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Reverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and hearing the good Dhamma, this is the best good luck.
If you really have humility when you love, there is only one thought: "What can I do for my beloved?"
Accept that you are that - you are the matchless, eternal reality. That's true seeing, true humility.
...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.
Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.
If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.
The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love.
Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you.
God created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.
Real humility does not depress you, but allows you to call intensely and brings us closer to Krishna.
Sometimes we shrink from leadership because our pride makes us afraid of failure. That's not humility.
It is only with total humility, and in absolute stillness of mind that we can know what indeed we are.
If God had wanted us to talk more than listen, he would have given us two mouths rather than two ears.
It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.
The balance between confidence and humility is best learned through extensive experience and mistakes.
Let us show great humility towards the peoples we wish to help, for we have very little to teach them.
As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.
Humility is knowing that you can get an answer from anybody: be it a child, another person, or nature.
I see in Nature a magnificent structure... that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility.
What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.
Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.
True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.
There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.
Humor, humility, and, of course, honesty, all are qualities that work in public and cultural diplomacy.
Humility has to do with trying to be a vessel of purposes you're content to understand as not your own.
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
Humility is an ornament which attracts Krishna's heart. Beginning of all knowledge comes from humility.
Humility can give everything to God. Everything comes from the source, everything returns to the source.
Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul.
I think I've certainly learned a lot of lessons in humility and continue to work on that part of myself.
In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.
Humility is the most important quality in the spiritual life. When it is lacking spiritual growth stops.
Real humility is something that no one else will see. No one will know about your humility, if it's real.
A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
Education has to cultivate humility and discipline, but today it is yielding a harvest of pride and envy.
Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.
One does have to learn to travel with a degree of humility and that reflected in writing and personality.
Humility takes a supply of supernatural strength that comes only to those strong enough to admit weakness
It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)
Great leaders don't need to act tough. Their confidence and humility serve to underscore their toughness.
We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves.
I must play my role, great or small - that is humility, without self-importance, without self-indulgence.
Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness.
I like the humility that comes from being hated. Hopefully some humility and compassion comes out of that.
A man's potential for God lies not in his ability, nor in his opportunity, but in his humility before God.
Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.
Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.
Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.