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Quotes About Humility

For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.
~ A.A. Milne
Hallo, Pooh," said Rabbit. "Hallo, Rabbit," said Pooh dreamily. "Did you make that song up?" "Well, I sort of made it up," said Pooh. "It isn't Brain," he went on humbly, "because You Know Why, Rabbit; but it comes to me sometimes." "Ah!" said Rabbit, who never let things come to him, but always went and fetched them.
~ A.A. Milne
Are you prepared to have quite obvious things explained to you, to ask futile questions, to give me chances of scoring off you, to make brilliant discoveries of your own two or three days after I have made them myself all that kind of thing?
~ A.A. Milne
And if anyone knows anything about anything," said Bear to himself, "it's Owl who knows something about something," he said, "or my name's not Winnie-the-Pooh," he said. "Which it is," he added. "So there you are." Owl
~ A.A. Milne
Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain." "I know," said Pooh humbly.
~ A.A. Milne
Man in his usual perversity turns the footstool into a throne from whence he would feign direct the Almighty as to what He ought to do, giving the onlooker the impression that if God had half the compassion that those who pray (?) have, all would quickly be right
~ A.W. Pink
Kimseden daha iyi olmad???n?z? anlayacak kadar mutevaz?, herkesten farkl? oldu?unuzu kavrayacak kadar bilge olun.
~ ?bn Rü?d
It is good to feel small beneath the sparkling northern lights, small beside the mighty river. Nature is so close to us up here. My troubles and difficulties just shrivel up. I like being insignificant.
~ Ã…sa Larsson
It is easier to give than to receive, is that it? Pride is a sin, Father
~ Ágota Kristóf
My name's Munzer not God.
~ Aaron J. Munzer
When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.
~ Aaron McGruder
By and large, the mission of any ghost is to offer humility. They point out what's important by mocking what is not. (Joshua Malina, Sports Night)
~ Aaron Sorkin
Six Lines I know that in this world no one needs me, me, a word-beggar in the Jewish graveyard Who needs a poem, especially in Yiddish? Only what is hopeless on this earth has beauty and only the ephemeral is godly and humility is the only true rebellion
~ Aaron Zeitlin
Même si tu te trouves en position de force, ne le montre pas, et surtout ne t'en sers jamais!! Le fait d'avoir l'autorité ultime et la responsabilité directe de l'accès à une source d'eau ou à une rivière, ne t'autorise pas à priver les autres d'eau.
~ Abderrahman Hassi
I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.
~ Abdul Qadeer Khan
Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.
~ Aberjhani
Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
~ Abraham Cahan
Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
~ Abraham Cahan
This only grant me, that my means may lieToo low for envy, for contempt too high.
~ Abraham Cowley
We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Prayer begins where our power ends.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
When God says to me, "obey," then I humbly bow my head, without compromising in the least my personal dignity, as a man.
~ Abraham Kuyper
With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right
~ Abraham Lincoln