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We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. – Rabindranath Tagore	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich. – Saadi	added by anonymous 10 years ago
There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers. – Edith Hamilton	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasions to change. – Frank Lloyd Wright	added by anonymous 10 years ago
“As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.” – Nelson Mandela	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Humility and full consciousness are inseparable. – Bryant McGill	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility. – Dejan Stojanovic	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet everybody is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity. – John Selden	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Obstinate silence implies either a mean opinion of ourselves, or a contempt for our company; and it is the more provoking, as others do not know to which of these causes to attribute it?whether humility or pride. – Hazlitt	added by anonymous 12 years ago
I never yet found pride in a noble nature nor humility in an unworthy mind. – Feltham	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Faith is the manifestation of courage, confidence, kindness, compassion, foregiveness and humility combined. – Mike Pickett	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Personally I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world [chess] championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility. – Richard Dawkings:, "The Selfish Gene"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are. – Laurence Peter	added by anonymous 13 years ago
205. A greedy man will always find himself in the shackles of humility. – Imam Ali, Peak of Eloquence (Nahjul Balagha)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride. – Ernest Hemingway, "The Old Man and the Sea"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The road to success leads through the valley of humility, and the path is up the ladder of patience and across the wide barren plains of perseverance. As yet, no short cut has ever been discovered. – Joseph J. Lamb	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail. – Francis Quarles	added by anonymous 13 years ago
By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions? – Jackie Mason	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self it is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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. – Dwight D Eisenhower	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility. – Charles Caleb Colton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. – Jean Baptiste Lacordaire	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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