Quotes of: Humility Keyword

Humility is patient because it is neither past nor forward seeking — it is content.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Embrace the magical gift of serenity in your daily life. Nothing beats patience, humility, honesty and tranquility.

Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul

When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Humility is an essential quality in writers who want to write well.

Marlin, Darlin': Garnet Sullivan Live from Florida #1

It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.

The Sense of Wonder

True greatness demands humility; the journey draws it from your struggling soul.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

One common cause of this mistake of preferring to imagine and admire a great ideal instead of beginning to do little deeds is our impatience with little baby steps, our lack of humility.

Prayer for Beginners

When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.

The Pillars of the Earth

Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

Père Goriot

Atheism is a way of humility. It's to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself to become human.

Presentations de La Philosophie

Where the establishment emphasized humility, prudence, lineage, meritocracy celebrates ambition, achievement, brains&self-betterment

Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy

Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.

A Treatise of Human Nature

Perhaps elements like tenacity and humility combine to form a heroic compound.

Turn Left At The Trojan Horse: A Would-Be Hero's American Odyssey

People who have trouble questioning their own country often have trouble admitting fault in themselves, both of which come from insecurity and lack of humility.

Voice of Reason

As I was to learn, patience and latitude and even humility are, paradoxically, the handmaidens of wealth, because virtue is costly only for those who own nothing else.

Wayfaring Stranger

...goals not bathed in prayer or brought in humility before the Lord turn out to be downright useless. They don't go anywhere. They don't accomplish anything.

Moses: A Man of Selfless Dedication

Some of you need a lesson in humility. While your arrogance may give you a sense of power, it may serve you better to put it aside. Those are the times you will be the light of the world.

J 'son M. Lee

Pope Francis has stressed humility and austerity - a far cry, according to many, from the predecessor's bling and Ferragamo shoes - those were pretty entertaining. And he's translating all of that into a policy agenda.

Ronan Farrow

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of hu...

Tom Hiddleston

I might paraphrase Churchill and say: never have I received so much for so little. [Exemplifying humility, upon accepting the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.]

Luis Federico Leloir

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Mahatma Gandhi