“In humility, we find our true calling and our greatest honor.”
Source: Thirst No More: A One-Year Devotional Journey
“She remembered the first time she’d seen him at the Menagerie. He paid Tante Heleen for information—stock tips, political pillow talk, anything the Menagerie’s clients blabbed about when drunk or giddy on bliss. He never visited Heleen’s girls, though plenty would have been happy to take him up to their rooms. They claimed he gave them the shivers, that his hands were permanently stained with blood beneath those black gloves, but she’d recognized the eagerness in their voices and the way they tracked him with their eyes.
One night, as he’d passed her in the parlor, she’d done a foolish thing, a reckless thing. “I can help you,” she’d whispered. He’d glanced at her, then proceeded on his way as if she’d said nothing at all. The next morning, she’d been called to Tante Heleen’s parlor. She’d been sure another beating was coming or worse, but instead Kaz Brekker had been standing there, leaning on his crow-head cane, waiting to change her life.
“I can help you,” she said now.
“Help me with what?”
She couldn’t remember. There was something she was supposed to tell him. It didn’t matter anymore.
“Talk to me, Wraith.”
“You came back for me.”
“I protect my investments.”
Investments. “I’m glad I’m bleeding all over your shirt.”
“I’ll put it on your tab.”
Now she remembered. He owed her an apology. “Say you’re sorry.”
“For what?”
“Just say it.”
Source: Six of Crows
“Those who wish to stand tallest must kneel lowest.”
Source: Thirst No More: A One-Year Devotional Journey
“Thou shalt wear trousers, but they shall fall half down to teach humility over arrogance.”
“If the opposite of certainty is doubt, humility must lie somewhere between the two,”
Source: Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President
“If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear and fanaticism, your religion will always end up worshiping the status quo and protecting your present ego position and personal advantage as if it were God.”
Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
“He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.”
Source: The Old Man and the Sea
“There is power born of humility . . . Humility, in business and in life, is a powerful asset and does not denote lowliness, unimportance, or self-deprecation.”
Source: The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret
“It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it.”
Source: The Prince of Tides
“Pride and ego makes a mockery of an apology. Humility wins forgiveness without question...so break 'yo'self'!”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence