Top 26 Happy Humility Quotes
#1. The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization.
Charles Bass
#2. There were two bronzes, three browns, a blue and two greens.
Anne McCaffrey
#4. Learn to commend thy daily acts to God, so shall the dry every-day duties of common life be steps to heaven, and lift they heart hither.
Edward Bouverie Pusey
#5. This warm feeling of being needed, wanted, and special, like I was a treasure... was all I wanted to feel, forever.
Jennifer Lynch
#6. Love does not envy, does not boast, does not delight in evil but rejoice in truth.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#7. This is the deal: we are happy to single out people as superior just as long as they don't accept the description themselves. We want heroes and idols, but we also want egalitarianism, and that requires proclamations of humility from our gods.
Julian Baggini
#8. Coiled and personal, Laurent's gift was a Veretian whip, made of gold.
Damen recognized it.
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His gaze flung to Laurent. He knew he had flushed, he could feel the heat in his own cheeks. In front of the gathered generals, he couldn't say, What have you done?
C.S. Pacat
#9. In You Are Not Dead Wendy Xu breaks all the old rules that have never done us any favors anyway. She writes beautifully, noticing who we are, and letting us see ourselves with a little more humanity, a little more humor, a little more humility. I'm happy to have read this book.
James Tate
#10. Once I decide to take on a role it's because I find that guy to be really interesting to watch and very compelling to play. And from that point on I can no longer judge him. I can only take on his point of view in order to play him effectively. And his point of view is often not mine.
Ronald Perelman
#11. The humility of wisdom is the happy consciousness that all things come from God, are sustained by God, and exist for God. This wisdom is rooted in the pride-destroying, joy-giving cross of Christ.
John Piper
#12. Care not who is richer or more learned than thou, if none be more generous and loving.
John Lancaster Spalding
#13. O it is a happy thing to feel ourselves helpless and naught, for then the presence of God is felt to wrap us about so lovingly! Everlasting, infinite, almighty, these are the words that strengthen us with speaking them.
William Mountford
#14. Plutarch has a fine expression, with regard to some woman of learning, humility, and virtue;
that her ornaments were such as might be purchased without money, and would render any woman's life both glorious and happy.
Laurence Sterne
#15. Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yeomen!
Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head!
Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood;
Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!
William Shakespeare
#16. If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
Samuel Butler
#17. In Marrakech, Arabian open-heartedness is served up with a generous dose of pan-African mysticism, a dollop of French savoir-vivre, and a garnish of Moorish grace. The vibe is irresistible to meaning-of-life seekers and international hipsters looking for a scene.
Vivian Swift
#18. Be happy for those who are happy, have compassion towards the unhappy, and maintain equanimity towards the wicked.
Patanjali
#19. Very few people look the part and are it too.
Don Herold
#21. The actual fights themselves are very demanding. You don't want to drain yourself. But it pumps you up, gets you in the zone. It's a good way of getting you into the zone for the scene.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
#22. Prior to postmodernism, it was all but impossible to claim that one was a cultural Christian, Jew, or Muslim. There was no such thing. Now, being culturally religious is a widely accepted stance.
Gudjon Bergmann
#23. My father was a businessman. We had discussions about honesty and dishonesty.
John Cullum
#24. And in self-giving we become really happy. Real humility is the expansion of our consciousness and our service.
Sri Chinmoy
#25. I'm definitely happy with the way my career has gone, the success; but I even feel glad that I've experienced some failure in my life. That gives you perspective and humility about this business; it's good to realize that you're always just one movie away from not being in Vogue anymore.
Reese Witherspoon
#26. Let us, therefore, foresake the vanity of the crowd and their false teachings, and turn back to the word delivered to us from the beginning.
Polycarp