Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

Just remember, when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do.

People tend to think that money makes them strong, but it’s those that learn to survive without it, are truly the stronger.

I too was pinched off from a piece of clay, I too modeled by omnipotence and flankedby things too wonderful for me

Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is...

I’m a writer by profession and it’s totally clear to me that since I started blogging, the amount I write has increased exponentially, my daily interactions with the views of others have never been so...

[Soetsu Yanagi’s] main criticism of individual craftsmen and modern artists is that they are overproud of their individualism. I think I am right in saying Yanagi’s belief was that the good artist of craftsman has...

A little humility and laughter in our life is good medicine for us! Especially at our own expense! This is how we grow! This is how our spirit survives with essence!

One piece of wisdom a writer quickly learns ~ typos keep you humble.

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.

The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one’s own accord – it feels great – but...

When everyone believes they are the life coaches, who are the players?

When making a point, there are 2 types of people who may disagree with you: those who can support their reasons, and the childish ones who are too worried about being told what to do.

Often, your mentors are already in your life; you just haven’t yet found a way to learn from them.

Get rid of pride; it’ll only ride you to the wrong side of life. May God’s words guide your faith to abide in true humility. Kick off pride; embrace humility!

People often told him how humble he was, but they did not mean real humility, it was merely that he did not flaunt his membership in the wealthy club, did not exercise the rights it...

At some thoughts one stands perplexed – especially at the sight of men’s sin – and wonders whether one should use force or humble love. Always decide to use humble love. If you resolve on...

I’m a weak man, Navani. I really am. If I give myself a few feet of leeway, I burst through all of my prohibitions.

Much of history is fragmentary and essentially anachronistic – condemning the past for not being more like the present. It has no real interest in the pastness of the past.

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.

To please God, live a godly life and nurture kindness, compassion, justice, and humility.

When you’re thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.

Woe is me, I am ruined. For I am a man of unclean lips and I live among a people of unclean lips” (Isaiah 6:5). Isaiah was one of the most godly men who ever...

I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized...

Losing well was a gift, but winning well is this stuff of the authentic manhood.

History teacher Bob Alston’s “expertise late not in his sweeping knowledge of the topic but in his ability to pick after a tumble, to get a fix on what he does not know, and to...

Harshaw had the arrogant humility of the man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ignorance and he saw no point in ‘measurements’ when he did not know what he...

The toughest thing worth losing is Pride.

A man in trouble laments that he did not listen to his teachers, and thus he finds himself in a sad state, utter ruin. A candid admission of a blunder is refreshing and not often...

The acknowledgement of our shortcomings renders the truth of our need.

Humility is not a one time lesson that comes when you have lost everything. It is a daily reminder of how far we have come, yet still short of who we can be through HIS...

The Oracle at Delphi contained three maxims emblematic of Greek life. “Know yourself.” “Nothing in excess.” and, “Offer a guarantee and disaster threatens.

Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call ‘humble’ nowadays: he will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who is always telling you...

The Holy Spirit builds on the smooth ground of humility. That’s why God will tear you down in order to build you back up.

People who have trouble questioning their own country often have trouble admitting fault in themselves, both of which come from insecurity and lack of humility.

The author points out strikingly different reactions to calamity. While many passengers of a devastating shipwreck were thankful to be alive, future presidential assassin Charles Guiteau saw his being spared as proof of his exceptionalism...

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,The proper study of mankind is Man.Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,A being darkly wise and rudely great:With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side,With too...

Students in the school of prayer never graduate from the school of the Gospel.

[T]he road to character is built by confronting your own weakness.

I will never have greater respect than for the man that realizes he was wrong and graciously admits it without a single excuse.

Every time I create something, whether an idea or a work of art, initially, its supposed completion seems absolutely perfect to me. However the more I think about it, stare it down, the more it...

To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.

Reality. Sometimes it comes through foreign eyes; because if you don’t know any better, you can’t see the worse. Or vice versa.

Saying of the ProphetHumilityHumility and courtesy are themselves a part of piety.

A man who can own pearls does not bother about shells, and those who aspire to virtue do not trouble themselves over honors.

The proper way is lost to me; my compass spins. I therefore give my entire attention to those works that seem to me most incorruptible: the application of heat, the proportion of seasoning, the arrangement...

The Lord has put more hardships atop the shoulders of my neighbors — more than I can even fathom coping with. I will strive to find a way to turn pity into admiration, for what...

Lord, help me to begin to begin.

You hand over control, you start winning.