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Those who achieve the extraordinary are usually the most ordinary because they have nothing to prove to anybody. Be Humble.

Those that are too refined to be simple need to be refined again.

Those that would attain wisdom, prefer the empty stadium. Those who wish to appear wise, prefer it full.

Those who consider themselves good teachers probably aren't.

Those who wish to stand tallest must kneel lowest.

though excessive pride may seek for freedom, it may only see freedom in chains

Though sometimes you must have an unstoppable courage, it must be with a well defined humility for purposeful living! Humility is not just good for our lives; it also greatly saves our lives, integrity and true purpose! Don’t just think you are on top of the world just because you stand on the tallest building. When the building collapses, you may be far worse than they that walk besides the building who can run away upon seeing it collapsing!

Though I am a lot of things, most importantly I am human.

Three great actions: To do what is right, To love mercy, and To walk humbly with Yahweh.

Thou shalt wear trousers, but they shall fall half down to teach humility over arrogance.

Through life, I want to walk gently. I want to treat all of life – the earth and its people – with reverence. I want to remove my shoes in the presence of holy ground. As much as possible, I want to walk in peace. I want to walk lightly, even joyfully, through whatever days I am given. I want to laugh easily. I want to step carefully in and out of people's lives and relationships. I don't want to tread any heavier than necessary. And throughout life, I think I would like to walk with more humility and less anger, more love and less fear. I want to walk confidently, but without arrogance. I want to walk in deep appreciation. I want to be genuinely thankful for life's extravagant, yet simple, gifts – a star-splattered night sky or a hot drink on an ice-cold day. If life is a journey, then how I make that journey is important. How I walk through life.

Thus in order to be a "radical" one must be open to the possibility that one's own core assumptions are misconceived.

Tim Tebow's Dad turned a screw-up into a testimony when a fire to burn weeds in a field got out of control. With his family still smelling like smoke from containing the fire, he conducted a lesson from verses where James compares danger of speech to an out-of-control spark.

To admit your ignorance is freeing. To say, "I don't know" is to free yourself from having to come up with a bullshit answer.

To appreciate beauty is to experience humility—to recognize that something larger and more powerful than oneself is at work in the environment. And humility, it turns out, is key to recognizing that in order to survive, you must adapt yourself to the environment, that it won't adapt to your needs.

To be humble is to be teachable. Meek, not weak. The most humble people are the most aggressive leaders. Aggressive because to be truly taught, is to sincerely do. To lead. To start. To achieve. Willingly and urgently doing the work to make change.

To be humble is to be so sure of one's self and one's mission that one can forego calling excessive attention to one's self and status. And, even more pointedly, to be humble is to revel in the accomplishments or potentials of others -- especially those with whom one identifies and to whom one is linked organically.

To be poor in spirit is an attitude of humility that is willing to turn from personal pursuits to seek God’s righteousness

Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fixed tension between veering and longing, and spins helpless, exalted, in and out of that fleet blazing touch. Last night Orion vaulted and spread all over the sky, pagan and lunatic, his shoulder and knee on fire, his sword three suns at the ready-for what? I won’t see this year again, not again so innocent; and longing wrapped round my throat like a scarf. “For the Heavenly Father desires that we should see,” says Ruysbroeck, “and that is why He is ever saying to our inmost spirit one deep unfathomable word and nothing else.” But what is the word? Is this mystery or coyness? A cast-iron bell hung from the arch of my rib cage; when I stirred, it rang, or it tolled, a long syllable pulsing ripples up my lungs and down the gritty sap inside my bones, and I couldn’t make it out; I felt the voiced vowel like a sigh or a note but I couldn’t catch the consonant that shaped it into sense.

Today I speak the truth as I know it to be, tomorrow I may know better.

To esteem what makes you holy over what makes you happy - that is the greatest dare.

To please God, live a godly life and nurture kindness, compassion, justice, and humility.

To nurture your career, it makes sense to cultivate your strengths. To nurture your moral core, it is necessary to confront your weaknesses.

Too many non-achievers confuse humility with humiliation.

'Tragedy admires man. Comedy feels a bit sorry for him.' We think we are kings or queens, masters of the universe or at least our own destiny. We forget that a foot may crush us, or that the wind may knock us down. We are not in control. We are subject to gas and sloughing skin and dirty pores. Most of our joints will eventually fail us. We have big brains which we can imagine great things, but we can't really get off the ground. It's like we have wings but we can't fly.

To show humility [vinaya] towards disrespect [avinaya] is strong humility [gaadha vinaya). To maintain humility even when a disrespectful person slaps you; that is called absolute strongest humility [param avgaadha vinaya].

to understand the real reasons to uphold humility, know your real roots, remember death and study the masses

To worship means to go higher. If you join the one who has gone higher, you will go higher and if you speak ill of that person, you will fall down.

Treat others with respect. Carry yourself with an air of humility. Nobody likes to work with someone who is arrogant, egotistical or a “know-it-all.

True art comes from the anonymous self.

To wish to withstand the Holy Spirit would be the one unforgivable sin.

Travel is costly yes, but it pays dividends too.

Trials make you strong. Failure makes you humble. Challenges make you strive. Life keeps you going and growing

True devotion and humility is when you carelessly allow yourself to fall in love with things you consider will make you look inferior, which in essence, makes you superior.

True friends don't come with conditions.

True humility isn’t thinking less of yourself. It’s thinking of yourself exactly the way God thinks of you; not more and not less.

True knowledge should not produce pride; it should produce humility...Because the more you know, the more you know how much you don't know.

True humility doesn't kill our dreams; it provides a guardrail for them.

True humility is a kind of self-annihilation; and this is the centre of all virtues.

True humility is being able to accept criticisms as graciously as we accept compliments.

True humility is fearless honesty.

True humility emerges from a sense of wonder and awe. It’s an appreciation that our time on earth is limited but that there’s something timeless at the core of every being. Embracing humility liberates us from the egotism that drives both perfectionism and self-sabotage, opening us to a deeper experience of self-worth.

True humility is a humble heart.

True humility is a way of life. Humility must be imbibed, inculcated through self-awareness.

True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.

True service is a lifestyle. It acts from the ingrained patterns of living. It springs spontaneously to meet human need.

Truth is not fully explosive, but purely electric. You don't blow the world up with the truth; you shock it into motion.

Try not to force your idea on someone, but rather think about it with him. If you feel you have won the discussion, that is the wrong attitude. Try not to win the argument; just listen to it.

Twelve legions girded with angelic sword Were at his beck, the scorned and buffeted: He healed another's scratch; his own side bled, Side, feet, and hands, with cruel piercings gored. Oh wonderful the wonders left undone! And scarce less wonderful than those he wrought; Oh self-restraint, passing human thought, To have all power, and be as having none; Oh self-denying love, which felt alone For needs of others, never for its own.

Two classes of people make up the world: those who have found God, and those who are looking for Him - thirsting, hungering, seeking! And the great sinners came closer to Him than the proud intellectuals! Pride swells and inflates the ego; gross sinners are depressed, deflated and empty. They, therefore, have room for God. God prefers a loving sinner to a loveless 'saint'. Love can be trained; pride cannot. The man who thinks that he knows will rarely find truth; the man who knows he is a miserable, unhappy sinner, like the woman at the well, is closer to peace, joy and salvation than he knows.