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"humility is to make a right estimate of one's self it is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that." »Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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"It ain't the heat, it's the humility." »Lawrence Peter Berra
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"If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect." »Ted Turner
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"I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility." »John Ruskin
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"In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility." »William Shakespeare
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"What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left." »Oscar Levant
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"205. A greedy man will always find himself in the shackles of humility." »Imam Ali, Peak of Eloquence (Nahjul Balagha)
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"humility is no substitute for a good personality." »Fran Lebowitz
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"The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Life is a long lesson in humility." »James M. Barrie
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"humility is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it." »E. D. Hulse
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"Always accept good fortune with grace and humility." »Mark L. Mika
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"Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility." »Johathan Edwards
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"humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are." »Laurence Peter
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"humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride." »Ernest Hemingway, "The Old Man and the Sea"
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"God, give me courage to do what I can, humility to admit what I can't, and wisdom to know the difference." »B. J. Gupta
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"I never yet found pride in a noble nature nor humility in an unworthy mind." »Feltham
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"Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters." »Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
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"If we were to be asked suddenly to give a definition of humility we would doubtless be greatly embarrassed." »Edwin Holt Hughes
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"You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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""Faith is the manifestation of courage, confidence, kindness, compassion, foregiveness and humility combined."" »Mike Pickett
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"humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"Six essential qualities that are the key to success Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity." »Dr. William Claire Menninger
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"Obstinate silence implies either a mean opinion of ourselves, or a contempt for our company; and it is the more provoking, as others do not know to which of these causes to attribute it?whether humility or pride." »Hazlitt
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"Personally I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world [chess] championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility." »Richard Dawkings:, "The Selfish Gene"
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"By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?" »Jackie Mason
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"If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail." »Francis Quarles
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"The road to success leads through the valley of humility, and the path is up the ladder of patience and across the wide barren plains of perseverance. As yet, no short cut has ever been discovered." »Joseph J. Lamb
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"The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion humility." »Charles Caleb Colton
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"The mission before us as ambassadors is to assure peace among, as it were, the diplomatic corps of fellow ambassadors. Thus we are to walk in lowliness (humility) and meekness, which foster longsuffering and enable us to forbear one another in love." »Stephen Shober
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