Humility Quotes - Page 23

• Nirvikalpa samadhi is another matter. In order to enter into nirvikalpa samadhi, you must have a great deal of humility.

  Frederick Lenz

  Order, Matter, Samadhi

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• You need to have the humility to accept your limitations as long as they're there, and have the humility to accept their end when that time comes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Long

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• Humility simply means that you do a great job at everything and it isn't really a big deal.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Jobs, Mean

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• Religious tolerance has developed more as a consequence of the impotence of religions to impose their dogmas on each other than as a consequence of spiritual humility in the quest for understanding first and last things.

  Sidney Hook

  Spiritual, Religious, Understanding

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• Humility in this business [acting] isn't just a matter of being polite, it's kind of a matter of survival. You can't ever afford to think that you're the bee's knees, because you could always afford to be better. You have to always be searching for something better.

  Michael Shannon

  Thinking, Survival, Acting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I feel it's important to point out that I've earned my humility by being a jackass - like, I trip and fall on my face and say, "Oh, right. Don't think you're a big shot, because you've got a bloody nose now." So it's hard to say.

  Nick Offerman

  Fall, Thinking, Important

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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• After all, to get the whole universe totally wrong in the face of clear evidence for over 75 years merits monumental embarrassment and should induce a modicum of humility.

  Halton Arp

  Years, Faces, Merit

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• You should never write your own resume, personal ad, or obituary.  In all three cases it is better to show your humility by letting someone else lie for you.

  David Hayden

  Lying, Writing, Three

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• I've found in my own life that the older I get, the more stubborn I am in my beliefs and opinions. Without keeping my ego in check, it would be easy for me to bail on relationships when I didn't agree with someone. The antidote to this problem is humility, plain and simple. The more we claim an unassuming nature, the more we believe the best about people and situations, and the more we try and see others through the lens of love. We are then given the opportunity for our relationships to grow.

  Anne Marie Miller

  Believe, Opportunity, Simple

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• The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Character, Ornaments, Way

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• True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Suffering And Death, Religion, Poverty

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• At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Heart, Pride, Men

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “God's Men: A Novel”, p.237, Open Road Media

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• Some men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only by the tax of humility which they are obliged to pay as the price of their friendship.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Greatness, Men, Pay

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.50

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• To appear to be on the inside and know more than others about what is going on is a great temptation for most people. It is a rare person who is willing to seem to know less than he does ... Somehow, people seem to feel that it is belittling to their importance not to know more than other people.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Knowledge, Rare Person, People

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• all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.

  May Sarton

  Dream, Humble, People

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• Humility is the light of the understanding.

  John Bunyan

  Light, Understanding

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• True modesty is a discerning grace
  And only blushes in the proper place;
  But counterfeit is blind, and skulks through fear,
  Where 'tis a shame to be asham'd t' appear:
  Humility the parent of the first,
  The last by vanity produc'd and nurs'd.

  William Cowper

  Vanity, Parent, Grace

  William Cowper (1852). “Poems”, p.125

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• Cut your coat according to your cloth.

  John Heywood

  Cutting, Coats, Vietnamese

  John Heywood, Rudolph E. Habenicht (1963). “A Dialogue of Proverbs: Edited, with Introd., Commentary, and Indexes. by Rudolph E. Habenicht”

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• There's other ways to protect yourself and your family, Arlen. Wisdom. Prudence. Humility. It's not brave to fight a battle you can't win.

  Peter V. Brett

  Fighting, Winning, Brave

  Peter V. Brett (2009). “The Warded Man: Book One of The Demon Cycle”, p.28, Del Rey

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• Nowhere have I found words more powerful than those in the Psalms. Their fervid poetry cleanses one, gives one strength, brings hope in moments of darkness. Makes one look critically into oneself, convict oneself, and wash one's heart clean with one's own tears. It is the ever-burning fire of love, of gratitude, humility, and truth.

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  Bible, Gratitude, Powerful

  Svetlana Alliluyeva (1969). “Only One Year”

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• Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy, but emulation, or laudable ambition, is actually founded in humility; for it evidently implies that we have a low opinion of our present attainments, and think it necessary to be advanced.

  Joseph Hall

  Ambition, Pride, Thinking

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• The woman had a humble, cringing manner. Of course, she had discovered that, having neither money nor virtue, she had better be humble if she knew what was good for her.

  Jean Rhys

  Humble, Virtue, Courses

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• To try to stop war by placing before men's eyes the terrible suffering involved will never succeed, because men are willing (in their thoughts and imaginations at least) to face any kind of suffering when motivated by noble aims like the vague and tremendous concept of freedom ... Or, in their humility (or sloth - who knows?) men are quite willing to leave decisions to others 'who know more about it than we do.

  Dorothy Day

  War, Eye, Men

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• Occasionally there is a moment in a person's life when he takes a great stride forward in wisdom, humility, or disillusionment. For a split second he comes into a kind of cosmic understanding. For a trembling breath of time he knows all there is to know. He is loaned the gift the poet yearned for - seeing himself as others see him.

  Betty Smith

  Wisdom, Understanding, Splits

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• Plutarch has a fine expression, with regard to some woman of learning, humility, and virtue;--that her ornaments were such as might be purchased without money, and would render any woman's life both glorious and happy.

  Laurence Sterne

  Expression, Ornaments, Might

  Laurence Sterne (1814). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author”, p.394

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