“Though this must seem a paradox," said Alcuin, "by Christ Himself you shall be strengthened in humility. Submit your will to His and your reward shall be great.”
Source: Son of Charlemagne
“If you want to attain great honor, be a person of small talk.”
“It requires an incredible amount of humility to be willing to be wrong nearly all the time. But we have to be willing to be wrong, and proven wrong, in order to increase knowledge overall.”
Source: When Women Were Dragons
“Confession, when given in a state of repentance (being genuinely sorry), is not for the weakhearted. Neither is it weak in what it was designed to do. It requires a personal resolve and humility to voice out loud what you did or didn’t do so that you can become right with God, the offended party, and yourself.”
Source: Unstoppable Grace: A Memoir
“Humility is a lesson best learned willingly. Because if you don't, time will eventually teach it to you in a cruel fashion”
Source: Inspirational Sayings: Get Super Motivated and Achieve Amazing Success through Inspirational Sayings!
“[Y]ou shouldn't cut your old friends now that you have risen in the world. That's what we call snobbery.”
Source: Pygmalion
“i have no alms for God - He gives alms
to me - a pauper looking to her Master's
hand - i am well aware of charity”
Source: Sheer Bandages: A Fragile Offering: A person should not bury a talent-no matter how small.
“No individual death among human beings is important. Someone who dies leaves his work behind and that does not entirely die. It never entirely dies as long as humanity exists.”
Source: Robots and Empire
“me dulcis saturet quies;
obscuro positus loco
leni perfruar otio,
nullis nota Quiritibus
aetas per tacitum fluat.
sic cum transierint mei
nullo cum strepitu dies.
plebeius moriar senex.
illi mors gravis incubat
qui, notus nimis omnibus,
ignotus moritur sibi.”
Source: Thyestes
“Wisdom keeps intelligence humble.”