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Humility
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Quiet strength. Lasting impact.
Humility is the honest and accurate assessment of oneself, recognizing both strengths and weaknesses without arrogance or self-deprecation. It is the bedrock of meaningful connection and growth, allowing us to learn from others, acknowledge our limitations, and approach the world with openness and respect, fostering genuine understanding and continuous improvement.
# Humility & Virtues
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Context: • Humble things become the humble.
• Horace, Epistles, I, 7, 44.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922):
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 380-81.)
• Horace, Epistles, I, 7, 44.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922):
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 380-81.)
“Parvum parva decent.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Give place to your betters.
• Terence, Phormio, III. 2. 37.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922):
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 380-81.)
• Terence, Phormio, III. 2. 37.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922):
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 380-81.)
“Da locum melioribus.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Michel de Montaigne, Of Presumption, Book II, Chapter XVII.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922):
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 380-81.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922):
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 380-81.)
“One may be humble out of pride.”
— Unknown
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Context: • J. M. Barrie, The Little Minister, Chapter 3 (1891), as quoted in Benham, Sir William Gurney, , ed. (1907), Cassell's Book of Quotations, Proverbs and Household Words, page: 18
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (B)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (B)
“Life is a long lesson in humility.”
— Unknown
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Context: • J. E. Casely Hayford, (1911), Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation page: 55, publisher: C.M. Phillips
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (H)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (H)
“Humility becometh well the triumphant.”
— Unknown
More Quotes
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Context: • Humble things become the humble.
• Horace, Epistles, I, 7, 44.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922):
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 380-81.)
• Horace, Epistles, I, 7, 44.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922):
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 380-81.)
“Parvum parva decent.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Give place to your betters.
• Terence, Phormio, III. 2. 37.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922):
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 380-81.)
• Terence, Phormio, III. 2. 37.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922):
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 380-81.)
“Da locum melioribus.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Michel de Montaigne, Of Presumption, Book II, Chapter XVII.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922):
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 380-81.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922):
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 380-81.)
“One may be humble out of pride.”
— Unknown
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Context: • J. M. Barrie, The Little Minister, Chapter 3 (1891), as quoted in Benham, Sir William Gurney, , ed. (1907), Cassell's Book of Quotations, Proverbs and Household Words, page: 18
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (B)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (B)
“Life is a long lesson in humility.”
— Unknown
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Context: • J. E. Casely Hayford, (1911), Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation page: 55, publisher: C.M. Phillips
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (H)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (H)
“Humility becometh well the triumphant.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Daniel O. Griffin, (November 25, 2023), "TWiV 1064: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin", MicrobeTV, YouTube (quote at 31:58 of 52:54)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (G)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (G)
“Science is really an exercise in humility.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Books of Kings, popularized by Confucius, quoted by Israel Smith Clare, Library of Universal History, p. 539.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (C)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (C)
“Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Sanu Sharma
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (S)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (S)
“Those who can bend need not be taught how to stand tall.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Sumerian proverb, Collection IX at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, 3rd millennium BCE.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (S)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (S)
“Who can compare with humility? -- It is set in goodness.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Philip Massinger, Duke of Milan (1623), Act I, scene ii.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (M)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (M)
“Be wise;
Soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.”
— Unknown
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Context: • James Montgomery, Humility.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922):
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 380-81.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922):
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 380-81.)
“Fairest and best adorned is she
Whose clothing is humility.”
— Unknown
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Context: • James Montgomery, Humility.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922):
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 380-81.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922):
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 380-81.)
“Nearest the throne itself must be
The footstool of humility.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Harry Emerson Fosdick, On Being a Real Person (1943); a similar statement has become attributed to Benjamin Franklin, but apparently only in recent decades: "A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle." This seems to have been first attributed to Franklin in The New Age Magazine Vol. 66 (1958), and the earliest appearance of it yet located is in Coronet magazine, Vol. 34 (1953), p. 27, where it was attributed to a Louise Stein.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (F)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (F)
“At very best, a person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Solomon, Proverbs 22:4.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (Bible:
The Bible on Wikisource.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (Bible:
The Bible on Wikisource.)
“By humility, and the fear of the Lord, are riches, honor, and life.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Aisha, Collected by Ibn Abee Shaybah (13/360) Ibn Hajr graded this Athar as being Saheeh.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (A)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (A)
“People are paying no attention to the best act of worship: Humility.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Charles Spurgeon, Gleanings Among the Sheaves, The Right Estimate.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922):
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 380-81.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922):
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 380-81.)
“The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.”
— Unknown
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Context: • La Combe, p. 329.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895):
Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert's Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895):
Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert's Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).)
“The more we learn what humility is, the less we discover in ourselves.”
— Unknown
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“Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1911).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (B)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (B)
“MEEKNESS, n. Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Thomas Moore, p. 328.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895):
Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert's Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Humility" (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895):
Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert's Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).)
“Humility, that low, sweet root,
From which all heavenly virtues shoot.”
— Unknown
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