H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Humility means one does not impose his conceptions upon others and he is fully dependent on the mercy of the Lord.”
“Humility means realizing that it's fun to give everything away, particularly the things that you are most attached to.”
“Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.”
Source: Bhagavad-Gita as it is: Abridged edition with translations and elaborate purports
“Humility means that you have the courage to accept that you are eternity itself.”
“Humility means you're willing to give someone a bigger slice of the pie.”
“Humility moves more mountains than arrogance.”
“Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.”
“Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.”
Source: Interior Castle
“Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.”
“Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.”
Source: The papers: The chief of staff
“Humility neither falls far, nor heavily.”
“Humility of prayer is to ppurify the heart.”
“Humility of prayer is to purify the heart.”
“Humility of the soul; divine.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Humility opens the door of opportunity.”
“Humility opens the door to grace very well.”
Source: All the Way to the River
“Humility Preceeds Glory”
“Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.”
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“Humility puts others first because "first" takes on new meaning through the practice of humility.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Humility raises us not by human arrogance but by divine grace.”
Source: City of God
“Humility, rather than involving the presence of certain thoughts or behaviors, might better be construed as the absence of narcissism, self-enhancement, or defensiveness.”
Source: Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification
“Humility recognizes that no one can change someone else, but with faith, effort, and the help of God, we can undergo our own mighty change of heart.”
“Humility reminds you that in order to receive value, you must create value in equal measure.”
“Humility responds to God's will-to the fear of His judgments and to the needs of those around us. To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts. Someone has said, "Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man."”
Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“Humility saves man: pride makes him lose his way.”
“Humility sets us free to do what is really good, by showing us our illusions and withdrawing our will from what was only an apparent good.”
Source: Thoughts In Solitude
“Humility shall be worn on the feet of the egotistical.”
“Humility simply means that you do a great job at everything and it isn't really a big deal.”
“Humility so rare but beautiful”
“Humility takes a supply of supernatural strength that comes only to those strong enough to admit weakness”
Source: Breaking Free: Discover the Victory of Total Surrender
“Humility—the first gift—can help us surrender to an event outside our control, one we couldn’t prevent and was not our fault”
Source: The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes
“Humility: The most quietly profound professor in the university of Christian living.”
Source: A Cup of Hope for the Day
“Humility, the state of being humble, is often misunderstood; it is not a state of weakness, but of strength. It does not mean inferiority, resignation or submission; these imply that we are still resisting our need for help. When we are humble, we are totally willing to accept God's help, knowing that without it we cannot progress further. In humility we possess self-esteem, accept ourselves as we are, assets and defects alike, and extend the same acceptance to others. We are learning to recognize humility in others; we are attracted to them and we learn from them.”
Source: Paths to Recovery: Al-Anon's Steps, Traditions and Concepts
“Humility [vinaya] means special conduct [vishesh naya]. All the worldly conduct are for worldly life and special conduct [vishesh naya] is what takes one to moksha. Humility is the only thing that can take one to moksha.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“Humility was a cult in my family. I only got it out of my father by accident when he was very old that he had won an Olympic gold medal.”
“Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That's not to say humble people don't exist there, but ambition seems really important.”
“Humility was an offensive characteristic for a God, in the eyes of early non-Christians. How could Christians worship a God who deliberately chose to share in human birth with all its mess and vulnerability and limitation, as well as a shameful death? How can we now worship a God to whom all the unimportant little details of our lives actually matter? How can we respect a God who takes us more seriously than we take ourselves, and yet is not impressed with all our accomplishments? Who loves us equally well, whetherwe succeed or fail? How could it really be that God simply disregards not only our education, our tastes, our industry, our niceness, our worthiness in order to love us? God's greatness we can begin to approach. The sheer humility of God's love is incomprehensible.”
Source: To Love as God Loves: Conversations with the Early Church
“Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was definitely not encouraged, and pleasure or pride would be punishable by death.”
“Humility was largely meant as a restraint upon the arrogance and infinity of the appetite of man. He was always outstripping his mercies with his own newly invented needs. His very power of enjoyment destroyed half his joys. By asking for pleasure, he lost the chief pleasure; for the chief pleasure is surprise. Hence it became evident that if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small. Even the haughty visions, the tall cities, and the toppling pinnacles are the creations of humility. Giants that tread down forests like grass are the creations of humility. Towers that vanish upwards above the loneliest star are the creations of humility. For towers are not tall unless we look up at them; and giants are not giants unless they are larger than we. All this gigantesque imagination, which is, perhaps, the mightiest of the pleasures of man, is at bottom entirely humble. It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything-- even pride.”
“Humility will allow you to master what you need to learn, and to be fully present when the moment comes to use what you have mastered.”
Source: A Subtle Agency
“Humility will redefine your sense of dignity.”
“Humility with energy is often mistaken for pride.”
“Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven - of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best.”
“Humility, after the first shock, is cheerful virtue.”
“Humility, as we all know, is one of those virtues that is never gained by seeking it. The more we pursue it the more distant it becomes. To think we have it is sure evidence that we don't.”
Source: Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline
“Humility, however deep it be, neither disquiets nor troubles nor disturbs the soul; it is accompanied by peace, joy and tranquillity.”
Source: The Way of Perfection
“Humility, humility, humility, and humility.”
Source: Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion
“Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.”
“Humility, if it comes at all, almost always comes too late.”
“Humility, in its turn, can be achieved only through faith, fear of God, gentleness and the shedding of all possessions.”