Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.
In meditation the mind stops, thought ceases. When thought stops, the world stops. When the world stops, perception stops. When perception stops, the sense of "I" as a perceiver falls away.
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation.
Humility means realizing that it's fun to give everything away, particularly the things that you are most attached to.
Humility is simply believing and accepting what God says about us, and God says that we are anything but worthless.
The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly yoke.
The path to glory is rough, and many gloomy hours obscure it. May the Great Spirit shed light on your path, so that you may never experience the humility that the power of the American government has reduced me to. This is the wish of a man who, in his native forests, was once as proud and bold as yourself.
And as for death - we get what we expect.
Every truth ever discovered -- each new light that will ever burn bright -- already exists in our consciousness. All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice -- the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows -- awaits us within ourselves. Hidden in this truth is our great promise, both as individuals and as a race of beings.
Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.
Exercise humility and restraint.
Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!
Truth must the guide of those who hold the power; but humility is their sign, the promise that their privileges are in safe hands.
The Ultimate expression of Humility comes when we control our senses.
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of a certain type of Christian thought has seriously impaired this capacity, which nonviolence must recover.
That’s why an artist must be a warrior and, like all warriors, artists over time acquire modesty and humility. They may, some of them, conduct themselves flamboyantly in public. But alone with the work they are chaste and humble. They know they are not the source of the creations they bring into being. They only facilitate. They carry. They are the willing and skilled instruments of the gods and goddesses they serve.
I've striven my whole life for humility, but if I'd ever achieved it, I'd probably be pretty damn proud of that.
The very design of the gospel doth tend to self-abasing; and the work of grace is begun and carried on in humiliation. Humility is not a mere ornament of a Christian, but an essential part of the new creature: it is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true Christian, and not humble.