Quotes with humility

  • The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.
  • Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.
  • And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
  • The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
  • A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
  • If every moment is sacred, and If you are amazed and in awe most of the time when you find yourself breathing and not crazy, then you are in a state of constant thankfulness, worship and humility.
  • Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
  • With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.
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  • Rabindranath Tagore We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
    Rabindranath Tagore
    Indian mystic and poet (1861 - 1941)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasions to change.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • John Ray There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
    John Ray
    English naturalist (1627 - 1705)
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  • Alice Walker 'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Carroll Quigley ...human beings have religious needs. They have a need for a feeling of certitude in their minds about things they cannot control and they do not fully understand, and with humility, they admit they do not understand...
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • C. S. Lewis A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Jackie Mason By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?
    Jackie Mason
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1928 - 2021)
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  • Leo Tolstoy Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment and its wars.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Robert M. Lindner Conformity, humility, acceptance... with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.
    Robert M. Lindner
    American author and psychologist (1914 - 1956)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Alan Cohen Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • William S. Burroughs Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Fran Lebowitz Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Margaret Halsey Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
    Margaret Halsey
    American writer
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  • Cass Sunstein Humility is of central importance; I think it's an underappreciated virtue in the contemporary discussion of law and politics.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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