True Humility Quotes - Page 2

• Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

  Simone Weil

  Humility, Compassion, Oneself

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• True humility is not in the absence of confidence but strength restrained.

  Bill Johnson

  Humility, Absence

  Kris Vallotton, Bill Johnson (2017). “The Supernatural Ways of Royalty: Discovering Your Rights and Privileges of Being a Son or Daughter of God”, p.98, Destiny Image Publishers

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• What is Truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the "voice within" tells you. All that I can in true humility present to you is that Truth is not to be found by anybody who has not got an abundant sense of humility. If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth you must reduce yourself to zero.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Zero, Integrity, Ocean

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, North Atlantic Books

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• We find that the statements of science are not of what is true and what is not true, but statements of what is known with different degrees of certainty: "It is very much more likely that so and so is true than that it is not true".

  Richard P. Feynman

  Humility, Curiosity, Degrees

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• There is nothing that comes closer to true humility than the intelligence. It is impossible to feel pride in one's intelligence at the moment when one really and truly exercises it.

  Simone Weil

  Humility, Pride, Exercise

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.365, Routledge

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• May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Humility, May, Judgment

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• Whoever hates his sins will stop sinning; and whoever confesses them will receive remission. A man can not abandon the habit of sin if he does not first gain enmity toward sin, nor can he receive remission of sin without confession of sin. For the confession of sin is the cause of true humility.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• No structure of virtue can possibly be raised in our soul unless, first, the foundations of true humility are laid in our heart.

  John Cassian

  Heart, Humility, Soul

  John Cassian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of John Cassian (Annotated Edition)”, p.220, Jazzybee Verlag

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• O son, thou hast not true humility, The highest virtue, mother of them all; But her thou hast not know; for what is this? Thou thoughtest of thy prowess and thy sins Thou hast not lost thyself to save thyself.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Mother, Humility, Son

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (1851). “The Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson”

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• In order to learn true humility (I use this expression to describe the state of mind under discussion), it is good for a person to withdraw from the turmoil of the world (we see that Christ withdrew when the people wanted to proclaim him king as well as when he had to walk the thorny path), for in life either the depressing or the elevating impression is too dominant for a true balance to come about. Here, of course, individuality is very decisive.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Depressing, Kings, Humility

  "Søren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers: Autobiographical, 1829-1848". Book by Søren Kierkegaard and Gregor Malantschuk, p. 33, Journals 1A 68 (July 29, 1835), 1978.

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• When grace changes the heart, submission out of fear changes to submission out of love, and true humility is born.

  William Hendriksen

  Heart, Humility, Grace

  William Hendriksen (1953). “New Testament Commentary: Philippians”

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• What honor can there be without humility? What heights can be reached without being low? The pieces of a chariot are useless unless the work in accordance with the whole A man's life brings nothing unless he lives in accordance with the whole universe Playing one's part in accordance with the universe is true humility So whether you're a gem in the royal court or a stone on the common path If you accept your part with humility the glory of the universe will be yours

  Laozi

  Life, Humility, Men

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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, Humility

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

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• That which we look on with unselfish love
  And true humility is surely ours,
  Even as a lake looks at the stars above
  And makes within itself a heaven of stars.

  Mary Gardiner Brainard

  Stars, Humility, Lakes

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• Accept that you are that - you are the matchless, eternal reality. That's true seeing, true humility.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Buddhism, Reality

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• True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Humility, Self

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• Let me follow in Thy footsteps, O Jesus ! I would imitate Thee, but cannot without the aid of Thy grace! O humble and lowly Saviour, grant me the knowledge of the true Christian, and that I may willingly despise myself; let me learn the lesson so incomprehensible to the mind of man, that I must die to myself by an abandonment that shall produce true humility.

  Francois Fenelon

  Christian, Jesus, Humble

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• True humility is absolute obedience and dependence on God. It puts Him first, others second, and ourselves third in all things.

  John Bevere

  Humility, Firsts, Obedience

  Twitter post from Sep 25, 2014

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• Among the real heroines in the world who will come into the Church are women who are more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish. These real heroines have true humility, which places a higher value on integrity than on visibility. Remember, it is as wrong to do things just to be seen of women as it is to do things to be seen of men. Great women and men are always more anxious to serve than to have dominion.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Integrity, Selfish, Real

  Maren M. Mouritsen, Spencer W. Kimball, Bringham Young University (1980). “Blueprints for living: perspectives for Latter-day Saint women”

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• True humility is a flower which will adorn any garden.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Flower, Humility, Garden

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• true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Humility, Marketing, Surprise

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.61, Random House

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• True humility is expressed in deeds, not words. The humble are those who truly walk the same ground as everyone else - not necessarily with grovelling, hunched backs, but certainly not lording it over others, either.

  Julian Baggini

  Humble, Humility, Deeds

  "'I feel so humble' - the common cry of heroes and villains" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2013.

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• True humility involves opposites. The truly humble work in silence. Because they do not speak of their accomplishments, credit for them can never be taken away.

  Laozi

  Taken, Humility, Humble

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• When it seems that God shows us the faults of others, keep on the safer side-it may be that your judgment is false. On your lips let silence abide. And any vice that you may ascribe to others, ascribe at once to them and yourself, in true humility. If that vice really exists in a person, he will correct himself better, seeing himself so gently understood, and will say of his own accord the thing that you would have said to him.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Humility, Silence, Sides

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• True humility scarcely ever utters words of humility.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Humility, Catholic

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