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Humility Quotes by Maya Angelou
- You don't want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I'm here because I've been…
- It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is to prepare myself…
- We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange…
- Modesty is a learned affectation. It's no good. Humility is great, because humility says, 'There was someone before me. I'm following in somebody's footsteps.'
- What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need…
More Humility Quotes
- It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. — Saint Augustine
- Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of… — Saint Augustine
- Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot… — Saint Augustine
- Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first… — Saint Augustine
- There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart. — Saint Augustine
- Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. — Jane Austen
- There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some… — Alfred Austin
- Be gentle to all and stern with yourself. — Teresa of Avila
- There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. — Teresa of Avila
- We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in… — Teresa of Avila
- The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too. — Teresa of Avila
- To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that. — Teresa of Avila