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Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.
Charles Spurgeon
Humility
Self
Make
Estimate
Right
With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.
Ezra Taft Benson
Wisdom
Pride
Humility
Come
Blessings
Curses
Many
Great leaders don't need to act tough. Their confidence and humility serve to underscore their toughness.
Simon Sinek
Great
Confidence
Tough
Humility
Great Leaders
Toughness
Leaders
Underscore
Act
Serve
Need
What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.
Maya Angelou
Myself
Needs
Me
People
Before
Pay
Humility
Else
I Can
Someone
Reminds
Come
Does
Been
May
Us
Paid
Who
Prepare
Here
Need
Have the humility to learn from those around you.
John C. Maxwell
You
Humility
Those
Learn
Around
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
Charles Caleb Colton
Truth
Time
Truth Is
Enemy
Humility
Constant
Greatest
Friend
Prejudice
Companion
Her
The world calls for, and expects from us, simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor, obedience and humility, detachment, and self-sacrifice. Without this mark of holiness, our word will have difficulty in touching the heart of modern man.
Pope Paul VI
Life
Prayer
Man
Heart
Obedience
Charity
World
Simplicity
Word
Will
Difficulty
Humility
Mark
Our
Detachment
Spirit
Touching
Towards
Calls
Without
Self-Sacrifice
Expects
Modern
Modern Man
Holiness
Poor
Us
Lowly
The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
John Ruskin
Great
Relationship
Man
First
Understanding
Doubt
Humility
Hesitation
Say
Great Man
He
Merely
Powers
Opinion
Test
His
Truly
Mean
Speaking
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
Mahatma Gandhi
Me
Simple
Own
Liable
Other
Enough
Humility
Claim
Individual
Mortal
Steps
Retrace
Like
Fellow
However
Err
Errors
Confess
Any
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
Robin Morgan
Knowledge
Knowledge Is Power
Tyranny
Power
Humility
Hoarding
May
Information
Act
I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed, because it's not about you. You are a terminal for a higher power. As soon as you accept that, you can do it forever.
Quincy Jones
You
You Can Do It
Grace
Power
Humility
Kids
Tell
About
Higher
Higher Power
Soon
Terminal
Accept
Because
Always
Forever
Succeed
Create
Live a life full of humility, gratitude, intellectual curiosity, and never stop learning.
Gza
Life
Gratitude
Learning
Live
Humility
Never
Never Stop
Intellectual
Intellectual Curiosity
Curiosity
Stop
Full
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
Saint Augustine
Great
You
First
Wish
Think
Humility
Must
Lofty
Fabric
About
Structure
Construct
Vast
Higher
Begin
Being
Then
Your
Foundation
Deeper
Foundations
Desire
Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.
Paulo Coelho
Confuse
Humility
Must
One Thing
About
Absolutely
Clear
False
False Modesty
Modesty
Us
Let Us
Thing
Servility
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
Arthur Helps
Better
Beauty
Humility
Severe
Temper
Temperance
Cosmetics
Spirit
Purity
Countenance
True
True Beauty
Without
Calmness
Very
Than
Graces
Gracious
Modesty
Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
Francis of Assisi
World
Pride
Men
Humility
All Things
Holy
Things
Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.
Jack Kerouac
You
Respect
Long
Humility
Bite
Bitten
Mad
Stay
Never
Like
Sorrow
Dogs
Get
Gods
Mankind
The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.
Saadi
God
Best
Rich
Humility
Those
Magnanimity
Loved
Poor
Honesty is grounded in humility and indeed in humiliation, and in admitting exactly where we are powerless.
David Whyte
Honesty
Honesty Is
Humiliation
Admitting
Humility
Indeed
Exactly
Powerless
Where
Grounded
A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
Honesty
Humility
Complex
Superiority
Only
Cured
Person
Sarcastic
If there is one thing I have learned on this incredible journey we call life, it is this: the sign of a truly successful individual is humility.
Naveen Jain
Life
Journey
Humility
Incredible
Sign
One Thing
Individual
Call
Learned
Truly
Successful
Thing
There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
Saint Augustine
Heart
Humility
Something
Which
Strangely
Humility is attentive patience.
Simone Weil
Patience
Humility
Attentive
Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.
Swami Sivananda
Spiritual
Meekness
Cowardice
Humility
Indeed
Weakness
Powers
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Man
Humility
Earned
Must
Followers
Sacrifices
Always
Acclaim
His
Blood
Friends
Any
Who
Portion
Receives
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
Francis Quarles
Love
God
Strength
Prevail
Man
Heart
Humble
Be Humble
Humility
Virtue
Thou
Neither
None
Proud
Nor
Itself
Where
Loves
Reason
Beloved
Desire
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