Humility Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation of a virtuous soul, when the beauty of the face speaks out the modesty and humility of the mind, and the justness of the proportion raises our thoughts up to the heart and wisdom of the great Creator, something may be allowed it,--and something to the embellishments which set it off; and yet, when the whole apology is read, it will be found at last that beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

  Laurence Sterne

  Beauty, Heart, Apology

  Laurence Sterne (1823). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author”, p.241

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• though humility and acknowledgement of one's real failings is good, the gratuitous eating of worms not put before us by God does not nourish our souls a bit - merely in fact upsets the spiritual tummy.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Spiritual, Real, Upset

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• When you learn economy. It strips away self-indulgence. Just in the act itself it requires a certain amount of humility. You have to accept the fact that you might feel you can do better but in the moment you have to make a choice.

  Charlie Huston

  Self, Choices, Might

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• How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion.

  Hosea Ballou

  Heart, Pride, Fruit

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• What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means; a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Beautiful, Mean, Soul

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• To counter-balance the natural humility of motherhood, I garden ... In the garden, more than any place, I really feel successful.

  Glenda Jackson

  Motherhood, Successful, Garden

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• One must have the humility and the imagination to honor all deep human experiences - not least those one has never come near to sharing.

  Rosamond Lehmann

  Respect, Imagination, Empathy

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• Now, there are two ways to approach a subject that frightens you and makes you feel stupid: you can embrace it with humility and an open mind, or you can ridicule it mercilessly.

  Judith Stone

  Stupid, Learning, Ignorance

  Judith Stone (1991). “Light Elements: Essays in Science from Gravity to Levity”, Ballantine Books

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• I can rise above the humility of my failure with an intense desire to search deeper and a blind faith that some day my sight may pierce through the veils that hide. I know God's face is there if I keep my gaze steady enough.

  Emily Carr

  Sight, Desire, Veils

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.117, D & M Publishers

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• sooner or later the universe usually provides lessons of humility to those who need it the most.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Needs, Lessons, Sooner Or Later

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• ... humility + humor = humanity.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Humanity

  Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!: An Autobiography”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• I love humility in a woman. It's so rare. With man, of course, it is practically extinct.

  Ethel M. Dell

  Men, Courses

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• Nothing is difficult for the humble.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Humble, Difficult

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• Dealing with the old school rappers, you see a lot of humility. When you're new, nothing is wrong. Everything is tight. Because you're trying to hype the world into believing in you.

  Ice T

  Believe, School, Rapper

  "Interview: Ice-T likes lemonade, loves Coco". Interview With Luis Gomez, articles.chicagotribune.com. June 14, 2012.

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• It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred; but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how can we bear it?

  Constance Fenimore Woolson

  Humble, Bears, Easy

  Constance Fenimore Woolson (2015). “Anne”, p.17, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I'm so humble it's crazy. I'm like the Kanye West of humility.

  Anna Kendrick

  Crazy, Humble, West

  Twitter post from Nov 04, 2014

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• The artist alone among men knows what true humility means. His reach forever exceeds his grasp. He can never be satisfied with his work. He knows when he has done well, but he knows he has never attained his dream. He knows he never can.

  Rheta Childe Dorr

  Dream, Mean, Artist

  Rheta Childe Dorr (1980). “A woman of fifty”, Ayer Co Pub

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• What's hard, it seems, is living up to the words spoken by Jesus Christ, who preached naught but love and mercy and justice and humility.

  Steven Weber

  Jesus, Justice, Christ

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you.

  Rupert Graves

  Thinking, Doe, Levels

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Kate Otto, like so many in her generation, is committed to being a good global citizen and doing her part to make the world a better place. Everyday Ambassador is a refreshing approach which encourages collaborative work with focus, empathy, humility and patience to better affect positive change in communities throughout the world.

  Ann Veneman

  Focus, Empathy, Community

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• An essential virtue is humility. ... The principle of humility and prayer leads one to feel a need of divine guidance. Self-reliance is a virtue, but with it should go a consciousness of the need of superior help-a consciousness that as you walk firmly in the pathway of duty, there is a possibility of your making a misstep; and with that consciousness is a prayer, a pleading that God will inspire you to avoid that false step

  David O. McKay

  Prayer, Divine Guidance, Self

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• How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean up our mess? Hope for a nanny God, who will with a miracle grant us amnesty from our folly - thats not aligned with either history or the text of the Bible.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Self, Miracle, Would Be

  "Sheldon Whitehouse: God Won’t Save Us From Climate Catastrophe" by Michael McAuliff, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2013.

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• To learn true humility, we need more than a redefinition of greatness; we need even more than Jesus' personal example of humble service. What we need is His death.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Jesus, Humble, Greatness

  C.J. Mahaney (2008). “Humility: True Greatness”, p.29, Multnomah

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• A failure remains a failure only if we refuse to learn from it. Any situation that teaches us greater humility, sobriety, wisdom about self and others, responsibility, forgiveness, depth of reflection, and better decision making -\-\teaching us what's truly important-\-\is not an ultimate failure. Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.

  Marianne Williamson

  Teaching, Responsibility, Reflection

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