Through life, I want to walk gently. I want to treat all of life – the earth and its people – with reverence. I want to remove my shoes in the presence of holy ground....

Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels...

It is neither just the religious, the spiritual, the power-hungry, the evil, the ignorant, the corrupt, the Christian, the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Jew, nor the atheist that makes a hypocrite, but being...

The humble sinner will sometimes be interpreted as one of the filthiest in the eyes of man yet immersed in the eyes of God, and this is due to the volition of honesty regarding his...

The devil…the prowde spirite…cannot endure to be mocked.

Simplicity and humility, not power or status, will bring you joy and happiness.

A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn’t know.

If you are humble you will never have to struggle against positive change.

The prideful man qualifies himself by what people think of him, always looking for applause. There is another proud man; head bloodied by the world but eyes focused on what is good, never caring about...

It’s okay to be honest about not knowing rather than spreading falsehood. While it is often said that honesty is the best policy, silence is the second best policy.

I am not the moon orbiting around your planet; I am the sun that will burn through your frozen mind.

I overreacted to praise, signing an autograph. I’d write a check to buy it back.

The ultimate story of success: When a nobody, who has never once in his entire life known the feeling of being remembered or respected, suddenly snaps and becomes a world dictator. On one hand it...

Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend.

I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don’t even need or want to look ‘intelligent’ anymore.

When an illiterate gets angry, you’ll get to understand that calmness is probably a sign of education.

I’m sure I am wrong about many things, although I’m not sure exactly which things I’m wrong about. I’m even sure I’m wrong about what I think I’m right about in at least some cases.

There is only One on record who has practiced Christianity in every respect at every moment of his life – Christ himself. In that sense, there are no practicing Christians, but only Christians who, in...

Real humility is graceful power, not a mandate to be victimized and abused.

Life is like an extremely toughest examination and so the passing percentage of its students is abysmally low; a person with his 70 % contributions of the true kind deeds has only cleared it with...

Humility is hard when someone has things like wealth, knowledge, & recognition that may tempt him/her behave and act pridefully. Otherwise, worrying about pride without these factors that predispose you, it is just an illusion.

Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home.

I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.

Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.

I have the charisma of the chipmunk. I never have thought I was smart. I thought the people I dealt with were dumb.

God wants us to humbly and sincerely ask him things. How often do you enjoy people talking about you without taking the time to get to know you?

When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything – that is the definition of conviction.

Love is like a buffalo with butterfly wings, and I’m just the humble man in the jetpack trying to shoot it down with a bow and arrow.

… the Sufi attitude is: ‘Let the real truth, whatever it may be, be revealed to me’.

Humility is a virtue that one can find, in which God in heaven rejoices ,and in His love he enfolds you, close to his heart He does bind.

There is a humility about genuine love that is rather horrible in some ways.

The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one’s narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in...

Good things come to those who ate. I’m going to wait to eat. I just got done swallowing my pride, and I’ll be full for the foreseeable future.

Oh … why not?’ he smiled. “This valley is a pleasant spot for meditation. I like New England… it is here that I have experienced some of my greatest successes – and several notable defeats....

Not one thing we’ve done changes that we are his. That he created us and loves us with a love more fierce and loyal than any we will ever know. He isn’t looking for perfection....

These are the few ways we can practice humility:To speak as little as possible of one’s self.To mind one’s own business.Not to want to manage other people’s affairs.To avoid curiosity.To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully.To...

We will never be cleansed until we confess we are dirty. And we will never be able to wash the feet of those who have hurt us until we allow Jesus, the one we have...

False humility is the pride of not being proud, real humility is without the consciousness that pride exists.

The better we become, the higher we climb. The higher we climb, the bigger our ego. The bigger the ego, the harder it is for us to look at others the same way we did...

We need mystery. Creator in her wisdom knew this. Mystery fills us with awe and wonder. They are the foundations of humility, and humility is the foundation of all learning. So we do not seek...

Let them hear your voice so rarely that a simply-uttered word creates a hush of expectancy in the room.

Confidence is this: Wearing your triumphs with humility, and wearing your scars with pride. Many of us do precisely the opposite.

True humility is being able to accept criticisms as graciously as we accept compliments.

False humility is better than no humility at all.

Anyone can possess, anyone can profess, but it is an altogether different thing to confess.

Always remember, no matter how big you get in life, God is still bigger; when you feel to be at your lowest point, Satan is still at the bottom.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.

A person’s reputation is like a glass panel that remains protected till it remains fitted in the strong and durable frame of the good character.

Modesty has, and will remain, an alluring trait because where egoism falters, humility conquers.