserving of our pity."
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"I used to think I knew everything. I was a "smart person" who "got things done," and because of that, the higher I climbed, the more I could look down and scoff at what seemed silly or simple, even religion.But I realized something as I drove home that night: that I am neither better nor smarter, only luckier. And I should be ashamed of thinking I knew everything, because you can know the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-no matter how smart or accomplished-they cry, they yearn, they hurt.But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things:comfort, love, and a peaceful heart."
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