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We come nearest to the great
when we are great in humility.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Related topics: Inspirational Values
Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie
I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize.
The first is gentleness;
the second is frugality;
the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others.
Be gentle and you can be bold;
be frugal and you can be generous;
avoid putting yourself before others
and you can become a leader among men.
- Lao Tzu
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
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Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born
it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
- Margaret Mead
I claim to be a simple individual liable
to err like any other fellow mortal.
I own, however, that I have humility enough
to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The great gift of Easter is hope -
Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God,
in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love,
which nothing can shake.
- Basil C. Hume
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Lao Tzu
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau
"Mother Teresa Prayer"
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you
of selfish, ulterior motives;
... Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
... Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
... Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
... Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
... Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
... Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
... Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
We can do no great things - only small things with great love.
- although commonly attributed to Mother Teresa,
who kept a copy of this prayer on
the wall of her Calcutta orphanage,
this prayer was actually written by Kent Keith.
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
The Two Great Lessons of Life: Choose Love & Trust God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is a great future in front of you,
you can leave your past behind.
- Joel Osteen
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill
To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
You have to be an original individual;
you have to find your innermost core on your own,
with no guide, no guiding scriptures.
It is a dark night, but with the intense fire of inquiry
you are bound to come to the sunrise.
Everybody who has burned with intense inquiry
has found the sunrise.
Others only believe.
Those who believe are not religious,
they are simply avoiding the great adventure
of religion by believing.
- Osho
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
If you doubt the virtue in self-honor,
remember what the flight attendant says,
"Put your own oxygen mask on first."
You are of no use to anyone else
if you have not taken care of your own needs first -
this includes your own emotional,
as well as physical, well-being.
In addition, your greatest value to your children,
your family, your friends, and your community
is the example you set, leading a great life that inspires
those around you to emulate your being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard
Faith is the great affirmative power that
says "yes" to the infinite goodness of life -
regardless of appearances. We all have within us
the potential for mountain-moving faith,
but we must take the steps necessary to activate it.
- Mary Omwake
We are all connected in the great Circle of Life.
- the movie The Lion King
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence.
Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.
Perhaps the action you take will be successful;
perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow.
But any action is better than no action at all.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans
Know that the essence of life is not
in the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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