humility

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Humility 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 It’s not that you have to be humble. You just have to be real. ~Georgia Nicols The empty vessel makes the greatest sound. ~William Shakespeare If the angel deigns to come it will be because you have convinced her, not by tears, but by your humble resolve to be always beginning; to be a beginner. ~Rainer Maria Rilke Insomuch as you can be simple and humble, and you can want nothing more than to know and serve God, you can rise to the heights of spiritual life. ~Clare Watts A leader is most effective when people barely knows he exists. When his work is done, his aim is fulfilled, his troops will feel they did it themselves. ~Lao Tzu When boasting ends, there dignity begins. ~Edward Young The more vanity a person has the less sympathy he has for others, for all his attention is given to his own satisfaction, and he is blind toward others. ~Hazrat Inayat Khan Pride, perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak. ~Thomas Fuller The firecracker cries aloud, “I am the light!” and is finished in a moment. The diamond, shining its light constantly, never says a word about its light. ~Hazrat Inayat Khan We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices? ~John Ortberg Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us. ~Jawaharlal Nehru Life is a long lesson in humility. ~James M. Barrie