Real excellence and humility are
by Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Wisdom Self Ego Pride
Real Sayings
All that is real is seen with the heart.
- Vivian Greene
You cannot lose your real treasure.
- Osho
The real us is pure love, pure light
- don Miguel Ruiz
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Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
FEAR: False Evidence Appearing Real.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
What is real is beyond all reach.
- Julian Green
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
It is health that is real wealth,
and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
- Albert Einstein
Real friendships among men are so rare
that when they occur they are famous.
- Clarence Day
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion,
for the real and for the truth.
- Abraham Maslow
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
Each one has to find his peace from within.
And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill (author of the classic Think and Grow Rich)
Life is a Book of Riddles,
with the Real Lessons Writ Small in its Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Society is a masked ball,
where every one hides his real character,
and reveals it by hiding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
FEAR is an acronym in the English language
for "False Evidence Appearing Real."
- Neale Donald Walsch
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
The Book of Life is a Book of Riddles,
with its Real Lessons Writ Small in the Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The real lessons from the book of life
are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
Anyone can be passionate, but
it takes real lovers to be silly.
- Rose Franken
The mind of man is continuously unfolding
into a greater recognition of its real plan
in the creative order of the Universe.
- Ernest Holmes
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow.
The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
Everyone is a genius at least once a year;
a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg
True religion is real living;
living with all one's soul,
with all one's goodness and righteousness.
- Albert Einstein
Excellence Sayings
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)
Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
I constantly seek excellence
in all domains that truly matter to me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Excellence is not a destination to be arrived at,
but a path of continual attention and improvement.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance
and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Humility Sayings
Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie
We come nearest to the great
when we are great in humility.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born
it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
- Margaret Mead
Not Sayings
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
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