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

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

My greatest concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are concerned with your failure.

His whole effort, therefore, will be to get the man’s mind off the subject of his own value altogether. He would rather the man thought himself a great architect or a great poet and then...

Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.

If a person’s life objective has been endorsed by his inner call, then he is bound to repeatedly fail and fall for he is scaling up the wall which is very tall and that’s not...

With so much effort being poured into church growth, so much press being given to the benefits of faith, and so much flexing of religious muscle in the public square, the poor in spirit have...

Be careful not to mistake insecurity and inadequacy for humility! Humility has nothing to do with the insecure and inadequate! Just like arrogance has nothing to do with greatness!

For my own part, my constant prayer is that I may know the worst of my case, whatever the knowledge may cost me. I know that an accurate estimate of my own heart can never...

Those who wish to stand tallest must kneel lowest.

All of yesterday’s ballers are today’s road sweepers.

Frasier (Responding to the suggestion that he undertake the difficult work of closure in a relationship): “What you just said about my success made a lot of sense. I tuned you out after that.

Hypocrisy versus authenticity among men is not always so black and white, and as is righteousness, humility is often self-proclaimed. The Church is most definitely supposed to be a hospital for the spiritually, emotionally, mentally,...

Never wear pride as the jersey of your dreams. You will miss the goal and lose your dreams if you put on pride!

Modesty is a noble expression of honesty

The Patriots had picked Brady in the sixth round, and he soon turned out to be one of the two or three best quarterbacks in the League, and absolutely perfect for the Belichick system and...

When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.

But the truth is that there is no more conscious inconsistency between the humility of a Christian and the rapacity of a Christian than there is between the humility of a lover and the rapacity...

Sometimes a woman has experienced too much life to have any blush left in her cheeks, but the man who puts it there is someone not easily forgotten.

True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.

Truthfulness requires humility as well as courage.

I believe our legacy will be defined by the accomplishments and fearless nature by which our daughters and sons take on the global challenges we face. I also wonder if perhaps the most lasting expression...

No one is charismatic. Someone becomes charismatic in history, socially. The question for me is once again the problem of humility. If the leader discovers that he is becoming charismatic not because of his or...

True knowledge should not produce pride; it should produce humility…Because the more you know, the more you know how much you don’t know.

The author’s Socrates admonishes paramount awareness human limitations. If we do good to those we evaluate as good and evil to those we evaluate at the evil, and we are wrong, we have been made...

true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing

What causes all this?””Pride. What else?

A man should not glory in what he already knows but in what he has yet to learn.

You don’t have to be a big name to do big things. Shine does not require recognition.

I had such a hard time giving all the glory to God when first accepting Him as Lord. Coming out of a theatre background where there were many applauds and accolades, I suffered from what...

We don’t really know anything. Those who accept this are more likely to learn something.

Peace can only be achieved by a contrite spirit, open communication and tolerance.

It was amusing to me to see how the detective’s overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a child asking questions of its teacher.

His way was like other people’s; he mounted no high horse; he was justa man and a citizen. He indulged in no Socratic irony. But hisdiscourse was full of Attic grace; those who heard it...

Stand by; for I am holier than you!” What a parody on holiness! Jesus the Holy One is the humble One: the holiest will ever be the humblest. There is none holy but God: we...

A person could himself distinguish the human beings into different kind only, but a different person being only kind could distinguish himself to be a human.

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? Micah 6:8

Bob Dylan’s Christianity has been allusive, idiosyncratic, and never the sort to place him on anyone’s side in any Kulturkampf.

There are heroes and schmucks in all worlds. The most important thing is whether you are willing to engage in moral struggle against yourself.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny.

For the believer, humility is honesty about one’s greatest flaws to a degree in which he is fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.

The sciences have two extremities which meet. The first is the ignorance in which men find themselves at birth. The second is that attained by great souls. They have surveyed whatever man can know, find...

If Christians insist only on condemning what they don’t like, they will cut themselves off from that shared cultural life.

A major element in Lincoln’s greatness was the way in which he could hold a strong moral position without the usual accompaniment of self-righteousness.

No matter how great you ‘think’ you are or how successful you’ve become. Never forget those who have lifted you up. Never forget life’s experiences, both good and bad which have shaped you as a...

If you will only consider, you will remember many a person of whom the world never heard and will never hear, whose years have been as full of generosity, loyalty to duty, faith in God,...

We must learn to live with contradictions, to have faith in skepticism, to advance toward the solution of a problem by admitting as a possibility that it may be insoluble.

Unlike Kim Cardassian or Donald Trump, Montaigne regarded the inward glance as an adventure in self-effacement not self infatuation. He was a charming and perceptive critic of his own foibles, especially alert to his weakness...

If someone were to ask whether communications skills or meekness is most important to a marriage, I’d answer meekness, hands down. You can be a superb communicator but still never have the humility to ask,...