Writers who think THEY are being criticized when only that writing is being criticized are beyond a teacher’s reach. Writing can only be learned when a writer coldly separates himself from what he has written...

Ego, being love’s kryptonite; two souls must be on the same page of humility.

I get it, you know. I’m operating on privilege too. It may be a number of notches down from yours but it’s every bit as unearned. I think the trick is to never forget it.

There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

So many people think that they are not gifted because they don’t have an obvious talent that people can recognize because it doesn’t fall under the creative arts category—writing, dancing, music, acting, art or singing....

The country inspector’s face had shown his intense amazement at the rapid and masterful progress of Holmes’ investigation. At first he had shown some disposition to assert his own position, but now he was overcome...

You are the first person who you should treat with humility. Respect yourself and let it overflow to others.

Humility is the only soil in which the graces root; the lack of humility is the sufficient explanation of every defect and failure. Humility is not so much a grace or virtue along with others;...

We all need to humble ourselves from time to time and expose ourselves to new perspectives and ideas, even those of the non-experts, or else our growth potential gets weighed down with the ignorance of...

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

I was wrong. Let’s make a change.

I read them (articles TR wrote on his honeymoon) all over to Edith and her corrections and help were most valuable to me.

I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.

Good…if you’ve done things you aren’t proud of. It means you have a conscience.

Many of us fight for and boast our freedom of what is ultimately the ability to prove ourselves to other people. It is unfortunate that only a few of us are so free in our...

Curious that a man as selfish as he should be offering himself to the service of dead dogs. There must be other, more productive ways of giving oneself to the world, or to an idea...

Your passion may determine what you can do, but your attitude redefines how far you can go while you do what you can. Your attitude leads you and you lead other people!

Deeply convinced of the reality of the divine will, he (Lincoln) had no patience at all with any who were perfectly sure they knew the details of the divine will.

I learned that it is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his pride and fancied innocence. I learned that he that will...

As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don’t think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye...

Being humble really doesn’t mean that you should turn yourself into a mat for others to step on.

Years later, after other experiences with dogs, I wondered if their species were shaped and charmed to serve as four-legged guides able to assist in leading humanity back to our first—and lost—home. By the example...

We need to approach the Bible each day with a spirit of deep humility, recognizing that our understanding of spiritual truth is at best incomplete and to some extent inaccurate … we should approach the...

Starting at the bottom is not about humiliation. It’s about humility—a realistic assessment of where you are in the learning curve.

Yet so often it seems that victory eludes us. It is when our self-confidence is finally destroyed and is replaced with dependence upon God that we have victory.

Oh Lord Most High, Creator of the Cosmos, Spinner of Galaxies, Soul of Electromagnetic Waves, Inhaler and Exhaler of Inconceivable Volumes of Vacuum, Spitter of Fire and Rock, Trifler with Millennia — what could we...

Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ and author of the Four Spiritual Laws chose three words for his tombstone: “slave for Jesus”.

I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.

College was to teach me that I was one of life’s journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.

Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility.

No amount of pics posted on your web, homepage, blog etc is going to change your devastated image but another humble restarts.

You know, I think it’s important to keep a balance in things. Yeah, balance, that’s the right word. Cause the guy who wants too much risks losing absolutely everything. Of course, the one who wants...

When you really have something to offer to the world, then you can become truly humble. A tree when it has no fruit to offer, remains erect. But when the tree is laden with fruit,...

In the ancient world, this was understood by the Christians, our only (if very imperfect) predecessors: Humility is a virtue, pride a vice; We comes from God, I from the Devil.

…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.

The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender’s inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the...

Wonderful music like this was the worst hurt there could be. The whole world was the symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen.

Never miss an opportunity to be truly and deeply humiliated! The shame will carve you down to an individual of exquisite layering, and in the process, etch within you the arcs of exceptional narrative.

There are three keys for your journey. Humility, wisdom, love. Don’t leave without them – they will enrich you all the way. And they will bless those around you.

The problem with thinking that you are the absolute best, is that it leaves no room for you to become any better and while you live life thinking that you’re the best, truth is a...

…goals not bathed in prayer or brought in humility before the Lord turn out to be downright useless. They don’t go anywhere. They don’t accomplish anything.

The three jewels of Tao: compassion, moderation, and humility. Balthasar said compassion leads to courage, moderation leads to generosity, and humility leads to leadership.

There won’t be any biographies of me, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken farm do not make for exciting copy.

Think outside the box? Indeed. But to add balance to that, one should not in the process forget what the inside of the box looks like as well. Those who are best at thinking outside...

It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored.

A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.

When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all.

The King of Glory does not reward His servants according to the dignity of their office, but according to the humility and love with which they have exercised it.

To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge, and act from the point of rest in ourselves. Then, how much disappears,...