#humility

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life. ↗

— George Arliss

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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. ↗

— Alfred Austin

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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

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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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I'm grateful for my brokenness. I'm grateful for my humility. ↗

— James McGreevey

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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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The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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