Humility Is Necessary Quotes

#1. A great deal of humility is necessary in the process of self-discovery. Humility is the ability to accept what and who you are at this moment.

Frederick Lenz

#2. Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.

Marvin Olasky

#3. Without the necessary humility to worship, I subconsciously desired to be worshiped, not in a crazy Napoleanic manner, but like a modern-day celebrity.

Tarek Saab

#4. He [Lyndon Johnson] hated the war. He hated having anybody put in harm away. But he believed that what we were doing is what we had to do for our commitments with SEATO, for many reasons. And he was carrying forth a policy that he had inherited. And he tried and got us to the peace table in 1968.

Lynda Bird Johnson Robb

#5. Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.

William Gurnall

#6. I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don't inflict harm where it's not necessary.

Michael J. Fox

#7. In learning to pay respectful attention to one another and plants and animals, we relearn the acts of empathy, and thus humility and compassion - ways of proceeding that grow more and more necessary as the world crowds in.

William Kittredge

#8. When given a choice, choose the thing that scares you a little. If it's 100% safe, it is holding you back.

Jeff Atwood

#9. Teach her never to universalize her own standards or experiences. Teach her that her standards are for her alone, and not for other people. This is the only necessary form of humility: the realization that difference is normal. Tell

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#10. Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery.

Terry Pratchett

#11. You know, there's chronological age, there's biological age, and there's psychological age. Chronological age, there's nothing you can do about, which is I'm 52. You set that number aside.

Cheryl Tiegs

#12. If you're interested, you will do what is convenient; if you're committed, you'll do whatever it takes.

John Assaraf

#13. Humility, and the most patient perseverance, seem almost as necessary in gardening as rain and sunshine, and every failure must be used as a stepping-stone to something better.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#14. Define excellence vividly, quantitatively. Paint a picture for your most talented employees of what excellence looks like. Keep everyone pushing and pushing toward the right-hand edge of the bell curve.

Marcus Buckingham

#15. Is suffering really necessary?
Yes and no.
If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion.

Eckhart Tolle

#16. Self knowledge puts us on our knees, and it is very necessary for love. For knowledge of God gives love, and knowledge of self gives humility

Mother Teresa

#17. I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.

Helen Keller

#18. Humility and repentance are necessary to restore your relationship with God.

Jim George

#19. To nurture your career, it makes sense to cultivate your strengths. To nurture your moral core, it is necessary to confront your weaknesses.

David Brooks

#20. Earth will be safe when we feel in us enough safety.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#21. It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.

Rachel Carson

#22. Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy, but emulation, or laudable ambition, is actually founded in humility; for it evidently implies that we have a low opinion of our present attainments, and think it necessary to be advanced.

Joseph Hall

#23. Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us.

Carolyn Heilbrun

#24. things is certain that whatever men say or do against him will always turn to his advantage. - ST. VINCENT DE PAUL.

Various

#25. History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of greatness.

Vincent Massey

#26. Believing God isn't a book, however. It's not a Bible study either. It's a lifestyle.

Beth Moore

#27. If you love somebody then tell them how you feel dont be scared of their reaction or rejection life is too short. you should take a chance and if things dont work out as you plan dont worry cuz life moves on and true love will be waiting for you again.

Atul Purohit

#28. We [England] have become all Billy Big Time and become too big for our boots, and yet we have got nothing to shout about

Terry Butcher

#29. His director told him, as material food was necessary for the body life, spiritual food is necessary for spiritual life. This was result of his consciousness of humility, certainty that whatever he had to do was right.

Leo Tolstoy

#30. Flip a coin. Life or death. Heads or tails. You never know.

Laurie Nadel

#31. I kind of blossomed backwards. I got cancer, fell in love and have a magical life. I never imagined it would happen that way, but you just go with the flow, right?

Kris Carr

#32. History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize their ignorance as a political or religious dogma

Aldous Huxley

#33. Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.

Benjamin Franklin