Some of you need a lesson in humility. While your arrogance may give you a sense of power, it may serve you better to put it aside. Those are the times you will be the...

Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer...

The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph into arrogance that Death loves to prove unfounded.

If we had not experienced our deep sinfulness and Jesus’ deep forgiveness through the cross, we will not love others well in the midst of their struggles. If we do not see the beauty and...

Live life with great humility.

In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend...

To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference. While consumer culture speaks only to preferences, treating even whims as needs to...

Cockiness is a display of an empty lifestyle, humility is when you see yourself as a zero while others are making you their hero.

Ingratitude produces pride while gratitude produces humility.

With a little more patience and a little less temper, a gentler and wiser method might be found in almost every case; and the knot that we cut by some fine heady quarrel-scene in private...

Plimpton was a presence. He looked for ways in which he could make himself ridiculous. That made him a great storyteller.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

It was easier to be the headstrong monk, a boy on a long-shot mission, before he actually won anything. With the prize in hand, he realized his single-minded drive came across as aloof cockiness; his...

… no sensitive Christian can be satisfied with a distinction between righteousness and unrighteousness drawn only between communities, with each individual belonging unambiguously on one or the other side of the line. The behavior of...

You will only learn in a fight how much you’ve got to learn.

Truth was never meant to make you comfortable, unless you stand in the middle of it with acceptance.

Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

I dread government in the name of science. That is how tyrannies come in. In every age the men who want us under their thumb, if they have any sense, will put forward the particular...

Life is not a competition with others. Life is a competition with yourself—to do your personal best each day.

Philosophy is not to think deep, but simply speak life’s basics that arise, aware and awaken people who are knowingly or unknowingly in the state of sleep.

Hu-man, Hu-mility, Hu-manity, is a title of nobility of the Perfected One, one who has knowledge of its self, and living its essence

The humble woman is surprised by all the good that she sees around her rather than scandalized by what she cannot judge anyway. The humble woman is grateful for her successes but not disheartened by...

It is a long journey, not just as a writer, but as a human being. Take nothing and no one for granted, be humble always, be kind especially when it’s difficult and never forget the...

One cannot simply read the Bible, like other books. One must be prepared really to enquire of it. Only thus will it reveal itself. Only if we expect from it the ultimate answer, shall we...

Christ-as always, the model-never sat back, crossed his arms, and dismissed the annoying, the troublesome, or the unpromising. He never name-called, never judged, never treated a single person with contempt. Christ talked to everybody, he...

It is good to be taught humility when we are young. If we do not exeperience pain as children, we will cause pain as adults.

With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.

Humility has nothing to do with depreciating ourselves and our gifts in ways we know to be untrue. Even “humble” attitudes can be masks of pride. Humility is that freedom from our self which enables...

There’s no reason to not be humble, because as great as you may be, you can always be greater.

You’ve to close down your umbrella when you are under a canopy. Drop your pride; give praise to God!

Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun, and others have had like similes. I am more humble. I am a mere street...

If you can’t let go of the power you possess, if you can’t surrender it gracefully when it is time to do so, you will most likely abuse it.

The chief means of resisting manipulation is humility – knowing who we really are and facing it. You can only serve by love. You can only love by choice. True love cannot be the result...

False humility is a form of psychosis which was imprinted on most of us since birth. It is a mental illness because it locks us in a victim state of keeping our light turned down,...

A poor man is not disposed to quick and high resentment when he is among the rich: he is apt to yield to others, for he knows others are above him: he is not stiff...

Trails are used by God to teach you humility and dependence on His grace rather than your own strength.

So I was just thinking about how something happened today and it was quite insightful, humbling and puts things into perspective. If you look at anything, everything has it’s ‘story’ so to speak. For instance,...

There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.

True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.

A blush of breeze rose from the grass. Jacob felt as if an angel’s wing had beat against his cheek. He touched his cheek slowly. He felt embarrassed by the thought.”That I should think an...

Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.

A visitor asked Lincoln what good news he could take home from an audience with the august executive. The president spun a story about a machine that baffled a chess champion by beating him thrice....

It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.

It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.

We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has been based on the even flimsier assumption that we could know with any certainty...

Victory, is like a boxer that hangs his gloves, after the consecutive losses; sometimes walking away is what builds character, than the actual fight. As humble fruit on a tree that falls to the ground...

The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.

Our humility before God has no value, except that it prepares us to reveal the humility of Jesus to our fellow men.

A person’s words reflect the image of his character and the amount of truth and lies in it is always visible to the human heart than ordinary eyes.