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Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation.
Quote by -Bruce Lee
Cancer has given me a dose of humility. I'm much more empathetic. It's a club I would rather not have joined, but it is a club.
Quote by -Tom Brokaw
“The corrupt man is the one who sins but does not repent, who sins and pretends to be Christian, and it is this double life that is scandalous. The corrupt man does not know humility, he does not consider himself in need of help, he leads a double life.”
Quote by -Pope Francis
“I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.”
Quote by -Helen de Keller
“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.” – C.S. Lewis
Quote by -C.S. Lewis
"In this land some of us fuck more than we die but most of us die better than we fuck"
Quote by -Charles Bukowski
"The humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral."
Quote by -Dallas Willard
Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.
Quote by -Larry David
No better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; no true beauty without the signature of these graces in the very countenance.
Quote by -John Ray
We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.
Quote by -Rumi
Join the community of saints and know the delight of your own soul. Enter the ruins of your heart and learn the meaning of humility.
Quote by -Rumi
I can't even begin to visualize myself as a five-star general... When I think of the people who are five-star generals, I can't even see myself standing in their shadow.
Quote by -Norman Schwarzkopf
First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that's a joke and everybody in the world knows it.
Quote by -Norman Schwarzkopf
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 to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
Quote by -Alice Walker
“His lifetime was less than a fraction of a second in infinity. Or maybe he did not even exist; maybe human beings, the planets, everything in Creation were a dream...an illusion. He smiled with humility when he remembered...”
Quote by -Isabel Allende
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honored by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
Quote by -Mahatama Gandhi
"You son of a bitch, she said, I am trying to build a meaningful relationship. you can't build it with a hammer, he said."
Quote by -Charles Bukowski
"There is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy"
Quote by -Charles Bukowski
"We know we cannot be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them -- exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting animals in the name of sport, exploiting animals in the name of fashion, and yes, exploiting animals in the name of food."
Quote by -Cesar Chavez
"Why did he go onward? Why did he not rest here upon the bottom of utmost humiliation and for a while take his content? But he went onward."
Quote by -Carson McCullers
"With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive."
Quote by -Oliver Goldsmith
“Let people realize clearly that every time they threaten someone or humiliate or unnecessarily hurt or dominate or reject another human being, they become forces for the creation of psychopathology, even if these be small forces. Let them recognize that every person who is kind, helpful, decent, psychologically democratic, affectionate, and warm, is a psychotheraputic force, even though a small one.”
Quote by -Abraham Maslow
“The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. ”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“Perhaps when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
Quote by -William Tecumseh Sherman
No army has ever marched into battle thinking that the Creator had sided with their enemy.
Quote by -Terry Goodkind
When it came down to doing the nude scene, I couldn't hide how humiliating it was for me; I burst into tears.
Quote by -Sally
Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review.
Quote by -Robert Duvall
We don't have any intention whatsoever to use military force to solve the Palestinian problem. But when it comes to terror - when it comes to terror, I believe that military - the right military steps is a very, very complicated kind of warfare, where I make every effort not to escalate the situation.
Quote by -H. L. Mencken