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.

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

PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration.

GK Chesterton was not afraid to combine serious Christian themes with buffoonery.

Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it takes, but also by what it gives. And powerlessness reaffirmed not just by the helplessness...

People may like a person’s thought for its touching words, but they like him truly for his own deeds touching their heart.

Management” of anything as complicated as a woods requires more humility than comes easily to our species, at least in its American incarnation.

The deeper we grow in the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the poorer we become – the more we realize that everything in life is a gift. The tenor of our lives becomes one of humble...

In every family there is a murderer, a thief and a crazy person. And if you have a little Blue blood in the line, you can be sure there are more than one of each.

…there began to come to her a first dim realization of God’s humility. Rejected by the proud in His own right by what humble means He chose to succor them; through the spirit of a...

God had spoken to His people through His Word. It had humbled them in their sins, but it had lifted them up to see the grace and mercy of God, and then had directed them...

There is nothing new under the sun but that of the Son. Man’s rebellion against God has always been because he would rather fall in pride than rise in humility.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

But the vicar of St. Botolph’s had certainly escaped the slightest tincture of the Pharisee, and by dint of admitting to himself that he was too much as other men were, he had become remarkably...

Simplicity gives you the power of freedom.Kindness gives you the power of boldness.Humility gives you the power of acceptance.

LearningTo believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons. Secure in its reality, the self is neither better nor worse, bigger nor...

Learn to forgive “HATERS” and people who think less of you. Don’t bring yourself down to their level, because you know who you are. Be HUMBLE and shower them with unexpected love.

I should wish to see them very good friends, and would, on no account, authorize in my girls the smallest degree of arrogance towards their relations; but still they cannot be equals.” (10)

I have learned in life to be happy regardless of life circumstancesI have learned in life to be humble in greatnessI have learned in life to respect everyone and not to look down upon othersI...

Christianity, true Christianity, is experienced when we crucify the anger, pride, vanity and lust that dwells within ourselves and consciously replace it with the sacrificial love, humility, modesty and chasteness of the One who so...

Wisdom of the Ages: “Humility” If you don’t have it, you’re gonna get it.

I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a...

Most insensible, corrupt, cheap, disrespectful young girls run after bad, rude, cocky, nonsensical boys, but a mature, educated, thoughtful, virtuos lady opts for a wise, well breed, experienced, humble, modest gentleman.

Vision and persistence will take you to the top of the leadership mountain, but only humility will keep you there.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Never believe you’re so great or important, so right or proud, that you cannot kneel at the feet of someone you hurt and offer a humble, sincere apology.

A partner’s different perspective is valuable, but the very fact that it is different means that it will require work, humility, time, and resources to incorporate that perspective. At times, this will require checking one’s...

Everyone can take pride in this new facility. But it is a pride tempered with humility, the humility of knowing what these new systems will be used for. They will be used for safeguarding our...

I am not posing these questions only to the world at large. I query us who own Christ as our life. Can God be pleased by the vast and increasing inequities among us? Is he...

They (Reagan and Kennedy) had some combination of cheerfulness and vulnerability that made them seem like boys on adventure who had become lost in needed a small kindness to get them back on the right...

If I turn mine eyes upon myself, I find myself a traitor with the rest;

Humility is the nearly impossible task of being more concerned with our own sins that we are with the sins of others.

We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a...

A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things.

Here is the path to the higher life: down, lower down! Just as water always seeks and fills the lowest place, so the moment God finds men abased and empty, His glory and power flow...

It’s so easy to understand even an unknown person’s real nature through the things that he likes, but it’s possible only to a few people who are actually caring to others for being true to...

Humility is not just thinking less of yourself or thinking lanyard less of your gifts than others,It is freedom from thinking of yourself at all

If you lack the humility to go back and tie up the loose ends in your past, then be prepared to forever be haunted by her ghosts, all of whom will come into your present...

Sorrow is humbling. I want my pain to be fabulous. I don’t need my pain to be worse than anyone else’s; I just want it to be strangely, uniquely mine. Art to someone else’s breakdown....

Don’t settle for helping those who will help you in return or doing a good deed for others to see. Help others without expecting anything back. Even if nobody else cares, God will notice.

Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.

A man needs to feel powerful and respected. Innately within us, as far back as we can remember, we have taught ourselves to grand stand in our abilities to be tough, to conquer, to impress...

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.

Be humble and set the balls of your dreams rolling till God himself decides what next! As for “pride”, allow it to go as a lone ranger!

There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people.

When a man truly sees himself, he knows nobody can say anything about him that is too bad.

You speak about modesty and humility,

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.