Humility
417 quotes: 31 by Keith Craft, 386 from other voices.
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- Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.
- Should any ask me, What is the first thing in religion? I would reply, The first, second, and third thing therein, nay all, is humility.
- Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
- Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.Thomas Henry HuxleySourced
- Slow success builds character, fast success builds ego.
- So long as we are full of self we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sins, and we shall be lenient to the sins of others.
- So much advantage in life comes from being willing to look like an idiot over the short term.
- Stay humble, tables turn quick.
- Stay true in the dark and humble in the spotlight.
- Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust.
- Surround yourself with people strong enough to change your mind.
- Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
- Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- Tell kids stories about your failures.
- Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of self-confidence.
- That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
- The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step towards repairing our loss.
- The best leaders are those who understand that their power flows through them, not from them.
- The best part of our knowledge is that which teaches us where knowledge leaves off and ignorance begins.
- The better a man is morally, the less conscious he is of his virtues. The greater the artist, the more aware he must be of his shortcomings.
- The bird of wisdom flies low, and seeks her food under hedges; the eagle himself would be starved if he always soared aloft and against the sun.
- The brave man thinks of himself last of all.
- The censorious commonly take up magnifying glasses to look at other person's imperfections, and diminishing glasses to look at their own enormities.
- The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head.
- The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
- The dumber you’re willing to look, the smarter you’re able to become.
- The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
- The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.
- The faults of the superior man are like the eclipses of the sun and moon. He has his faults, and all men see them; he changes, and all men look up to him.
- The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool.
- The great man loves the conversation or the book that convicts him, not that which soothes or flatters him.
- The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
- The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
- The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
- The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments and is yet willing to learn more.
- The less you speak of your greatness, the more I shall think of it.
- The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self.
- The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
- The man who can laugh at himself, and who is not anxious to have the last word, is right in the suburbs of greatness.
- The man who cannot wonder, who does not habitually wonder and worship, is but a pair of spectacles behind which there is no eye.