#humble

If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#been #boy #bright #cut #deep

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#be humble #greatness #height #higher #humble

Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty. ↗

— Jefferson Davis

#humble #never

The humble and meek are thirsting for blood. ↗

— Joe Orton

#humble #meek

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#because #cannot #condition #equally #grace

Barack Obama says that we need to be humble toward terrorism. Yet he is the one we have been waiting for. That is humble? ↗

— Evan Sayet

#barack obama #be humble #been #humble #need

These are the few ways we can practice humility: To speak as little as possible of one's self. To mind one's own business. Not to want to manage other people's affairs. To avoid curiosity. To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully. To pass over the mistakes of others. To accept insults and injuries. To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked. To be kind and gentle even under provocation. Never to stand on one's dignity. To choose always the hardest. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#bossy #cheerful #curiosity #difficulty #dignity

Governor Romney has a record of tremendous accomplishments. But he never asks for accolades. He just asks, 'How can I help?' That's the mark of a true leader: A humble focus on getting the job done. ↗

— Reince Priebus

#accomplishments #asks #done #focus #getting

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#beloved #desire #god #heart #humble

The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

#heaven #highest #humblest #materials #occupation