until the stone becomes soft, it cannot attach itself to the wall.

He didn’t mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn’t matter.

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that’s...

One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he is more learned, but that another is richer in reason scarcely any will...

When you are convinced that what you offer is yours, whether it be mediocre or of standard quality, your originality will make people love you in a way you did not expect.

The humble one is the better one.

Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?

True greatness demands humility; the journey draws it from your struggling soul.

The Marquesa would even have been astonished to learn that her letters were very good, for such authors live always in the noble weather of their own minds and those productions which seem remarkable to...

If the opposite of certainty is doubt, humility must lie somewhere between the two,

A smile is a humble hidden treasure everyman has been endowed with that does not reveal itself until it is called for.

It hurt to think that a boy would not have him at his value of himself.

It is not your beauty, success or money that should define you; neither should your church calling, your charitable contributions or talents. Humility is the cornerstone of character, by which God judges our truth worth,...

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

When man comes into the presence of God he will find, whether he wishes it or not, that all those things which seemed to make him so different from the men of other times, or...

Real humility knows how to slam a door closed and say no more. You can’t be humble without self-love.

While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud’s work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently...

It is easy to do good, but it takes a lifetime to become human!

The process of enlightenment and evolution can never happen without the realisation of shortcomings. People, when they think they are the best and can’t get any better, are easily offended when others see room for...

The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness.

If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.

If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, “He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not...

My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.

It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.

Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.

Humility makes us more friendly Happiness makes us more lively.Love makes us more caringDream makes us more daring.Trust makes us more forgivingKindness makes us more loving.Hope gives us the joy of dreamingPeace gives us the...

Amory, sorry for them, was still not sorry for himself – art, politics, religion, whatever his medium should be, he knew he was safe now, free from all hysteria – he could accept what was...

you teach people how to treat you by how you treat people

For with any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. There comes a certain point in such conditions when only three things are possible: first a perpetuation of Satanic pride, secondly tears,...

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

Not ordinarily do men achieve this balance of opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The militant are not generally known to be passive, nor the passive to...

Spiritual pride tends to speak of other persons’ sins with bitterness or with laughter and levity and an air of contempt. But pure Christian humility rather tends either to be silent about these problems or...

If pain doesn’t lead to humility, you have wasted your suffering.

The larvae you see today would grow into a large butterfly tomorrow. Size is what you see now, allow the clock to tick, then check on the size again.

Entrepreneur, stay hungry, stay humble & stay hopeful.

Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment instead. It is such a willingness to live with bewilderment that characterizes the true wise man.

We can be knowledgeable with another man’s knowledge, but we can’t be wise with another man’s wisdom.

The narrator finds that as a maturing character grows in stature before her friends that she sees less stature while evaluating herself.

He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on a stoical indifference to the fright afterward.” Jefferson Davis’s future wife describing...

As for the fear, you’ll have to put up with that like the rest of us.

You cannot exalt God and yourself at the same time.

Tim Tebow’s Dad turned a screw-up into a testimony when a fire to burn weeds in a field got out of control. With his family still smelling like smoke from containing the fire, he conducted...

Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. And to come to that understanding it is necessary, even now, to leave the regions of our conquest – the...

It’s better to find success through God, than finding it on one’s own merits; some who usually find their own success become boastful, where through God it’s with gratitude.

A vulgar mind is proud in prosperity and humble in adversity. A noble mind is humble in prosperity and proud in adversity.

Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God.

Every penny that has always been earned with integrity by a person to lead life with a real simplicity has only perhaps helped to serve Almighty & protect and preserve humanity in the society.

People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with ‘welcome’ written on it.

Have a heart which does not trample down simplicity and humility.

We shall, as we ripen in grace, have greater sweetness towards our fellow Christians. Bitter-spirited Christians may know a great deal, but they are immature. Those who are quick to censure may be very acute...