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,...

I went to Guatemala to help build a school but left wondering what “help” would really look like… I hadn’t prepared myself for how humbled I’d feel, or how hard it would be to find...

By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You shewed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

There is no inconsistency when God raises up those who have fallen prostrate.

Everybody I talk to, the thing they say that impresses them most about Cadillac is his humility. All I ever hear is how he’s never gotten caught up in the notoriety and the status that...

Speech one may regret,Silence no sorrow begets,Humility be born before honour,Soft answer turns wrath’s corner

The ego wants to rule, but the heart will quietly prevail.” -Jennifer Ritchie Payette, co-author, “Modular Career Design

He wrote as a young man that God’s noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind.

‘I’m sorry’ won’t fix what’s been broken. It can’t reverse time or undo the damage or change anything that happened. But a sincere, humble apology can serve to soften the sting and sometimes do a...

The least known among the virtues and also the most misunderstood is the virtue of humility. Yet, it is the very groundwork of Christianity. Humility is a grace of the soul that cannot be expressed...

Those that would attain wisdom, prefer the empty stadium.Those who wish to appear wise,prefer it full.

Confession is a difficult discipline for us, because we all too often view the believing community as a fellowship of saints before we see it as a fellowship of sinners. We feel that everyone else...

Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.

Who knows himself a braggart, let him fear this, for it will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass.

It is not for you to say – you Englishmen, who have conquered your freedom so long ago, that you have conveniently forgotten what blood you shed, and what extremities you proceeded to in the...

My greatest concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are concerned with your failure.

His whole effort, therefore, will be to get the man’s mind off the subject of his own value altogether. He would rather the man thought himself a great architect or a great poet and then...

Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.

If a person’s life objective has been endorsed by his inner call, then he is bound to repeatedly fail and fall for he is scaling up the wall which is very tall and that’s not...

With so much effort being poured into church growth, so much press being given to the benefits of faith, and so much flexing of religious muscle in the public square, the poor in spirit have...

Be careful not to mistake insecurity and inadequacy for humility! Humility has nothing to do with the insecure and inadequate! Just like arrogance has nothing to do with greatness!

For my own part, my constant prayer is that I may know the worst of my case, whatever the knowledge may cost me. I know that an accurate estimate of my own heart can never...

Those who wish to stand tallest must kneel lowest.

All of yesterday’s ballers are today’s road sweepers.

Frasier (Responding to the suggestion that he undertake the difficult work of closure in a relationship): “What you just said about my success made a lot of sense. I tuned you out after that.

Hypocrisy versus authenticity among men is not always so black and white, and as is righteousness, humility is often self-proclaimed. The Church is most definitely supposed to be a hospital for the spiritually, emotionally, mentally,...

Never wear pride as the jersey of your dreams. You will miss the goal and lose your dreams if you put on pride!

Modesty is a noble expression of honesty

The Patriots had picked Brady in the sixth round, and he soon turned out to be one of the two or three best quarterbacks in the League, and absolutely perfect for the Belichick system and...

When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.

But the truth is that there is no more conscious inconsistency between the humility of a Christian and the rapacity of a Christian than there is between the humility of a lover and the rapacity...

Sometimes a woman has experienced too much life to have any blush left in her cheeks, but the man who puts it there is someone not easily forgotten.