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Image of E. M. Forster
I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two qualities: humility and the suspension of the sense of humour.
- E. M. Forster
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Image of Benjamin Franklin
In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Image of Benjamin Franklin
Alas, I know if I ever became truly humble, I would be proud of it.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Suzy Kassem
Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.
- Suzy Kassem
Collection: Humility
Image of Seth Godin
I don't like offending people, and it's easy to offend people when you don't know as much as they do. This group knows more about what it takes to lead in this way than I ever will. My goal is to push people, but I need to do it from a place of respect.
- Seth Godin
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Image of Suzy Kassem
A good man will never harm or oppress another. A good man will share his last morsel of food with others in need, and die of hunger when he no longer has any food -- instead of cheat or steal from others to survive. Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.
- Suzy Kassem
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Image of Elizabeth Gilbert
To find the balance you want, this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have 4 legs instead of 2. That way, you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
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Image of Seth Godin
Our best work can't possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away from those that don't get it unlocks our ability to do great work.
- Seth Godin
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Image of Benjamin Franklin
I've striven my whole life for humility, but if I'd ever achieved it, I'd probably be pretty damn proud of that.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Image of Charles Fort
The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If I can live to be decrepit enough, I shall be a saint.
- Charles Fort
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Image of Benjamin Franklin
My List of Virtues contain'd at first but twelve: But a Quaker Friend having kindly inform'd me that I was generally thought proud; that my Pride show'd itself frequently in Conversation; that I was not content with being in the right when discussing any Point, but was overbearing & rather insolent; of which he convinc'd me by mentioning several Instances; - I determined endeavouring to cure myself ..., and I added Humility to my List, giving an extensive Meaning to the Word.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Image of Pope Francis
If there is no humility, love remains blocked.
- Pope Francis
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Image of Benjamin Franklin
E'er you remark another's sin, bid your own conscience look within.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Image of Jane Goodall
I think I'd like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom not separated from it.
- Jane Goodall
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Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of John Green
I realized that all my life, my values were based upon typical middle-class American values: hard work, doing good, living well, owning things, following the rules & being the best I can be... but God clearly says, "those are not MY values. I value justice, mercy & humility.
- John Green
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Image of Pope Francis
I had the habit of not accepting prizes or honors, but always, not out of humility, but because I don't like them.
- Pope Francis
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Image of Criss Jami
Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are.
- Criss Jami
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Image of Billy Graham
God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements or the size of their capabilities.
- Billy Graham
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Image of Milton Friedman
Humility is the distinguishing virtue of the believer in freedom; arrogance, of the paternalist.
- Milton Friedman
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Image of Paulo Freire
Dialogue cannot exist without humility.
- Paulo Freire
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Pope Francis
Humility saves man: pride makes him lose his way.
- Pope Francis
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is impossible without humility.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Image of Pope Francis
You can't govern without loving the people and without humility!
- Pope Francis
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Image of Pope Francis
How many young people among you are like this? You know how to give and yet you have ever learned how to receive. You still lack one thing. Become a beggar. This is what you still lack. Learn how to beg. This isn’t easy to understand. To learn how to beg. To learn how to receive with humility.
- Pope Francis
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Image of Pope Francis
Let us contemplate the humility of the Son of God born into poverty. Let us imitate him by sharing with those who are weak.
- Pope Francis
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Image of Benjamin Franklin
Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Image of Bayard Taylor
Love's humility is love's true pride.
- Bayard Taylor
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Image of Eric Hoffer
The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.
- Eric Hoffer
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Image of Ernest Hemingway
No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.
- Ernest Hemingway
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Image of Gordon B. Hinckley
God will bless us if we walk in humility.
- Gordon B. Hinckley
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Image of Saint Augustine
If you should ask me what are the ways of God, I would tell you that the first is humility, the second is humility, and the third is humility. Not that there are no other precepts to give, but if humility does not preceed all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.
- Saint Augustine
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Image of Saint Augustine
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being little. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. Modest humility is beauty's crown.
- Saint Augustine
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Image of Herbert Hoover
Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man.
- Herbert Hoover
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Image of Saint Augustine
Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.
- Saint Augustine
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Image of Kedar Joshi
History is an orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured.
- Kedar Joshi
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Image of Francis of Assisi
What wonderful majesty! What stupendous condescension! O sublime humility! That the Lord of the whole universe, God and the Son of God, should humble Himself like this under the form of a little bread, for our salvation ...In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood.
- Francis of Assisi
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Image of Zoe Kazan
It's a good thing I learned some humility and perspective as I got older.
- Zoe Kazan
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Image of John Heywood
Cut your coat according to your cloth.
- John Heywood
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Image of Saint Augustine
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending.
- Saint Augustine
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Image of Khaled Hosseini
I may not agree with all or even most of the tribal traditions, but it seems ti me that, out there, people live more authentic lives. They have a sturdiness about them. A refreshing humility. Hospitality too. And resilience. A sense of pride.
- Khaled Hosseini
Collection: Humility
Image of Saint Augustine
You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation.
- Saint Augustine
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Image of Matthew Henry
Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance of humility.
- Matthew Henry
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Image of Eric Hoffer
Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.
- Eric Hoffer
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