A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness.

A wise man’s goal shouldn’t be to say something profound, but to say something useful.

Shamed and enraged, I sit by the side of the road and cry.Eclipsed by a sense of disgrace, my emotions feel momentarily stifled and disconnected. Instead of anger, I feel dishonored and exposed. I cannot...

Fresh from the rarefied environments of Harvard, the author says he purposefully took journalism jobs in small southern towns so that he could learn the art of conversation with ordinary people. Is this gift for...

Two classes of people make up the world: those who have found God, and those who are looking for Him – thirsting, hungering, seeking! And the great sinners came closer to Him than the proud...

What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition and settled upon the organ of conviction, where it was never meant to be. A man...

How my emotions starred as I played! During one of this tug-of-war contest between knowing right and doing wrong, I wrote the words to a song on my own for the first time.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

But that is the nature of true grace and spiritual light, that it opens to a person’s view the infinite reason there is that he should be holy in a high degree. And the more...

Gratitude is the heart of humility, and humility is the path to peace, love, and understanding.

This is not just “our” world.

I might paraphrase Churchill and say: never have I received so much for so little.[Exemplifying humility, upon accepting the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.]

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

There too he had been treated with revolting injustice. His struggles, his privations,his hard work to raise himself in the social scale, hadfilled him with such an exalted conviction of his merits that it was...

Your humility is what secures your future and there is nothing like accountability partners who keep you real.

We might not be equal in what we know but we are surely equal, in what we do not know.

Pride and ego makes a mockery of an apology. Humility wins forgiveness without question…so break ‘yo’self’!

There are no souls in the world that are so fearful to judge others as those that do most judge themselves, nor so careful to make a righteous judgment of men or things as those...

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the...

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.”[Modernism’s Patriarch (Time Magazine, June 10, 1996)]

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in boyhood as if they were no concern of the present...

The keys to health and weight-loss: stress reduction, sleep, deep breathing, clean water, complete nutrition, sunshine, walking, stretching, meditation, love, community, laughter, dreams, perseverance, purpose, humility, action.

The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us, and carry out, in our ordinary conduct; the insignficances...

A person’s hope does not drop really till he could not stop to believe truly in himself.

I had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it. Once you realize there is life after mistakes, you gain a self-confidence that never goes away.

Judge Roberts has projected a very unique persona as he has talked about modesty and humility,

Sizing up succinctly his lack of formal education compared with his determination to learn from others, the author writes, “I went to college with every person I ever met.

If you think someone is humble, never tell them so. You will unknowingly rob them of the very thing you admire.

Learning isn’t acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.

During the flames of controversy, opinions, mass disputes, conflict, and world news, sometimes the most precious, refreshing, peaceful words to hear amidst all the chaos are simply and humbly ‘I don’t know.

Maturity is when you’re able to say, ‘It’s not just them. It’s me.

Look here, it’s all very tidy and convenient to see the world in black and white,’ said the Major, trying to soften his tone slightly. ‘It’s a particular passion of young men eager to sweep...

He (Lincoln) differed from fanatical moralists primarily in that he was always perplexed. No sooner did he believe he was doing God’s will that he began to admit that God’s purposes might be different from...

We are like the moon. The moon shines anyway, but it does not produce its own light. It reflects the light illuminated onto its surface by the Sun and is never proud to say “I...

Author says her father was so diplomatic that when people came to him for solutions, people not only accepted them, but they believed they thought of them.

Never allow any level of success to steal your humility. You are not the first person to succeed on earth; neither will you be the last one to do so. Please humble yourself and never...

Academics have given up trying to recover an honest picture of the past and have decided that their history-writing should be simply an instrument of moral hand-wringing.

But we need to pray daily for humility and honesty to see these sinful attitudes for that they really are, and then for grace and discipline to root them out of our minds and replace...

I still get plenty anxious. The weird thing, and the unpleasant surprise for me, of proceeding well into the middle, perhaps even post-prime of my career is that writing books has not got any easier....

Humility and repentance are necessary to restore your relationship with God.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay...

I have always consoled myself that he such as I who is not a genius, can still achieve much that is useful when he does his work right and chooses his work to suit his...

If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear and fanaticism, your religion will always end up worshiping the status quo and...

It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it.

If you feel deserve to judge the arrogant,it’s a sign that you’re so far of humbleness.

In a world full of cynics, critics, and competitors, we get to choose instead to be cheerleaders for others.

Never step on caterpillars, as one day, they’ll become butterflies and you’ll never know when you’ll need a ride on its wings of fortune.

True humility means giving joy to others.

Every subject’s duty is the King’s; but every subject’s soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience;...

Insecurity was never humility; just as arrogance was never success.