H Quotes
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“Humility is a Divine property and the perfection of the Christian life. It is attained through obedience. He who is not obedient cannot gain humility. There are very few in the world today who have obedience. Our humility is in proportion to our obedience.”
Source: Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
“Humility is a do thing, not a feel thing. Humility is an action, not a style.”
“Humility is a doorway. The quickest way to promotion in God’s kingdom is to truly disconnect from the fleshly desire to promote yourself. Striving and pride will literally thwart you. However, when we humble ourselves, it allows God to trust us. We have to trust Him, too, because His timing is better than ours, and He knows better than we do when is the proper time and place to use our skills and abilities to His glory.”
Source: Desert Trained Warriors: God's Hidden Leaders Emerging from the Wilderness in the Power of the Holy Spirit
“Humility is a fantastic trait and is one of the most important things we can have”
“Humility is a fertile soil where spirituality grows and produces the fruit of inspiration to know what to do. It gives access to divine power to accomplish what must be done. An individual motivated by a desire for praise or recognition will not qualify to be taught by the Spirit. An individual who is arrogant or who lets his or her emotions influence decisions will not be powerfully led by the Spirit.”
“Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone's garden.”
“Humility is a good trait of great leaders, because a great leader never forgets that he is in that position because of the followers.”
Source: The Effective Leadership Prototype for a Modern Day Leader
“Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction
“Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.”
“Humility is a humble service.”
“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!
“Humility is a most excellent barometer," he said, "and ought to be looked for in all those we are made to look up to.”
Source: The Golden Tresses of the Dead
“Humility is a natural symptom of those who love God.”
“Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.”
Source: The Christian in Complete Armour: Or, A Treatise on the Saints' War with the Devil ...
“Humility is a passive acceptance of the process of life; love is an active participation in that process.”
Source: Cry of the Eagle: The Toltec Teachings Volume 2
“Humility is a peace that accepts one's strengths and limitations.”
Source: Strive: Life is Short, Pursue What Matters
“Humility is a priceless virtue; however, it takes a lot of self-emptying to cultivate it.”
“Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness and hypocrisy.”
“Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy.”
Source: Aspects Of the Novel
“Humility is a rare yet valued accessory that looks good on everyone.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Humility is a reflection of vulnerability; it is the self giving itself permission to say, “I don't know everything.”
Source: Grace Under Pressure: Leading Through Change and Crisis
“Humility is a restrained expression of your finest qualities.”
Source: Life is not Complicated, You Are
“Humility is a safeguard against humiliation.”
“Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction.”
Source: Quaint Sermons of Samuel Rutherford: Hitherto Unpublished
“Humility is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.”
“Humility is a teacher of itself. It is learnt by means of its practise.”
Source: Wisdom of the Idiots
“Humility is a very important trait in a critic.”
“Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.”
“Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet every body is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity.”
“Humility is a virtue of the heavenly, not arrogance. Are we the most superior beast on earth? No, not in strength and not in intelligence. It is very arrogant to assume that we are the most intelligent species when we keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again. Both rats and monkeys have been shown to learn from error, yet we have not. More people have died in the name of religion than any other cause on earth. Is massacring God’s creations really serving God – or the devil? And what father would want to see his children constantly divided and fighting? What God would allow a single human life to be sacrificed for monetary gain? Again, the Creator or the devil?”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Humility is a virtue that one can find, in which God in heaven rejoices ,and in His love he enfolds you, close to his heart He does bind.”
“Humility is a virtue when you have no other.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.”
Source: The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm
“Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis.”
Source: Thoughts In Solitude
“Humility is a virtue; timidity is an illness.”
“Humility is a way of approaching ourselves, other people, and the world around us with a sense of enoughness—an unconditional worth and value—that opens us to the world as it is.”
Source: Humble: Free Yourself from the Traps of a Narcissistic World
“Humility is acknowledging that without God you wouldn’t have come thus far.”
“Humility is all about being truthful and honest.”
“Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open.”
“Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them.”
“Humility is always one play away.”
“Humility is always proof of intelligence”
“Humility is an attribute of godliness possessed by true Saints. It is easy to understand why a proud man fails. He is content to rely upon himself only. This is evident in those who seek social position or who push others aside to gain position in fields of business, government, education, sports, or other endeavors. Our genuine concern should be for the success of others. The proud man shuts himself off from God, and when he does he no longer lives in the light.”
Source: That We Might Have Joy
“Humility is an elusive virtue. The more we pursue it - and the more we seem to acquire it - the more we take pride in our accomplishment, and we find ourselves back at square one.”
“Humility is an essential quality in writers who want to write well.”
Source: Marlin, Darlin': Garnet Sullivan Live from Florida
“Humility is an interesting virtue because if you don't have It, sooner or later it's given to you.”
Source: Unstoppable: The Incredible Power of Faith in Action
“Humility is an ornament which attracts Krishna's heart. Beginning of all knowledge comes from humility.”
“Humility is as good for the soul as it is for the memory”
Source: Thirteenth Child
“Humility is attentive patience.”
Source: First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge
“Humility is authenticity. It comes from the Latin word humus, meaning "earth." As the church has taught, we're made of dust, and unto dust we shall return.”