In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
The values they instilled in me, both my mother and my father, are humility, love, dedication and commitment - values I took… — Joao Cancelo Copy Share Image
It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
If you are humble, nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know who you are. — Mother Theresa Copy Share Image
You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced. — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
“A poor man is not disposed to quick and high resentment when he is among the rich: he is apt to yield… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“He (Lincoln) differed from fanatical moralists primarily in that he was always perplexed. No sooner did he believe he was doing God's… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
Obedience is the burial of the will and the resurrection of humility. — John Climacus Copy Share Image
As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“Humility is the product of ongoing repentance as one decides against, turns from, and by watching and praying seeks to steer clear… — J.I. Packer Copy Share Image
It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The highest degree of meekness consists in seeing, serving, honoring, and treating amiably, on occasion, those who are not to our taste,… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
“With characteristic lack of false modesty, John once said to me, "My looks are a rough test of people. If they don't… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
A good trader has to have three things: a chronic inability to accept things at face value, to feel continuously unsettled, and… — Michael Steinhardt Copy Share Image
“As on enquiring agnostic one seeks, not the smugness of atheism, not the blindness of idolatry - nor even the complacency of… — Andrew Ashdown Copy Share Image
When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
“the humblest, and at the same time most balanced and capacious, praised most, while the crank, misfits and malcontents praised least.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
That’s why an artist must be a warrior and, like all warriors, artists over time acquire modesty and humility. They may, some… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
