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.

Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded modern who has lost his rootage in the land assumes that he has...

when the serpent breathed the poison of his pride, the desire to be as God, into the hearts of our first parents, that they too fell from their high estate into all the wretchedness in...

Presenting a humble façade gains trust; flattery appeals to ego; combine the two to gain an ego-based trust within someone, and you will find in your hands a judgement clouding tool second only to love.

When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

To nurture your career, it makes sense to cultivate your strengths. To nurture your moral core, it is necessary to confront your weaknesses.

Paulette had never been flush with self-confidence. People took that as humility, but humility isn’t painful and crippling. She hadn’t yet learned that humble and self-destructive aren’t the same thing at all. They’re not even...

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men – to dish it out without being able to take it – the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

All individuals have moral deficiencies, and when introducing these to reality one not only strengthens himself but also the confidence of others in the human exigency for Christ due to a reflection throughout the body...

There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you’re wrong and you can’t face it; the other is when you’re right and nobody else can face it.

Respond to critics with humility. Most people are experts in finding problems with whatever others do. That should not be a surprise to you.

Humility Preceeds Glory

A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other graces, but it is very difficult to counterfeit humility. You soon detect mock humility.

The wisest word man reaches is the humblest he can speak.

Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers’, but, where experience is...

The most beautiful women I have known had one thing in common apart from beauty: humility. It’s a shame that those with less to boast about do it the most.

The counselee should be aware that you are not God. Better yet, she should be aware that you are aware that you are not God.

My dear, here is lesson number one for using opportunity; waste no time on false humility. Tell the world about your achievements don’t wait for someone else to do it.

That’s an animal fable about humility. If you survive your mistake, you must learn from it. Accept that you’re fragile, vulnerable, and sometimes stupid. Realize that you’re not immortal and you’ve got to take care...

I don’t purchase people with money, or hiss like a snake to attract their attention, all i do is to rest on my couch because i have the conviction that no human can progress with...

By being high, you become low and by being low, you become high. By being humble, you become high.

Often it takes outer authority to send us on the path to our own inner authority.

There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God.

Humility is a Divine property and the perfection of the Christian life. It is attained through obedience. He who is not obedient cannot gain humility. There are very few in the world today who have...

In the history of the world many souls have been, are, and will be, and with a little reflection this is marvelous and not depressing. Many jerks are made gloomy about it, for they think...

The disillusionment with our own abilities is, perhaps, one of the most important things that can ever happen to us.

Suns are extinguished or become corrupted, planets perish and scatter across the wastes of the sky; other suns are kindled, new planets formed to make their revolutions or describe new orbits, and man, an infinitely...

The factor that made him so powerful was also his greatest liability.

If we could see things from a sufficient height above we should all realize that we are in fact proper objects of pity.

I feels sorrier for him than anybody I knows. I expect he done read more books than any white man in this town. He done read more books and he done worried about more things....

Most people make it difficult to understand with their lifestyle & stand especially to a helping hand if they don’t understand or they don’t want to understand as whom they should accept as their friend.

If you go in thinking that you’re smarter than everyone else, you want in a learning very much. If you go in thinking, “I’d sure like to understand this better,” you end up doing precisely...

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it...

Integrity comes not from privilege, textbooks, or profession, but from being grounded in humility.

It may be that Christians, notwithstanding corporate worship, common prayer, and all their fellowship in service, may still be left to their loneliness. The final break-through to fellowship does not occur, because, though they have...

If you can grasp those two truths—you are made in His image and dependent on Him—you will discover a great dignity and at the same time a profound humility.

I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.

Creativity is the highest form of intelligence. Over time, after developing a more advanced creative brain, I started feeling that my college education was more so something to be ashamed of rather than something to...

He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them...

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

You can become the greatest personality in your community by developing the sagacity of humility, teachability, prosperity-mentality and accountability.

We subscribe into God’s unlimited plan when we kneel in humility, live in grace and reach-out in love

Don’t let proud get to your head, always humble yourself.

You are infinitely my superior in merit; all that I know – You have qualities which I had not supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of...

After Galileo, Einstein and even Freud, we try to hang onto a pathetic sort of significance on this planet and in this universe, that we are in some way more special than anything else. Our...

I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don’t mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not...

The greatest wisdom consists in knowing one’s own follies.

For me, walking in a hard Dakota wind can be like staring at the ocean: humbled before its immensity, I also have a sense of being at home on this planet, my blood so like...