"Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone's garden."
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"One of the great things about being willing to try new things and make mistakes is that making mistakes keeps you humble. People who are humble learn more than people who are arrogant."
"One who is wise and disciplined, always kind and intelligent, humble and free from pride. One like this will be praised."
"Accept your own divinity. Everything is a manifestation of God. When you know that, the power that is LIFE is inside you, you accept your own divinity, and yet you are humble, because you see that see the same divinity in everyone else."
"Life change for us every single week so.. It's good but I know this aint the peak though."
"If I'm in ya starting five you will never need a sub and I'm never looking down, so I always know what's up."
"This supposed to be yall year? We aint get the memo."
"It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer."
"As natural and easy as it has been to be proud, it must become natural for us to be humble."
"Politics and morality are inseparable. And as morality's foundation is religion, religion and politics are necessarily related. We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect, and our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive."
"At some thoughts one stands perplexed, especially at the sight of men's sin, and wonders whether one should use force or humble love. Always decide to use humble love. If you resolve on that once for all, you may subdue the whole world."
"I'm in the mood to get faded, so please bring your finest."
"Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes."
"One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth."
"The wind cannot overturn a mountain. Temptation cannot touch the man Who is awake, strong and humble, Who masters hiself and minds the law."
"Water is patient; it can stagnate and let itself be coated with scum if need be. It is as gentle as the morning's dew. It is non-confrontational, even respectful, in circumventing the rocks in a stream. It makes room for everything that enters its pools. It accommodates by assuming the shape of any vessel it is poured into. And it is humble, seeking always the lowest level. Yet along with - or rather because of these adaptive, yielding properties, it is ultimately irresistible; it carves canyons out of stone."
"I've been down this road before and yeah I skidded but forget it"
"Wars are generally fought for material things; they're not fought over ideals. After we get into them, we are told we are fighting for ideals. We are fighting for oil and tin and rubber and markets, and as long as we insist on a standard of life that is so high above all the rest of the world, we're going to have to pay for our standard of living with a lot of blood. I think we ought to re-examine the fact that Jesus was a pauper, and we should be committing ourselves to a very humble, simple way of life."
"We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility."
"We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble."