Author Topic: Humility (Read 1323 times)

Lorenzo · « **on:** July 07, 2012, 10:29:35 PM »

Highest when it stoops
Lowest before the holy throne; throws down
Its crown abased; forgets itself, admires,
And breathes ador'ing praise.

-Pollok

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Lorenzo · « **Reply #1 on:** July 07, 2012, 10:30:03 PM »

The sufficiency of my merit is to known that my merit is not sufficient.

-Augustine

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chicogon · « **Reply #2 on:** July 07, 2012, 10:37:57 PM »

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all. ~William Temple

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chicogon · « **Reply #3 on:** July 07, 2012, 10:38:15 PM »

Swallow your pride occasionally, it's non-fattening! ~Author Unknown

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chicogon · « **Reply #4 on:** July 07, 2012, 10:38:59 PM »

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. ~Benjamin Franklin

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chicogon · « **Reply #5 on:** July 07, 2012, 10:39:26 PM »

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. ~Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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chicogon · « **Reply #6 on:** July 07, 2012, 10:39:51 PM »

If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect. ~Ted Turner

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chicogon · « **Reply #7 on:** July 07, 2012, 10:40:13 PM »

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. ~Malcolm S. Forbes

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Lorenzo · « **Reply #8 on:** July 07, 2012, 10:40:21 PM »

Be wise,
Soar not too high to fall, but stoop to rise.

-Massinger

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chicogon · « **Reply #9 on:** July 07, 2012, 10:40:48 PM »

There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a BILLION people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you. ~A. Whitney Brown, The Big Picture

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chicogon · « **Reply #10 on:** July 07, 2012, 10:41:11 PM »

We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm. ~Winston Churchill

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chicogon · « **Reply #11 on:** July 07, 2012, 10:41:37 PM »

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles. ~Niccolo Machiavelli

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Lorenzo · « **Reply #12 on:** July 07, 2012, 10:41:40 PM »

There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a BILLION people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you. ~A. Whitney Brown, The Big Picture

Excellent quote !

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chicogon · « **Reply #13 on:** July 07, 2012, 10:44:48 PM »

It is always the secure who are humble. ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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chicogon · « **Reply #14 on:** July 07, 2012, 10:45:31 PM »

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. ~Rabindranath Tagore

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chicogon · « **Reply #15 on:** July 07, 2012, 10:45:51 PM »

Blushing is the color of virtue. ~Diogenes

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chicogon · « **Reply #16 on:** July 07, 2012, 10:46:16 PM »

Don't look for more honor than your learning merits. ~Jewish Proverb

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chicogon · « **Reply #17 on:** July 07, 2012, 10:46:37 PM »

Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. ~Eric Hoffer, The True Believer, 1951

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chicogon · « **Reply #18 on:** July 07, 2012, 10:46:55 PM »

When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high. ~Mary H. Waldrip

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chicogon · « **Reply #19 on:** July 07, 2012, 10:47:26 PM »

With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. ~Arthur Schopenhauer

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chicogon · « **Reply #20 on:** July 07, 2012, 10:47:47 PM »

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves. ~Benjamin Whichcote

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chicogon · « **Reply #21 on:** July 07, 2012, 10:48:21 PM »

One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause. ~Robert Brault

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chicogon · « **Reply #22 on:** July 07, 2012, 10:49:11 PM »

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with. ~Peter Marshall

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chicogon · « **Reply #23 on:** July 07, 2012, 10:49:30 PM »

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

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chicogon · « **Reply #24 on:** July 07, 2012, 10:49:55 PM »

The man who thinks he can live without others is mistaken; the one who thinks others can't live without him is even more deluded. ~Hasidic Saying

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chicogon · « **Reply #25 on:** July 07, 2012, 10:50:21 PM »

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. ~Dwight Morrow

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chicogon · « **Reply #26 on:** July 07, 2012, 10:50:42 PM »

If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~Welsh Proverb

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chicogon · « **Reply #27 on:** July 07, 2012, 10:51:04 PM »

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. ~George Eliot, Adam Bede, 1859

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chicogon · « **Reply #28 on:** July 07, 2012, 10:51:18 PM »

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. ~James McNeill Whistler

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chicogon · « **Reply #29 on:** July 07, 2012, 10:52:13 PM »

You shouldn't gloat about anything you've done; you ought to keep going and find something better to do. ~David Packard

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chicogon · « **Reply #30 on:** July 07, 2012, 10:52:32 PM »

Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected. ~William Safire

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chicogon · « **Reply #31 on:** July 07, 2012, 10:53:04 PM »

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others. ~William Hazlitt

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chicogon · « **Reply #32 on:** July 07, 2012, 10:53:24 PM »

Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. ~Oliver Herford

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chicogon · « **Reply #33 on:** July 07, 2012, 10:53:47 PM »

Modesty: The art of encouraging people to find out for themselves how wonderful you are. ~Source Unknown

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chicogon · « **Reply #34 on:** July 07, 2012, 10:53:59 PM »

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale. ~Adlai Stevenson

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Lorenzo · « **Reply #35 on:** July 08, 2012, 12:00:55 PM »

Thanks for sharing these quotes, Fr. Roel.

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