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#1

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: humility, self-improvement

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#2

“If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.”
― Epictetus

tags: history, humility, philosophy

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#3

“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

tags: humility

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#4

“True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.”
― Martin Luther

tags: humility

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#5

“To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.”
― Criss Jami

tags: confidence, confronting, courage, honesty, humble, humility, imperfections, naked, self-disclosure, share, strength-of-character, vulnerability, weakness

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#6

“Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.”
― Ann Landers

tags: humility, pride

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#7

“One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

tags: humility

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#8

“You cannot exalt God and yourself at the same time.”
― Rick Warren

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#9

“If pain doesn't lead to humility, you have wasted your suffering.”
― Katerina Stoykova Klemer

tags: humility, pain, personal-development, personal-growth, suffering

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#10

“I’m sure I am wrong about many things, although I’m not sure exactly which things I’m wrong about. I’m even sure I’m wrong about what I think I’m right about in at least some cases.”
― Brian McLaren, A Generous Orthodoxy

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#11

“A solid answer to everything is not necessary. Blurry concepts influence one to focus, but postulated clarity influences arrogance.”
― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

tags: answers, arrogance, blurred, clarity, cockiness, influence, solid

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#12

“Sorrow is humbling. I want my pain to be fabulous. I don't need my pain to be worse than anyone else's; I just want it to be strangely, uniquely mine. Art to someone else's breakdown.

— Thea Hillman, "Dear Kath After"

from the anthology Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache”
― Clint Catalyst, Michelle Tea, Thea Hillman, Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person

tags: clint-catalyst, humility, michelle-tea, pain, sorrow, thea-hillman

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#13

“The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord - it feels great - but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: achievement, barrier, determination, development, feelings, help, helping-hand, humility, improvement, inferiority, intelligence, knowledge, learning, self-improvement, taught, teaching, wisdom

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#14

“You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

tags: humility, testimony, wonder, worship

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#15

“Selflessness is humility. ... humility and freedom go hand in hand. Only a humble person can be free.”
― Jeff Wilson, Buddhism of the Heart: Reflections on Shin Buddhism and Inner Togetherness

tags: freedom, humbleness, humility

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#16

“Self-emptiness prepares us for spiritual fullness.”
― Richard Sibbes

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#17

“humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.”
― John Piper

tags: effort, humility, wisdom

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#18

“Humility is the nearly impossible task of being more concerned with our own sins that we are with the sins of others.”
― Trevor hammack

tags: humility, meekness

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#19

“The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

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#20

“A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness.”
― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

tags: correction, denial, facing, facing-fear, facing-problems, fear, fear-of-failure, honest, honesty, humble, humility, lying-to-ourselves, paradox, reversal, reverse, strength, strengthening, weak, weakening, weakness

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#21

“Many times when we help we do not really serve. . . . Serving is also different from fixing. One of the pioneers of the Human Potential Movement, Abraham Maslow, said, "If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.' Seeing yourself as a fixer may cause you to see brokenness everywhere, to sit in judgment of life itself. When we fix others, we may not see their hidden wholeness or trust the integrity of the life in them. Fixers trust their own expertise. When we serve, we see the unborn wholeness in others; we collaborate with it and strengthen it. Others may then be able to see their wholeness for themselves for the first time.”
― Rachel Remen

tags: helping, humility, respect, service

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#22

“A poor man is not disposed to quick and high resentment when he is among the rich: he is apt to yield to others, for he knows others are above him: he is not stiff and self-willed; he is patient with hard fare; he expects no other than to be despised, and takes it patiently; he does not take it heinously that he overlooked and but little regarded; he is prepared to be in a lowly place; he readily honours his superiors; he takes reproofs quietly; he readily honours others as above him; he easily yields to be taught, and does not claim much to his understanding and judgment; he is not over nice or humoursome, and has his spirit subdued to hard things; he is not assuming, nor apt to take much upon him, but it is natural for him to be subject to others. Thus it is with the humble Christian.”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Religious Affections

tags: humility, poor, poor-in-spirit, poverty, spirit

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#24

“Love the life you have been given. And be humbled by it. It is not to be despised.”
― G. Willow Wilson

tags: cairo, humility, life, love

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#25

“It is easy to do good, but it takes a lifetime to become human!”
― AainaA-Ridtz A R

tags: becoming, being, human, humility, life

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#26

“Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness – Classic Devotional Meditations on the Character of Christ

tags: glory-of-god, humility

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#27

“Lord, help me to begin to begin.”
― George Whitefield

tags: humility, initiative

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#28

“When a man truly sees himself, he knows nobody can say anything about him that is too bad.”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

tags: humility, meekness, sin, slander

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#29

“A humble man speaks not of his own humility”
― Jeremy Aldana

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#30

“Every time I create something, whether an idea or a work of art, initially, its supposed completion seems absolutely perfect to me. However the more I think about it, stare it down, the more it marinates in my soul over the hours, days, and weeks, the more flaws I start to find in it; and finally, the more I'm pressed to continue enhancing it. It essentially turns out that whatever thing a flawed and imperfect, human eye once thought was amazing begins to appear quite wretched. This is why, eternally, God cannot be impressed by mere talents or by mortal achievements. To perfect eyes, I imagine that great is not really that great; rather, humility is ultimately a human being's true greatness.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

tags: achievement, art, completion, flaws, god, greatness, humility, incomplete, perfection

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