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- Pride is the problem, humility is the answer. Joyce Meyer
- Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. Martin Luther King Jr
- To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength. Criss Jami
- People speak well of the man who does not speak too much of himself. @TheStoicEmperor
- “So it is that the great man through his actions will not set out to harm others, nor make much of benevolence and charity; he does not make any move for gain, nor consider the servant at the gate as lowly; he will not barter for property and riches, nor does he make much of having turned them down; he asks for no one’s help, nor does he make much of his own self-reliance, nor despise the greedy and mean; he does not follow the crowd, nor does he make much of being so different; he comes behind the crowd, but does not make much of those who get ahead through flattery. The titles and honours of this world are of no interest to him, nor is he concerned at the disgrace of punishments. He knows there is no distinction between right and wrong, nor between great and little. I have heard it said, “The Tao man earns no reputation, perfect Virtue is not followed, the great man is self-less.” In perfection, this is the path he follows.”
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Zhuangzi,
The Book of Chuang Tzu
- “Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.”
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Aberjhani,
Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
- Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble. Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. Søren Kierkegaard
- “Thanks to their egos, instead of simply saying that they do not know, some people sometimes try very hard to remember something they know they have never known.”
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Humility is the greatest quality that a man can have, and arrogance is undoubtedly the worst. Maulana W. Khan
- “I pity the man who praises God only when things go his way.”
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Criss Jami,
Healology
- Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. Simone Weil
- “They loved the sound of their own voices. No decision would be reached anytime soon.”
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Stephen L. Carter,
Back Channel
- “Size and elaboration were often mistaken for importance.”
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Stephen L. Carter,
Back Channel
- “Martin Luther used to say temptation is the best teacher for a minister.”
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon,
Lectures to My Students
- “We sit here and we talk about sports. We talk about our home improvement projects. We gossip about family members we don’t care about. We self-victimize and complain about petty problems we’ve created ourselves. We work like dogs to keep up with the Joneses but have no time to enjoy the things we work for. We work purposeless jobs that keep us mildly happy, never really enjoying what we do, but we also never get the balls to leave the job. We drink on the weekends to numb the pain but it never really cures it. We criticize anyone who tries to break away from the rat race, because the idea that there is a way out scares us more than dying in the state we’re in. We only give to causes that affect us personally, only follow religions that suit us, only listen to people who agree with us, and worst of all,” he paused, and in a sad, defeated finale to his rant, he said, “We lie to ourselves.”
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Cic Mellace,
The Humble Good
- Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware. The cosmic banana peel is suddenly going to appear underfoot to make sure you don’t take it all too seriously, that you don’t fill up on junk food. Anne Lamott
- “It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that, the most powerful tool at his disposal, was the scientific method, which over time winnows out deception. It can’t give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality.”
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Ann Druyan
- You must be humble, but never “modest”. Paulo Coelho
- “The trouble is that we have a very wrong notion of humility; we associate it with timidity, self-effacement and lowliness in its worst sense!”
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Dada J. P. Vaswani
- “When reduced to nothing more than principle of the mind, humility will never be low enough for humility. On principle, the man who lives in the small mountain cottage is more large and luxurious than the man who lives in the tiny shack; the man who lives in the tiny shack, than the man who sleeps on the bank; the man who sleeps on the bank, than the man who wanders the desert; the man who wanders the desert at least has legs to wander while many other men do not. To reduce by the standards of men is to morally compete against men, and to reduce by one’s own standards is ego-driven. A man can decrease his life to death and never reach true lowliness because humility on principle of the mind is not humility at all but rather its opposite: the pride of competition – only in reverse. Therefore it seems that, perhaps, true humility is nothing one can achieve; it hides in purity of the heart given only by the one perfect Christ.”
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Criss Jami
- There’s no need to show off when you know who you are. Maxime Lagacé Click to tweet
- It is the desire for success that prevents humility; and without humility how can there be understanding? Jiddu Krishnamurti
- “Oh Lord Most High, Creator of the Cosmos, Spinner of Galaxies, Soul of Electromagnetic Waves, Inhaler and Exhaler of Inconceivable Volumes of Vacuum, Spitter of Fire and Rock, Trifler with Millennia — what could we do for Thee that Thou couldst not do for Thyself one octillion times better? Nothing. What could we do or say that could possibly interest Thee? Nothing. Oh, Mankind, rejoice in the apathy of our Creator, for it makes us free and truthful and dignified at last. No longer can a fool point to a ridiculous accident of good luck and say, ‘Somebody up there likes me.’ And no longer can a tyrant say, ‘God wants this or that to happen, and anyone who doesn’t help this or that to happen is against God.’ O Lord Most High, what a glorious weapon is Thy Apathy, for we have unsheathed it, have thrust and slashed mightily with it, and the claptrap that has so often enslaved us or driven us into the madhouse lies slain!” -The prayer of the Reverend C. Horner Redwine”
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Kurt Vonnegut,
The Sirens of Titan
- “Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.”
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Criss Jami,
Healology
- “False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.”
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Criss Jami,
Healology
- “Travel is costly yes, but it pays dividends too.”
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Aaron Lauritsen,
100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
- “The servitude spirit founded on humility fetches far more enduring rewards than worldly glory can give”.”
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Venugopal Acharya
- “… nothing is more insidious than spiritual pride; nothing is more impervious to identification. No, the monastic mind0set says, spiritual development is not an event. Spiritual development is a process of continuing conversion. “What do you do in the monastery?” an ancient tale asks. “Oh, we fall and we get up. We fall and we get up,” the old monastic answers. In monastic spirituality, we never arrive; we are always arriving.”
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Joan Chittister
- “Religiousity is unself glory not purity”
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