HUMILITY

With all humility, I think, ''Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.'' Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing, you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might, infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Only those who feel little in the eyes of God, can hope to be mighty in the eyes of men.
Ernest Moritz Arndt

Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.
Thomas Carlyle

Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.
Vince Lombardi

Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.
Henry David Thoreau

Too much humility is pride.
German Proverbs

Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

If you would have people speak well of you, then do not speak well of yourself.
Blaise Pascal

They are proud in humility, proud that they are not proud.
Robert Burton

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
Ludwig Van Beethoven

The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.
Josh Billings

A man who is at the top is a man who has the habit of getting to the bottom.
Joseph E. Rogers

Too humble is half proud.
Yiddish Proverbs

Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.
William S. Burroughs

It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.
St. Bernard

A vulgar mind is proud in prosperity and humble in adversity. A noble mind is humble in prosperity and proud in adversity.
Ruckett

A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.
Edgar Watson Howe

Before honor is humility.
Bible

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
Charles De Gaulle

Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows.
Helen Nielsen

If you are right, take the humble side -- you will help the other fellow. If you are wrong, take the humble side -- and you will help yourself.
Source Unknown

One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. [Philippians 2:3]
Bible

Humility is the ladder to divine understanding.
Source Unknown

Be it ever so humble, there's no opinion like one's own.
Source Unknown

Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.
John (Jay) Mccloy

Those who are born on thrid base go through life thinking they just hit a triple.
Unknown

When we become aware of our humility, we've lost it.
Source Unknown

Many people believe that humility is the opposite of pride, when, in fact, it is a point of equilibrium. The opposite of pride is actually a lack of self esteem. A humble person is totally different from a person who cannot recognize and appreciate himself as part of this worlds marvels
Rabino Nilton Bonder

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.
Fulton John Sheen

What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.
Monica Baldwin

The cross is the invincible sanctuary of the humble.
Eli Cass