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«Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you.»
«Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.»
Author: Rick Warren
| About:
Humility
«Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.»
«As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.»
«Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.»
«Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad.»
«Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself.»
«Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Christianity,
Country,
Doctrine,
Forgiveness,
Humility,
Love,
Punishment,
Violence,
War
| Keywords:
doctrine, haughtiness, incompatible
«Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Humility,
Opposites
| Keywords:
extremes, naughtiness
«Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially he whose name is a burden to him, who has need of an asylum (room).»
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