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humility
«We're sitting on our blessed Mother Earth from which we get our strength and determination, love and humility - all the beautiful attributes that we've been given. So turn to one another; love one another; respect one another; respect Mother Earth; respect the waters - because that's life itself!»
Author: Phil Lane, Sr.
| Keywords:
attributes, attributing, blessed, determination, humility, mother Earth, sitting, turn to, waters
«True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.»
Author: Ralph W. Sockman
| About:
Humility,
Self-respect,
Thinking
| Keywords:
come short, highly, humility, meanly, modest, reminding, self respect
«The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| About:
Christianity,
Religion
| Keywords:
abasement, contempt, cowardice, humility, preach, social, submission, submissions, The Social
«The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Christianity
| Keywords:
arrogance, Christian Churches, hostile, humility, in common, in name, opposites, penitence, rigidity, submissiveness, The Christian, usurpation, utterly
«The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it»
Author: Mignon McLaughlin
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Humility
| Keywords:
humility, proud, proud of
«To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility -- these are marks of maturity and graciousness.»
Author: William Arthur Ward
| Keywords:
bear, criticism, criticisms, defeat, dignities, dignity, graciousness, honors, humility, Marks, maturity, poise, receive
«We ought to give thanks for all fortune: it is is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works in us patience, humility and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Fortune
| Keywords:
contempt, give thanks, humility, IS IS, thanks
«The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Church,
Humility
| Keywords:
humility
«We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Humility
| Keywords:
humility, nearest
