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"These are the four abuses: desire to succeed in order to make oneself famous; taking credit for the labors of others; refusal to correct one's errors despite advice; refusal to change one's ideas despite warnings."
"I think I'd like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom not separated from it."
"Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory."
"What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God."
"We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully."
"There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. […] There is no fault which makes a man more unpopular, and no fault which we are more unconscious of in ourselves.[…]The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility."
"Cultivate a sympathetic heart, humility in dealings, and selflessness in action. If these are practiced with earnestness and sincerity, then you will win the race of life."
"Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons."
"Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men."
"Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation."
"Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being little. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. Modest humility is beauty's crown."
"Krishna is present fully in His holy name and this is realized by the humility and sincerity in our chanting."
"When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four."
"No light is brighter than wisdom. Wisdom is the light in the world."
"Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity."
"you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead."
"Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious."
"In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable."
"The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species."
"Doesn’t it honor Him more when His children no longer see themselves only as sinners saved by grace, but now as heirs of God? Isn’t it a greater form of humility to believe Him when He says we are precious in His sight when we don’t feel very precious?"
