Humility Quotes

Alas! it is but little we have done for our Master's glory. Our winter has lasted all too long. We are as cold as ice when we should feel a summer's glow and bloom with sacred flowers.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Lincoln bought a German language newspaper.

~ Harold Holzer

Looking to advance in journalism, one future editor displayed skilled as varied as economic analysis and humorous commentary.

~ Harold Holzer

Stephen Douglas's oratory was designed for the galleries, Lincoln's for his peers

~ Harold Holzer

Life produces a different taste each time you take it.

~ Frank Herbert

He learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.

~ Frank Herbert

The entire path of the Vitraag Lords (the enlightened one) is one of humility (vinaya). The practice of humility (vinaya dharma) begins from Hindustan (India). There are endless practices of humility, starting from putting two hands together (in the gesture of Namaste) to prostrating. And ultimately when one attains absolute humility (param vinaya), he attains moksha (ultimate liberation).

~ Dada Bhagwan

What is absolute humility (param vinaya)? It is on the one who has not disrespected anyone in the slightest! Absolute humility lies where there is no dispute, no difference of opinion or any law. Law is bondage.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Our superintendence in instruction and discipline is the office of the Word, from whom we learn frugality and humility, and all that pertains to love of truth, love of humanity, and love of excellence. And so, in a word, being assimilated to God by participation in moral excellence, we must not retrograde into carelessness and sloth. But labor, and faint not.

~ Clement Of Alexandria

It would be very difficult to draw a line between holy wonder and real worship; for when the soul is overwhelmed with the majesty of God's glory, though it may not express itself in song, or even utter its voice with bowed head in humble prayer, yet it silently adores.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The pretence leads up to the real thing. When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is put on a friendly manner and behave as if you were a nicer person than you actually are. And in a few minutes, as we have all noticed, you will be really feeling friendlier than you were. Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.

~ C.s. Lewis

CARDINAL WOLSEYSo farewell to the little good you bear me.Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness!This is the state of man: to-day he puts forthThe tender leaves of hopes; to-morrow blossoms,And bears his blushing honours thick upon him;The third day comes a frost, a killing frost,And, when he thinks, good easy man, full surelyHis greatness is a-ripening, nips his root,And then he falls, as I do. I have ventured,Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,This many summers in a sea of glory,But far beyond my depth: my high-blown prideAt length broke under me and now has left me,Weary and old with service, to the mercyOf a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye:I feel my heart new open'd. O, how wretchedIs that poor man that hangs on princes' favours!There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to,That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,More pangs and fears than wars or women have:And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,Never to hope again

~ William Shakespeare

You never can tell about these mild-mannered boys.

~ James Carl Nelson

Nothing will be attained from actions of hundreds of thousands of lives. Moksha (liberation) is attained through ‘absolute humility’ (param vinaya). The ‘gates of understanding’ are opened with ‘absolute humility’. ‘Absolute humility’ arises only when the ego is dissolved.

~ Dada Bhagwan

We need more worship wars, not fewer. What if the war looked like this in your congregation--the young singles petitioning the church to play more of the old classics for the sake of the elderly people, and the elderly people calling on the leadership to contemporize for the sake of the young new believers? This would signal a counting of others more important than ourselves (Phil 2:3), which comes from the spirit of the humiliated, exalted King, Christ (Phil 2:5-11).

~ Russell D. Moore

Economics has accurately been called the science of the single instance.

~ George F. Will

I'm more human now. It's the God in people that connects them to me.– Ali

~ Davis Miller

Thus in order to be a radical one must be open to the possibility that one's own core assumptions are misconceived.

~ Christopher Hitchens

A good therapy helps you develop a sense of irony about your life so that when you start to repeat old and unhelpful patterns, something within you says, There you go again; let's call this to a halt. You can do something different. Often the first step toward doing something different is developing the capacity to not act, to stay still and reflect.

~ Sherry Turkle

If you're having a conversation with someone in speech, and it's not being tape-recorded, you can change your opinion, but on the Internet, it's not like that. On the Internet it's almost as if everything you say were being tape-recorded. You can't say, I changed my mind.

~ Sherry Turkle

There's something satisfying to proclaiming humility while knowing just how important you truly are.

~ Michael R. Fletcher

We have to love technology enough to describe it accurately. And we have to love ourselves enough to confront technology's true effect on us.

~ Sherry Turkle

Are you dedicated to your patient or your ego?

~ M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team

Effective love is rarely efficient.

~ Kevin Deyoung

He found his voice in the silences, where he could sing as loud and as long as he wanted with no one to complain of it.

~ Geraldine Brooks

We see a first generation going through adolescence knowing their every misstep, all the awkward gestures of their youth, are being frozen in a computer's memory.

~ Sherry Turkle

Underestimation has its uses.

~ Sherry Turkle

The author says resilience is the ability to move rob a preferred state to an expanded list of alternatives.

~ Andrew Zolli

Regular, modest failures are actually essential to many forms of resilience.

~ Andrew Zolli

Resilient systems fail gracefully. A perfect system is often most fragile.

~ Andrew Zolli

Apart from childhood and crisis, prayers have a way of being abstracted from the homely and distinctive details that are part and parcel of our ordinary and daily life.

~ Eugene H. Peterson

He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson.

~ E.m. Forster

David would wear no purple cloth, no symbols of his kingship, when he went to greet the ark. In its presence, we were all of us servants.

~ Geraldine Brooks

The truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind. Emily Dickinson

~ Eugene H. Peterson

There are so many ways to think about almost everything. And none of them is nearly as round as reality.

~ Davis Miller

It is a sign of intellectual maturity to always crawl to conclusions.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Awful momentum makes carrying through easier than calling off folly.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Weakness is not the problem, but my delusion of my strengths is.

~ Paul David Tripp

He was vain and tended to surround himself with intellectual and moral pygmies.

~ Stephen L. Carter

Something greater than me was happening. And yet, it was happening to me.

~ Dick Van Dyke