- “Simplicity and humility are the flowers of greatness.”
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Debasish Mridha
- The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love. Pope Francis
- The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. Winston Churchill
- Humility is the proper estimate of oneself. Charles Spurgeon Click to tweet
- “Our arrogance as a species is only a few degrees away from us claiming that we invented, not discovered, fire.”
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “Learning isn’t acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.”
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Criss Jami,
Killosophy
- “Modern life seems to recede further and further away from nature, and closely connected with this fact we seem to be losing the feeling of reverence towards nature. It is probably inevitable when science and machinery, capitalism and materialism go hand in hand so far in a most remarkably successful manner. Mysticism, which is the life of religion in whatever sense we understand it, has come to be relegated altogether in the background. Without a certain amount of mysticism there is no appreciation for the feeling of reverence, and, along with it, for the spiritual significance of humility. Science and scientific technique have done a great deal for humanity; but as far as our spiritual welfare is concerned we have not made any advances over that attained by our forefathers. In fact we are suffering at present the worst kind of unrest all over the world.”
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D.T. Suzuki,
The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk
- “It’s the ‘everyday’ experiences we encounter along the journey to who we wanna be that will define who we are when we get there.”
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Aaron Lauritsen,
100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
- The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. Søren Kierkegaard
- It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. Harry S. Truman (33rd U.S. President)
- Nobody has ever expected me to be president. In my poor, lean lank face nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting. Abraham Lincoln (16th U.S. President)
- “A lawyer’s empathy for her client deepens when she realizes that she has only seen the last couple of phases of his decline. How hard it must his initial adjustment have been to his loss of freedom?”
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Ron Suskind,
The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
- “True devotion and humility is when you carelessly allow yourself to fall in love with things you consider will make you look inferior, which in essence, makes you superior.”
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Michael Bassey Johnson
- “Ego, being love’s kryptonite; two souls must be on the same page of humility.”
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T.F. Hodge,
From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with “The Divine Presence”
- “Humility leads harmony in humanity.”
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Lailah Gifty Akita
- Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale. Adlai Stevenson
- The point is urgency. Appreciation. Humility. The present moment. Ryan Holiday
- “When we look for success, it should be for the sole purpose of boasting sincerely in Christ. There’s no other reason for it. Success is only worth it when the more intense it gets for you, the more you find yourself bragging for his glory rather than your own.”
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Criss Jami,
Killosophy
- What if, for starters, instead of constantly trying to prove how much smarter we are than others, we look for the intelligence in what others do. Neil Strauss
- “Humility, kindness, integrity, and compassion are the fragrances that I wear, and I strongly recommend that you try them.”
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Edmond Mbiaka
- Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. Colin Powell
- I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Jiddu Krishnamurti
- “We love our partners for who they are, not for who they are not.”
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Aaron Lauritsen,
100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
- “Humans are the most important entity in the universe … only to most people.”
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Mastery begins with humility. Robin Sharma Click to tweet
- “No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.”
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Orson F. Whitney
- “Learning is a feeling between humility and simplicity.”
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Alan Maiccon
- If you’re not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you. Mike Tyson
- If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. Booker T. Washington Click to tweet
- “There is a popular saying in Igbo ‘Amakam ihe na Ozubulu, puta Nnewi buru ewu’. This means, you can be so enlightened in a particular place and when you step outside that place, you become ignorant.Again, the Igbos say “Agwo otu onye furu na agho eke” – A snake seen my one man is usually described as a Python!Always try to see what and how others are doing. It will help you stop wallowing in an imaginary self glorification!Remember to be humble.”
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Magnus Nwagu Amudi