Morality...Virtues...HUMILITY
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0821 C
“Humility makes great men twice honorable.” — Benjamin Franklin
HUMILITY, Honor, Fame
0822
“Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself.”
— Blaise Pascal
HUMILITY, Ego
0823
“Humility is a strange thing. The minute you think you’ve got it, you’ve lost it.”
— E. D. Hulse
HUMILITY, Ego, Self-Confidence, Perception
0824
“To be humble to Superiors is Duty, to Equals Courtesy, to Inferiors Nobleness.”
— Benjamin Franklin
HUMILITY, Ego
0825
“How did the great rivers and seas gain dominion over the hundred lesser streams? By being lower than they.” — Lao-Tzu
HUMILITY, Authority
0826 A
“The boughs that bear most hang lowest.” — David Garrick
HUMILITY, Sadness
0827
“Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.” — G(ilbert) K(eith) Chesterton
HUMILITY, Ego, Attitude, Perception
0828 P
“I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.”
— Confucius
HUMILITY, Fame
0829
“The most virtuous of all men is he that contents himself with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.” — Plato
HUMILITY, Ego
0830
“The light of the understanding - humility kindleth and pride covereth.” — Francis Quarles
HUMILITY, Ego, Thought, Excellence
0831 A
“The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.” — Thomas Carlyle
HUMILITY, Reward
0832 A
“Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch
and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.” — Lord Philip D. Stanhope Chesterfield
HUMILITY, Ego, Knowledge
0833 A
“True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.”
— Lord Halifax
HUMILITY, Honor
0834
“Search others for their virtues, and thyself for thy vices.” — Thomas Fuller, D.D.
HUMILITY, Thought, Love
HUMILITY Cross-References
Fame—4 • Excellence—67 •
Errors—312 • Failure—397 • Ignorance—503 •
Wisdom—577 • Vision—648 • Charity—801 •
Honor—817 • Hate—849 • Ego—908, 911, 918 •
Leadership—1140
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