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“A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics.”

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“Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him.”

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Author:Ron Fournier

“What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself.”

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Author:Trevor Nunn

“I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don't inflict harm where it's not necessary.”

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Author:Michael J. Fox

“My family believe you should never be flashy about anything. Maybe that handicapped me a little bit, that extreme humility.”

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Author:Kelly Reilly

“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.”

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Author:Michael J. Fox

“I am humility, nothing more and nothing less. I am one blade of grass in a sea of grass. I am one wave in an endless ocean of waves. I am one glowing star in a galaxy of stars.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“A great deal of humility is necessary in the process of self-discovery. Humility is the ability to accept what and who you are at this moment.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.”

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Author:Johann Lamont

“Real meditation engenders humility and purity, always. Yet I don't really think it demands any kind of lifestyle.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Kundalini is generated through cultivating humility, purity, through meditation, selfless giving, and by studying with an advanced teacher on a personal level.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.”

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Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.”

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Author:Vance Havner

“Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.”

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Book:All the Days

Source: All the Days

“For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.”

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Book:Salomé: In Every Inch in Every Mile

Source: Salomé: In Every Inch in Every Mile

“Dispassion and humility lead to spiritual knowledge. Without them no one will see the Lord.”

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Author:Maximus the Confessor

“The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord-it feels great-but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop.”

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Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.”

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Book:The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Penn Reading Project Edition

Source: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Penn Reading Project Edition

“I'm grateful for my brokenness. I'm grateful for my humility.”

Humility Grateful Brokenness

Author:James McGreevey

“Do not let me hear Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly, Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession, Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God. The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.”

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Author:T. S. Eliot

“How many young people among you are like this? You know how to give and yet you have ever learned how to receive. You still lack one thing. Become a beggar. This is what you still lack. Learn how to beg. This isn’t easy to understand. To learn how to beg. To learn how to receive with humility.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“If your life is in disarray and you feel uncomfortable and unworthy to pray because you are not clean, don't worry. He already knows about all of that. He is waiting for you to kneel in humility and take the first few steps. Pray for strength. Pray for others to be led to support you and guide you and lift you. Pray that the love of the Savior will pour into your heart. Pray that the miracle of the Atonement will bring forgiveness because you are willing to change. I know that those prayers will be answered, for God loves you. His Son gave his life for you. I know they will help you.”

“Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyone's parent, humility without love results in the need to be everyone's child, and love with humility results in the desire to be a friend.”

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Book:Healology

Source: Healology

“Discard the protective rags of that vice which you called a virtue: humility. Learn to value yourself, which means: to FIGHT for your happiness, and when you learn that pride is the sum of all virtues, you will learn to live like a man.”

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Author:John Galt

“Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are.”

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Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Prayer and humility, along with a hatred for sin, produces a ‘mind to work.’ ‘So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work’ (Nehemiah 4:6). True revivals of holiness always produce workers. Books and seminars and lectures don’t—but revival does!”

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Author:David Wilkerson

“Writing is a job, a craft, and you learn it by trying to write every day and by facing the page with humility and gall. And you have to love to read books, all kinds of books, good books. You are not looking for anything in particular; you are just letting stuff seep in.”

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Author:Stephen Dobyns

“Only those who feel little in the eyes of God, can hope to be mighty in the eyes of men.”

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Author:Ernst Moritz Arndt

“I have a healthy amount of humility.”

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Author:Seth Gordon

“Modest humility is beauty's crown.”

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Author:Friedrich Schiller

“Humility mainly becometh the converse of man with his Maker.”

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Book:Proverbial Philosophy: (the First and Second Series)

Source: Proverbial Philosophy: (the First and Second Series)

“It's feeling the sense of responsibility, the sense of ownership, to step in, to try to solve any problem - and the humility to step back and embrace the better ideas of others. Your end goal, is what can we do together to problem-solve. I've contributed my piece, and then I step back.”

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Author:Laszlo Bock

“A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle.”

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Author:James Keller

“Genius is by definition a style of consciousness characterized by the ability to access high energy attractor patterns. It is not a personality characteristic. It is not something that a person has, nor even something that someone is. Those in whom we recognize genius commonly disclaim it. A universal characteristic of genius is humility. The genius has always attributed his insights to some higher influence.”

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Author:David R. Hawkins

“The Lord chose the apostles, that they should be with Him, and that he might send them forth to preach, and to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils.”

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Author:Theophan the Recluse

“Every Christian is chosen-chosen for similar deeds, namely: to be with the Lord, through unceasing remembrance of Him and awareness of His omnipresence, through the preaching and fulfillment of His commandments, and through a readiness to confess one's faith in Him. In those circles where such a confession is made, it is a loud sermon for all to hear.”

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Author:Theophan the Recluse

“Every Christian has the power to heal infirmities-not of others, but his own, and not of the body, but of the soul-that is, sins and sinful habits-and to cast out devils, rejecting evil thoughts sown by them, and extinguishing the excitement of passions enflamed by them.”

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Author:Theophan the Recluse

“Do this and you will be an apostle, a fulfiller of what the Lord chose you for, an accomplisher of your calling as messenger. When at first you succeed in all this, then perhaps the Lord will appoint you as a special ambassador-to save others after you have saved yourself; and to help those who are tempted, after you yourself pass through all temptations, and through all experiences in good and evil.”

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Author:Theophan the Recluse

“But your job is to work upon yourself: for this you are chosen; the rest is in the hands of God. He who humbles himself shall be exalted.”

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Author:Theophan the Recluse

“In the mercy of God, the little thing done with humility will enable us to be found in the same place as the saints who have labored much and been true servants of God.”

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Book:Discourses and Sayings

Source: Discourses and Sayings

“Being chosen doesn't come out of a state of fullness, it comes out of a state of emptiness.”

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Book:Transformation of the God-image: An Elucidation of Jung's Answer to Job

Source: Transformation of the God-image: An Elucidation of Jung's Answer to Job

“History is an orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured.”

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Author:Kedar Joshi

“This Sacrament really contains You, O my God, You whom the Angels adore, in whose presence the Spirits and mighty Powers tremble. Oh! if we could only see You clearly as they do, with what reverence would we approach this Sacrament, with what humility would we receive You.”

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Author:Angela of Foligno

“Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.”

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Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it's worship. Such form is its real form.”

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Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“If we learn not humility, we learn nothing.”

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Author:John Dewey

“Humility is the only virtue that no devil can imitate. If pride made demons out of angels, there is no doubt that humility could make angels out of demons.”

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Author:John Climacus

“It is not the self -critical who reveals his humility ( for does not everyone have some how to put up with himself? ). Rather, it is the man who continues to love the person who has criticized him.”

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Author:John Climacus

“A KEY TO BEGIN FORGIVING: Become soft and tender with the person. The first step is to become soft in your mind and spirit. Lower your voice and relax your facial expressions. This reflects honor and humility; and as Proverbs 15:1 suggests, "A gentle answer turns away anger."”

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Author:Gary Smalley

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