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Image of Saint Augustine
...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.
- Saint Augustine
Collection: Humility
Image of Hermann Hesse
It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.
- Hermann Hesse
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Image of Saint Augustine
Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.
- Saint Augustine
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Image of Saint Augustine
Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.
- Saint Augustine
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Image of Saint Augustine
No one reaches the kingdom of Heaven except by humility
- Saint Augustine
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Image of Christopher Hitchens
The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
- Christopher Hitchens
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Image of Dag Hammarskjold
Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.
- Dag Hammarskjold
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Image of Saint Augustine
You cannot attain to charity except through humility.
- Saint Augustine
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Image of Kathy Acker
The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility.
- Kathy Acker
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Image of Vaclav Havel
The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. Concepts such as love, friendship, compassion, humility or forgiveness lost their depth and dimension.
- Vaclav Havel
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Image of Saint Augustine
Humility is first, second and third in Christianity.
- Saint Augustine
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Image of Saint Augustine
There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.
- Saint Augustine
Collection: Humility
Image of Saint Augustine
The way to Christ is first through humility, second through humility, and third through humility. If humility does not precede and accompany and follow every good work we do, if it is not before us to focus on, it it is not beside us to lean upon, if it is not behind us to fence us in, pride will wrench from our hand any good deed we do at the very moment we do it.
- Saint Augustine
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Image of Jane Austen
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.
- Jane Austen
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Image of Ernest Hemingway
Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.
- Ernest Hemingway
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Image of Saint Augustine
The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.
- Saint Augustine
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Image of Vaclav Havel
Man is not an omipotent master of the universe, allowed to do with impunity whatever he thinks, or whatever suits him at the moment. The world we live in is made of an immensely complex and mysterious tissue about which we know very little and which we must treat with utmost humility.
- Vaclav Havel
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Image of William Gurnall
Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.
- William Gurnall
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Image of Eric Hoffer
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
- Eric Hoffer
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Image of Meher Baba
One of the most difficult things to learn is to render service without bossing, without making a fuss about it, and without any consciousness of high and low. In the world of spirituality, humility counts at least as much as utility.
- Meher Baba
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Image of David Hume
When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.
- David Hume
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Franz Kafka
Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.
- Franz Kafka
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Image of Philip James Bailey
Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.
- Philip James Bailey
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Image of Leigh Hunt
May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility.
- Leigh Hunt
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Image of Thomas a Kempis
If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity and faith, and seek not at any time the fame of being learned.
- Thomas a Kempis
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Image of Francis Bacon
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
- Francis Bacon
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Image of Pico Iyer
Travel is an act of humility
- Pico Iyer
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Image of Thomas a Kempis
Study to do another's will rather than thine own. Choose ever to have less rather than more. Seek ever the lower place and to be subject to all; ever wish and pray that the will of God may be perfectly done in thee and in all. Behold such a man enters the bounds of peace and calm.
- Thomas a Kempis
Collection: Humility
Image of Byron Katie
I saw that we're all doing the best we can. This is how a lifetime of humility begins.
- Byron Katie
Collection: Humility
Image of Muhammad Ali Jinnah
I have lived as plain Mr. Jinnah and I hope to die as plain Mr. Jinnah. I am very much averse to any title or honours and I will be more than happy if there was no prefix to my name.
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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Image of Samuel Johnson
As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry.
- Samuel Johnson
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Image of Robert Green Ingersoll
The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn-the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
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Image of Bruce Lee
Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation.
- Bruce Lee
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Image of Walter Lippmann
A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.
- Walter Lippmann
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Image of C. S. Lewis
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.
- C. S. Lewis
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Image of Ann Landers
Maturity is humility. It is being big enough to say, "I was wrong." And, when he/she is right, the mature person need not experience the satisfaction of saying, "I told you so."
- Ann Landers
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Image of Hosea Ballou
The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.
- Hosea Ballou
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Image of C. S. Lewis
Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?
- C. S. Lewis
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Image of C. S. Lewis
Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.
- C. S. Lewis
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Image of C. S. Lewis
To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.
- C. S. Lewis
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Image of D. H. Lawrence
We are so conceited and so unproud.
- D. H. Lawrence
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Image of Jared Leto
I think people would be surprised by his [Alessandro Michele] humility.
- Jared Leto
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Image of Abraham Lincoln
I was born and have ever remaind [sic] in the most humble walks of life.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Image of Letitia Elizabeth Landon
From religion ... they will learn the only true lesson of equality - the conviction that our destinies are not in our own hands; they will see that no situation in life is without its share of suffering; - and this perpetual reference to a higher power ought equally to teach the rich humility, and the poor devotion.
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Image of C. S. Lewis
If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it.
- C. S. Lewis
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Image of Vince Lombardi
Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.
- Vince Lombardi
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Image of C. S. Lewis
Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.
- C. S. Lewis
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Image of C. S. Lewis
The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.
- C. S. Lewis
Collection: Humility