Humility Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Meekness is marked by silence in the face of abuse and infamy, by submission to God's way, which is higher than our way as…

— V. Raymond Edman

While most of our suffering is self- inflicted, some is caused by or permitted by God. This sobering reality calls for deep submissiveness, especially…

— Neal A. Maxwell

Character is the product of daily, hourly actions, and words, and thoughts; daily forgivenesses, unselfishness, kindnesses, sympathies, charities, sacrifices for the good of others,…

— John Ross Macduff

The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all;

— Marquis de Sade

He who doesn't dream doesn't do anything else than sleep...even when he is awaken.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

I think that submissiveness can [be] and is a formidable weapon, which women will use as long as it isn't taken from them.

— Anne Desclos

There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and…

— Simone Weil

“The public must be reduced to passivity in the political realm, but for submissiveness to become a reliable trait, it must be entrenched in…

— Noam Chomsky

The old lessons of submissiveness and fragility made us victims. Women are so much more than that. You can be a businesswoman, a mother,…

— Beyonce Knowles