Pride Quotes - Page 33

• We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Nature, Humility, Thinking

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.216

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• Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Humility, Example, Haughtiness

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• The virtue of pride, which was once the beauty of mankind, has given place to that fount of ugliness, Christian humility.

  Max Ernst

  Christian, Humility, Virtue

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• The unanswerable mysteries... the attitude that all is uncertain... to summarize it - the humility of the intellect.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Attitude, Humility, Mystery

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• The basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual... the humility of the spirit.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Humility, Men, Brotherhood

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.120, Princeton University Press

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• Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Humility, Modesty, Found

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• To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Humility, Men, Criticism

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• Be humble about it. Paint the color tones as they come against each other, and make them sing, vibrate. Don't ask me to look at those self-satisfied, pretty things.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Humility, Humble, Color

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• Loving and appreciating each individual, including ourselves, as the showing forth of the One Creative Principle, takes a great deal of humility and this includes sharing.

  Richard Kent

  Humility, Appreciate, Creative

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• A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.

  Walter Lippmann

  Humility, Men, Doubt

  Walter Lippmann (1955). “Essays in the Public Philosophy”, p.151, Transaction Publishers

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• To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Humility, Results, Behave

  Ramana Maharshi, C. G. (FRW) Jung (2004). “The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi”, Shambhala Pubns

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• To be part of the creation, I must act humbly. I'll take that over a goddess any day!

  Maureen O'Hara

  Humility, Goddess, Creation

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• You come to the master only in deep humbleness, because learning is possible only in humbleness. You have come to surrender, not to perform, not to manipulate, not to impress.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Humility, Surrender

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• Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.

  Pindar

  Humility, Humble, Greatness

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• About humility we speak with an analogy: When the branches are full of fruit, they just bow down.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Humility, Fruit, Bows

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• The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to penetrate the veil of material forms, and disclose the thoughts which lie beneath them? When our researches are successful, and when a generous and heaven-eyed inspiration has elevated us above humanity, and raised us triumphantly into the very presence, as it were, of the divine intellect, how instantly and entirely are human pride and vanity repressed, and, by a single glance at the glories of the infinite mind, are we humbled to the dust.

  Benjamin Peirce

  Lying, Inspiration, Science

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• Take me. I'm an ordinary player in the key of C.
  And my will was broken by my pride and my vanity.
  Who's gonna love you when you're looks are gone?
  God will. Like he waters the flowers on your window sill.

  Paul Simon

  Life, Flower, Love You

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• The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

  Piet Mondrian

  Art, Humble, Humility

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• CONFIDENCE BOOSTER: Take pride in the things that make you stand out. Realize that you're better served by being authentic to yourself than by seeking out short-term praise from someone else.

  Robin Meade

  Being Yourself, Realizing, Praise

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• The Lincoln Highway is to be something more than a road. It will be a road with a personality, a distinctive work of which the Americans of future generations can point with pride - an economic but also artistic triumph. (1914)

  Carl G. Fisher

  Future, Hard Work, Science

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• Do not become a disciple of one who praises himself, in case you learn pride instead of humility.

  Mark the Evangelist

  Humility, Praise, Cases

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• Learn to love humility, for it will cover all your sins. All sins are repulsive before God, but the most repulsive of all is pride of the heart. Do not consider yourself learned and wise; otherwise, all your efforts will be destroyed, and your boat will reach the harbor empty. If you have great authority, do not threaten anyone with death. Know that, according to nature, you too are susceptible to death, and that every soul sheds its body as its final garment.

  Anthony of Padua

  God, Wise, Heart

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• With sincere modesty, if there is such a thing, I have never thought of legacy at all. I am always grateful if people like what I have done. A legacy is something no one can forsee.

  Tom Glazer

  Grateful, Humility, People

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• We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.

  Edgar Wilson Nye

  Fun, Humility, Long

  The Century magazine, 1892.

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• Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Humility, Vanity, Quality

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