humility

No need to discount yourself in order to achieve humility;
neither can you attain humility by overestimating what you are.
Humility is your correct weight; no more, no less.

Fred van Amburgh

One major difference between our people and those of the dominant society
today is humility.  Among our people, no matter how far or how high a person
goes, they know they are small in the presence of God and the universe.

Lincoln Tritt

Discount the one who immediately starts out
to tell you all about his or her accomplishments or achievements.
If they are good and lasting, others will tell you about them.
The big person does not have to brag.  The little person thinks he or she must.

Fred van Amburgh

John Mason

It is not a 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

the Cure d'Ars

People often exult the defeat of another forgetting that, some other time,
their own defeat will be the cause of jubilation for others.  So, humility
in all the conditions of life is the way to enjoy peace.

Papa Ramdas

Humility is the highest of all virtues.  You can destroy your egotism
by developing this virtue alone.  You can influence people.
You can become a magnet to attract the world.
It must be genuine.  Feigned humility is hypocrisy.

Robert Collier

God can do great things through the person
who doesn't care who gets the credit.

Robert Schuller

Teresa of Avila

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Those who humble themselves shall be saved;
those who bend shall be made straight;
those who empty themselves shall be filled.

Lao-Tzu

There is but one road to lead to God--humility; all other ways would only
lead astray, even were they fenced in with all virtues.

Nicholas Boileau

True humility is intelligent self-respect which keeps us from thinking
too highly or too meanly of ourselves.  It makes us mindful
of the nobility God meant us to have.  Yet it makes us modest by
reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

Ralph W. Sockman

Practice radical humility when it comes to your own accomplishments,
and give credit everywhere except to your ego.

Wayne Dyer

I believe that the first test of a truly great person is one's humility.
I do not mean by humility, doubt of one's own powers.  But really
great people have a curious feeling that the greatness is not in them
but through them.  And they see something divine in every other person.

John Ruskin

Be humble and you will remain entire.  Sages do not display themselves,
therefore they shine.  They do not approve themselves, therefore
they are noted.  They do not praise themselves, therefore they
have merit.  They do not glory in themselves, therefore they excel.

Lao-tzu