“Sometimes humility is ego in disguise.”
“It doesn t make you a bad person to want to be remembered. To want to make it to the top. To provide for yourself and your family. After all, that s all part of the allure. There is a balance. Soccer coach Tony Adams expresses it well. Play for the name on the front of the jersey, he says, and they ll remember the name on the back.”
“Humility carries less weight and it makes things float. Pride is weighty and it makes things sink! It takes humility then for a ‘ship’, regardless of how loaded it is, to float on the surface of the ‘sea’. And it takes pride for the ‘small stone’ to sink when dropped into the ‘sea’! Go with humility then!”
“If you want to have an impact in your company, have a point of view that sometimes challenges the status quo but do the work required to make the point of view an informed one.”
“Without radical humility that is expressed in gestures of adoration and in sacred rituals, no friendship with God is possible. Silence manifests this connection in an obvious way. True Christian silence makes itself sacred silence first so as to become silence of communion.”
“Yes, I am your enemy, as I was in my other incarnations, but that is my nature, and it is something I cannot escape. As I am defeated today, I tell you to believe what you will. Just as you believe in yourself, your worst enemies believe in themselves”
“As I am defeated today, I tell you to believe what you will. Just as you believe yourself, your worst enemies believe in themselves.”
“Millennials (aka Generation Y) are great at social media (Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Twitter,Tumblr, Instagram, Flickr, Snapchat, Pinterest, YouTube, Vimeo, and Periscope) but lack time tested social skills ( patience, humility, active listening, respect for parents, teachers, elderly)”
“Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity.”
“Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion and somethings an indirect boast.”
“I believe this not in the sense that it is part of my creed, but in the sense that it is one of my opinions. My religion would not be in ruins if this opinion were shown to be false.”
“Arrogance created to project a self-image of superiority is the very trait that demonstrates to others deeply hidden inferiority.”
“My dear Sir. Yours of the 13th. is just received. My engagements are such that I can not, at any very early day, visit Rock-Island, to deliver a lecture, or for any other object. As to the other matter you kindly mention, I must, in candor, say I do not think myself fit for the Presidency. I certainly am flattered, and gratified, that some partial friends think of me in that connection; but I really think it best for our cause that no concerted effort, such as you suggest, should be made. Let this be considered confidential. Yours very truly, {Abraham Lincoln}”
“Sometimes you have to do things you don t want to do but you suck it up and do it anyway, and that s what teaches you humility, work ethic, responsibility, and follow-through.”
“Loving ourselves so much, we are naturally led to enlarge our own merits, to play down our transgressions, to judge others by different standards from those used to judge ourselves. Enlarged merits? They are described by your fellow-writer Trilussa: The little snail of Vainglory Who had crawled up an obelisk Looked at its slimy trail and said: I see I ll leave my mark on History. This is the way we are, dear Twain; even a bit of slime, if it is our own, and because it is our own, makes us boast, gives us a swelled head!”
“Humility and brokenness before God is the key to making your body the dwelling place of God”
“Right or Wrong, most times, merely depends on perspective. It takes humility (not necessarily logic) to let go of our egos to see through the other person s eyes. But I guess even I, myself, can t let go to see why you d object.”