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• Meekness is calm confidence, settled assurance, and rest of the soul. It is the tranquil stillness of a soul that is at rest in Christ. It is the place of peace. Meekness springs from a heart of humility, radiating the fragrance of Christ.

  Matthew Henry

  Spring, Heart, Soul

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• The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.

  James C. Collins

  Differences, Leader, Great Leader

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• An eternal marriage is eternal. Eternal implies continuing growth and improvement. It signifies that love will grow stronger with time and that it extends beyond the grave. It means that each partner will be blessed with the company of the other partner forever. Eternal signifies repentance, forgiveness, long-suffering, patience, hope, charity, love, and humility. All of these things are involved in anything that is eternal, and surely we must learn and practice them if we intend to claim an eternal marriage.

  F. Burton Howard

  Blessed, Mean, Practice

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• From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.

  Dada Vaswani

  Religious, Spring, Compassion

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• I begin with humility, I act with humility, I end with humility. Humility leads to clarity. Humility leads to an open mind and a forgiving heart. With an open mind and a forgiving heart, I see every person as superior to me in some way; with every person as my teacher, I grow in wisdom. As I grow in wisdom, humility becomes ever more my guide. I begin with humility, I act with humility, I end with humility.

  Eric Greitens

  Teacher, Heart, Forgiving

  Eric Greitens (2015). “Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If zeal had been appropriate for putting humanity right, why did God the Word clothe himself in the body, using gentleness and humility in order to bring the world back to his Father?

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Father, Order, Humanity

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• All things have their ends and cycles. And when they have reached their highest point, they are in their lowest ruin, for they cannot last for long in such a state. Such is the end for those who cannot moderate their fortune and prosperity with reason and temperance.

  Francois Rabelais

  Long, Lasts, Ruins

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• There was about all the Romans a heroic tone peculiar to ancient life. Their virtues were great and noble, and these virtues madethem great and noble. They possessed a natural majesty that was not put on and taken off at pleasure, as was that of certain eastern monarchs when they put on or took off their garments of Tyrian dye. It is hoped that this is not wholly lost from the world, although the sense of earthly vanity inculcated by Christianity may have swallowed it up in humility.

  Herman Melville

  Taken, Greatness, Vanity

  Herman Melville (2001). “Tales, Poems, and Other Writings”

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• I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.

  Albert Camus

  Memories, Shining, Triumph

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• When I survey the wondrous cross
  On which the Prince of Glory died,
  My richest gain I count but loss,
  And pour contempt on all my pride.

  Isaac Watts

  Pride, Loss, Gains

  1707 Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 'Crucifixion to the World, by the Cross of Christ'.

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• Public faith means going public with what’s in your heart, with humility and respect for others, as we speak of the truth of the gospel.

  Timothy Keller

  Heart, Mean, Speak

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• I have never worked for fame or praise, and shall not feel their loss as I otherwise would. I have never for a moment lost sight of the humble life I was born to, its small environments, and the consequently little right I had to expect much of myself, and shall have the less to censure, or upbraid myself with for the failures I must see myself make.

  Clara Barton

  Failure, Humble, Loss

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• That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors.

  Karl Kraus

  Cheating, Doe, Actors

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• In Islamic belief, knowledge is two-fold. There is that revealed through the Holy Prophet (s.a.s.) and that which man discovers by virtue of his own intellect. Nor do these two involve any contradiction, provided man remembers that his own mind is itself the creation of God. Without this humility, no balance is possible. With it, there are no barriers. Indeed, one strength of Islam has always lain in its belief that creation is not static but continuous, that through scientific and other endeavours, God has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation

  Aga Khan IV

  Islamic, Men, Holy Prophet

  Speech at The Acceptance of The Charter of The Aga Khan University, ismaili.net. March 24, 2010.

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• We can ...start making our way back to the Father. We should do so with as much haste and humility as we can summon. Along the way we can count our many blessings and we can applaud the accomplishments of others. Best of all we can serve others.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Father, Blessing, Accomplishment

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• Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Pride, Fur

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• He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Want, Exalted

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Gary Handwerk (2000). “Human, All Too Human, I”, p.354, Stanford University Press

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• Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Laughter, Laughing

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• But the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of his relation to the world, and that it is not to be learned by any addition or subtraction or other comparison of known quantities, but is arrived at by untaught sallies of the spirit, by a continual self-recovery, and by entire humility.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Recovery, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2017). “The Best Read Naturalist": Nature Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.130, University of Virginia Press

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• The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together. Their top-heavy dignity is more touching than any humility; their solemnity gives us more hope for all things than a thousand carnivals of optimism; their large and lustrous eyes seem to hold all the stars in their astonishment; their fascinating absence of nose seems to give to us the most perfect hint of the humour that awaits us in the kingdom of heaven.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Stars, Children, Humorous

  "The Defendant". Book by G. K. Chesterton, A Defence of Baby-Worship, 1901.

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• The opposite of humility is arrogance--the belief that we are wiser or better than others. Arrogance promotes separation rather than community. It looms like a brick wall between us and those from whom we could learn.

  John Templeton

  Wall, Opposites, Community

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• Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation; humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer; the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Grief, Pride, Suffering

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• ...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

  Saint Augustine

  Effort, Doe, Ifs

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• Without modesty, woman is devoid of beauty and culture. Humility, purity of thought and manners, meekness, surrender to high ideals, sensitivity, sweetness of temper - the peculiar blend of all these qualities is modesty. It is the most invaluable of all jewels for women.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Jewels, Quality, Peculiar

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• Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Grace, Doe, Knows

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 329), 1895.

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