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“Pride is a human nature and it's good for people to be proud of themselves, achievements, etc. but too much of anything is not healthy. Humble is pride exhibited through humility, so be humble and prideful about being humble.”

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“Fresh from the rarefied environments of Harvard, the author says he purposefully took journalism jobs in small southern towns so that he could learn the art of conversation with ordinary people. Is this gift for listening and for conversation, it seems, that allowed him to produce textured historical narratives of grand impact.”

Humility Listening Conversation Curiosity

Author:David Halberstam

“He (Lincoln) differed from fanatical moralists primarily in that he was always perplexed. No sooner did he believe he was doing God's will that he began to admit that God's purposes might be different from his own. In short, he never forgot the men's contrast between the absolute goodness of God and the faltering goodness of all who are in the finite predicament.”

Humility Worship Humorous Arrogance Sovereignty Of God Smugness

Book:Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

“Never look down on someone because God himself does not do so. No matter what defines the status, nationality or gender of a person, once God's spirit is in him/her, he or she becomes a complete creature with complete potentials!”

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Book:The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Humble is pride exhibited through humility.”

Humility Pride Humble

Author:Uzoma Nnadi

“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is true even of the pious brethren who carry the gospel to foreign parts.”

Humanity Power Humility Deceit Service Rulers Falsehood Gospel Elite False Prophets Proselytizing Anointed Messiahs

Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“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 where humanity is now: about to discover we're not as smart as we thought we were, will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we really are." [Facebook post, August 31, 2013]”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“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.”

Inspirational Quotes Humility Shame Narrative Layers Character Building Self Growth And Improvement

Book:Sinew of the Social Species

Source: Sinew of the Social Species

“And then I decided to be pro me. Be pro you to the end. No more cutting up myself and serving up myself like pieces of a pie for everyone's tasteless palates. And that doesn't mean you don't know how to say sorry; because being pro you means being pro growth and pro improvement. When I'm wrong, I know I'm wrong and I say that I'm wrong. And that's how I know I'm right!”

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Author:C. JoyBell C.

“There’s nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility”

Humility

Book:Meditations

Source: Meditations

“People often told him how humble he was, but they did not mean real humility, it was merely that he did not flaunt his membership in the wealthy club, did not exercise the rights it brought—to be rude, to be inconsiderate, to be greeted rather than to greet—and because so many others like him exercised those rights, his choices were interpreted as humility.”

Wealth Humility

Book:Americanah

Source: Americanah

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