Humility

(369 votes)   With all humility, I think, ''Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.'' Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing, you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
1841-1935, American Judge

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(362 votes)   Only those who feel little in the eyes of God, can hope to be mighty in the eyes of men.

Ernest Moritz Arndt
1769-1860, Swedish-born German Poet, Patriot

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(357 votes)   I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might, infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
1841-1935, American Judge

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(338 votes)   Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(327 votes)   Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(317 votes)   Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

Vince Lombardi
1913-1970, American Football Coach

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(304 votes)   Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(303 votes)   If you would have people speak well of you, then do not speak well of yourself.

Blaise Pascal
1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher

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(289 votes)   They are proud in humility, proud that they are not proud.

Robert Burton
1576-1640, British Clergyman, Scholar

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(280 votes)   Too much humility is pride.

German Proverbs
Sayings of German Origin

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(262 votes)   The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.

Josh Billings
1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer

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(258 votes)   It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.

St. Bernard
1090-1153, French Theologian and Reformer

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(256 votes)   A man who is at the top is a man who has the habit of getting to the bottom.

Joseph E. Rogers

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(248 votes)   Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Ludwig Van Beethoven
1770-1827, German Composer

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(244 votes)   A vulgar mind is proud in prosperity and humble in adversity. A noble mind is humble in prosperity and proud in adversity.

Ruckett

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