Quotes and Sayings About Humility
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When a Krishna Conscious person is elevated to a responsible position, he never becomes puffed up. Just like a tree when over-laden with fruits becomes humble and lower down. Similarly, a great soul in Krishna Consciousness becomes humbler than the grass and bowed down like the fruitful trees because a Krishna Conscious person acts as the agent of Krishna, therefore he discharges his duty with great responsibility.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
A tree full of ripened fruits bows down naturally, because of the weight of the fruits and its willingness to make its fruits accessible to others.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
Be very humble when you plan so that Krishna is happy with you.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
Beginning of all knowledge comes from humility.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
Humility is not weakness, but strength under control
-- A. R. Bernard -
Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life – and maybe even please a few strangers.
-- A.L. Kennedy -
Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.
-- Aaron Swartz -
Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.
-- Abba Eban -
There is one common thing in superstars - enthusiasm and humility towards their work. Off sets, they are big stars for others, and they carry themselves the way they want to. When they are working, they are not stars.
-- Abhishek Bachchan -
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Superficial knowledge breeds arrogance; true knowledge induces humility.
-- Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi -
There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
-- Abu Bakr -
The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
-- Abu Bakr -
Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
-- Adam Clarke -
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
One must be willing to stand alone - in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one's conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility.
-- Adyashanti -
We can express our worship to God in many ways. But if we love the Lord and are led by His Holy Spirit, our worship will always bring a delighted sense of admiring awe and a sincere humility on our part.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
The meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. He has accepted God's estimate of his own life: In himself, nothing; In God, everything. He knows well that the world will never see him as God sees him and he has stopped caring.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
For the Christian, humility is absolutely indispensable. Without it there can be no self-knowledge, no repentance, no faith and no salvation.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Let any man turn to God in earnest, let him begin to exercise himself unto godliness, let him seek to develop his powers of spiritual receptivity by trust and obedience and humility, and the results will exceed anything he may have hoped in his leaner and weaker days.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
There are two classes of Christians: the proud who imagine they are humble and the humble who are afraid they are proud. There should be another class: the self-forgetful who leave the whole thing in the hands of Christ and refuse to waste any time trying to make themselves good. They will reach the goal far ahead of the rest.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
It takes simplicity and humility to worship God acceptably.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
And what kind of habitation pleases God? What must our natures be like before he can feel at home within us? He asks nothing but a pure heart and a single mind. He asks no rich paneling, no rugs from the Orient, no art treasures from afar. He desires but sincerity, transparency, humility, and love. He will see to the rest.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
George W. Bush promised us a foreign policy with humility. Instead, he has brought us humiliation in the eyes of the world. He promised to restore honor and integrity to the White House. Instead, he has brought deep dishonor to our country and built a durable reputation as the most dishonest president since Richard M. Nixon.
-- Al Gore -
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.
-- Alan Alda -
Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.
-- Alan Cohen
