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"I'm just a weapon of the god."

Janet Morris, Chris Morris

Humility, Spirituality, Modesty, Honesty
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A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.

E. W. Howe

Humility
3

A vulgar mind is proud in prosperity and humble in adversity. A noble mind is humble in prosperity and proud in adversity.

Ruckett

Humility
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Be it ever so humble, there's no opinion like one's own.

Humility
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Before honor is humility.

Humility
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Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. -- Philippians 2:3

Humility
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Don't be humble, you're not that great.

Golda Meir

Humility
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He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Humility
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Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.

William S. Burroughs

Humility
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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

Fran Lebowitz

Humility
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Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Humility
12

Humility is the ladder to divine understanding.

Humility
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Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.

Henry David Thoreau

Humility
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I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

Muhammad Ali

Humility
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I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might, infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Humility
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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

Humility
17

If you are right, take the humble side -- you will help the other fellow. If you are wrong, take the humble side -- and you will help yourself.

Humility
18

If you would have people speak well of you, then do not speak well of yourself.

Blaise Pascal

Humility
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

Augustine of Hippo

Humility
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Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

Vince Lombardi

Humility
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

Alexander Pope

Humility
22

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Humility
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One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Humility
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Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.

Thomas Carlyle

Humility
25

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

John Ruskin

Humility
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Charles de Gaulle

Humility
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The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.

Phaedrus

Humility
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The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.

Josh Billings

Humility
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They are proud in humility, proud that they are not proud.

Robert Burton

Humility
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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Baruch Spinoza

Humility
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Too humble is half proud.

Humility
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Too much humility is pride.

Humility
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We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

Rabindranath Tagore

Humility
34

When we become aware of our humility, we've lost it.

Humility
35

When you are as great as I am it is hard to be humble.

Muhammad Ali

Humility
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With all humility, I think, Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might. Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing, you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Humility

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"I'm just a weapon of the god."

A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.

A vulgar mind is proud in prosperity and humble in adversity. A noble mind is humble in prosperity and proud in adversity.

Be it ever so humble, there's no opinion like one's own.

Before honor is humility.

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. -- Philippians 2:3

Don't be humble, you're not that great.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

Humility is the ladder to divine understanding.

Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

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.

If you are right, take the humble side -- you will help the other fellow. If you are wrong, take the humble side -- and you will help yourself.

If you would have people speak well of you, then do not speak well of yourself.

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.

Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.

The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.

They are proud in humility, proud that they are not proud.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Too humble is half proud.

Too much humility is pride.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

When we become aware of our humility, we've lost it.

When you are as great as I am it is hard to be humble.