Humility is the foundation from which love, grace, forgiveness, compassion, kindness and gentleness flow.
(uncredited) "Early Light," InTouch Magazine, May 2001.
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Humility is the surest sign of strength.
Thomas Merton Body, Mind and Spirit: Daily Inspiration for Healing and Wholeness
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Take your work seriously, but never yourself.
Dame Margot Fonteyn Treasury of Women's Quotations
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He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.
William Shakespeare [Troilus and Cressida] Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
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Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation.
St. Francis of Assisi Body, Mind and Spirit: Daily Inspiration for Healing and Wholeness
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Austerity is an ornament, humility is honorable.
Indian (Tamil) proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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Whatever accomplishment you boast of in the world, there is someone better than you.
African (Hausa) proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Robert Half The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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It is a great art to laught at your own misfortune.
Danish proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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I believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness of something wider than materialism; in the capacity to live in a world that makes you unselfish because you are not overanxious about your personal place; that makes you tolerant because you realize your own comic fallibilities; that gives you tranquility without complacency because you believe in something so much larger than yourself.
Sir Hugh Walpole Light from Many Lamps
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