#humility

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

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It ain't the heat, it's the humility. ↗

— Yogi Berra

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Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

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I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves. ↗

— William Law

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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish. ↗

— David Mallet

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The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own. ↗

— Margaret Mead

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If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail. ↗

— Francis Quarles

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