#Humility

"Life is a long lesson in humility."

"As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal."

"The best writers I've read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much."

"The ultimate story of success: When a nobody, who has never once in his entire life known the feeling of being remembered or respected, suddenly snaps and becomes a world dictator. On one hand it sounds just, but on the other, it illustrates the reason why a prosperity message has and needs its limitations."

"I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs."

"Author says her father was so diplomatic that when people came to him for solutions, people not only accepted them, but they believed they thought of them."

"The humble sinner will sometimes be interpreted as one of the filthiest in the eyes of man yet immersed in the eyes of God, and this is due to the volition of honesty regarding his own corruption."

"To respect a mystery is to make way for the answer."

"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility."

"I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so modestly and so humbly—to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims, all of them aimed at the exertion of power over other humans in the real and material world."

"While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal."

"Never curse a fall. The ground is where humility lives."

"Humor, humility, and, of course, honesty, all are qualities that work in public and cultural diplomacy."

"Your success should create a path that inspires others to follow."

"There’s no reason to not be humble, because as great as you may be, you can always be greater."

"It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!(Institutio III.2.3)"

"You cannot exalt God and yourself at the same time."

"There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table."

"Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers’, but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly."

"I am not the moon orbiting around your planet; I am the sun that will burn through your frozen mind."