Humility

[Lorenzo]

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

-Pollok

[Lorenzo]

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

-Augustine

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

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

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

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

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

[Lorenzo]

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

-Massinger

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

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

[Lorenzo]

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

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

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Blushing is the color of virtue.  ~Diogenes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Lorenzo]

Thanks for sharing these quotes, Fr. Roel.