“After less than a week on campus I discovered I wan't that bright. All the students were bright; many of them extremely gifted and perceptive. Yale was a great leveler for me, because I now studied, worked, and lived with dozens of high-achieving students, and I didn't stand out among them.”
Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
“There is no unity without humility.”
“Do you know there is a limit of ignominy, beyond which man’s consciousness of shame cannot go, and after which begins satisfaction in shame? Well, of course humility is a great force in that sense, I admit that—though not in the sense in which religion accounts humility to be strength!”
Source: The Idiot
“The way people are forever rolling their eyes to heaven and saying, “Perhaps it’s all for the best,” when they are perfectly dead sure it’s not, makes me enraged. Humility or resignation or whatever you choose to call it, is simply impotent inertia.”
Source: Daddy-Long-Legs / Dear Enemy
“Again, the terror, the acknowledgment of wasted years and death. Valentin, responsive and confident, still nestled in his arms. His cheek touched the soft cheek and felt the brush of the delicate eyelashes. With inner desperation he pressed the child close - as though an emotion as protean as his love could dominate the pulse of time.”
Source: The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
“Either let the LORD decide how you should live or you decide how you should live. The humble and penitent sinner will choose the former, while the proud rebellious sinner will choose the latter and in both instances, the good point is that the LORD will honor your choice!”
“Modesty isn’t about whether something is seen, but rather whether something is flaunted.”
Source: Ageless Wisdom: A Treasury of Quotes to Motivate & Inspire
“Men are beastly and natural, and when touched by God, the One who is supernatural, they become as 'mythical creatures' - only more true and just, and therefore all the meeker.”
“Amid the holy and celestial, humility's what's 'cool' under pressure. Humility stops being humble when it realizes itself humble, and cool stops being cool when others realize it trying to be cool.”
“Religious thinking induces excessive humility, which is pride in disguise.”
Source: Kingdom Fundamentals: What the Kingdom of God Means and What it Means for You | A Thorough and Biblical Exposition of the Kingdom of Heaven as Preached by Jesus