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Humility Quotes
"There is no problem to relish pride when people praises you but at the same time, one must also be of the opinion that 'this should not be so'."
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"An ocean which thinks there is nothing to learn from a lake is not a wise ocean!"
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"Who is considered a great man is the one who can be the smallest of the small."
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"Humility and full consciousness are inseparable."
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"Humility carries less weight and it makes things float. Pride is weighty and it makes things sink! It takes humility then for a 'ship', regardless of how loaded it is, to float on the surface of the 'sea'. And it takes pride for the 'small stone' to sink when dropped into the 'sea'! Go with humility then!"
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"We can learn personal humility from episodes that generate shame and guilt. After retiring from worldly affairs and drawing useful lessons from personal disgrace, we must resume living an expedient life devoted to appreciating truth, beauty, and love."
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"Insistence on one's own opinion can never lead to attainment of Moksha [Ultimate Liberation]. Only those who are free of insistence will attain Liberation."
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"The entire path of the Vitraag Lords (the enlightened one) is one of humility (vinaya). The practice of humility (vinaya dharma) begins from Hindustan (India). There are endless practices of humility, starting from putting two hands together (in the gesture of Namaste) to prostrating. And ultimately when one attains absolute humility (param vinaya), he attains moksha (ultimate liberation)."
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"The fact that you are not perfect may come as a surprise to you but it is not a surprise to anyone else."
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"I laboured hard at my book, without allowing it to interfere with the punctual discharge of my newspaper duties; and it came out and was very successful. I was not stunned by the praise which sounded in my ears, notwithstanding that I was keenly alive to it, and thought better of my own performance, I have little doubt, than anybody else did. It has always been in my observation of human nature, that a man who has any good reason to believe in himself never flourishes himself before the faces of other people in order that they may believe in him. For this reason, I retained my modesty in very self-respect; and the more praise I got, the more I tried to deserve."
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"In Vitrag-Vignan [science of vitraag lords, the enlightened ones] there cannot be the slightest of the [wrong] insistence; moreover, there can be no insistence on one's own opinion."
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"It is the fool who declares 'I am ascending the summit,' while he's toddling around in the ditch."
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"Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin."
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"The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it's a secret."
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"From the moment you realize, 'I am the most worthless person in this world'; you become valuable."
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"The Celestial (Heavenly Gods) become pleased with the one who isn't hungry for fame and recognition. The whole world can be pleased with us, but because of our hunger they are not pleased with us."
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"Never believe you are the best, but believe you are one of the best."
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"People have this dream of being unreachable. They build a name for themselves and then finally fulfill their dream of "being more important." Which just shows they were born from down below. Because when you're born from up above, your dreams have nowhere to go but downwards! And you dream of doing things in order to meet people, to know them, to understand the smallest importances!"
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"He whose speech, behavior and humility captivates people's minds, becomes worthy of worship by people."
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"You will get closer to the truths only when you start thinking this way: My religion is not the best religion, my country is not the best country, my culture is not the best culture, and my life is not the best life! The more you move away from arrogance, pride and prejudice, the more you will get closer to the truth!"
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"Humility and brokenness before God is the key to making your body the dwelling place of God."
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"Conscious humility is the decision to live from our hearts."
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"Real humility knows how to slam a door closed and say no more. You can't be humble without self-love."
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"Life is so humbling, when we slow down and witness the gifts."
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"Indeed if they ever once saw the endless supply of eternal opportunities The Adversary offers them every temporal moment of day after day of their fuddled little lives, they would stagger at the sheer industry and prodigality of His efforts. Conversely, if they ever gained a glimpse of how their ordinary actions actually effect and shape things not only under time but without, the very vast weight of that would almost certainly end in their becoming humble."
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"If a person does five samayiks (introspective meditation) he will say, 'I did five'- and this is how he will taste the sweetness of the subtle-pride of doership. Actually what he should say is, 'it was due to God's grace that I was able to do five samayik'. He should not taste the sweetness of subtle pride of doership."
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"If you feel the need to laugh at people's weaknesses, laugh at yours first."
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