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Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Generosity Quotes

Quotes About Generosity
  • Generosity is a quality that many men admire. But if a prince develops a reputation for generosity, he will ruin his state. A reputation for generosity requires outward lavishness, which eventually depletes all of the prince’s resources. In the end, the prince will be forced to burden his people with excessive taxes in order to raise the money to maintain his reputation for generosity. Ultimately, the prince’s liberality will make the people despise and resent him. ~Niccolò Machiavelli
  • Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting. --PRINCESS ELIZABETH ASQUITH BIBESCO
  • Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. --Khalil Gibran
  • Generosity is a function of the heart, not the wallet. --Wayne Dyer
  • Generosity is doing something for someone else and expecting nothing in return.


Putting People First | MWM
The Power Of Generosity = Be generous, especially in times of challenge. Generosity isn’t just about giving money—it’s about putting people first, even when it costs you. True generosity multiplies. What a leader gives away in trust, time, or care always returns in greater measure.




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A Generous Mindset Can Bring You Lots of Joy = Generous people are normally very, very fulfilled. If you have been blessed, the best way to take those blessings is to turn them around and pass them on to others. Selfish people are often unhappy, but unselfish, generous people are always fulfilled and happy. Generous people are serving and living for others. By having an abundance and generous mindset, others will be attracted to you because you put others first.





Comparison Kills Generosity | MWM
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Give Others What You Value = There is no higher level of living than giving without expecting anything in return. People who embody generosity experience incredible freedom and happiness. Comparison kills generosity. The measure of your generosity is based on what you have, not what you give. Don’t let possessions take charge of your mind. If you are enslaved to greed, you cannot lead. 



A Person Who Gives is a Person Who’s Fulfilled
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Be Happy, Be Generous! = The happiest people in the world are generous. People who give are fulfilled. We were created to help one another and to share. When we act out who we are supposed to be, it gives us a sense of fulfillment in following that purpose. Give more to the people you see today!


The Impact of Generosity | MWM
Be Generous, Give Back What You Earn = Be generous with your money. As you are building your life and businesses, always strive to have three sources of income. And then give back what you can financially to others. Being generous with your money allows you to serve others and help those you otherwise wouldn't have been able to help. You can't give what you don't have, and once you earn more, pass it on. 
The Impact Of Generosity = Because of generosity, you can have—or give—the ability and resources to others to do things they wouldn't otherwise be able to do.



Generosity Gives Back To All = By living a generous life, you set aside time and resources to give to others. This practice will not only benefit others, but also benefit you. Based on the practice of tithing, you give 10% of what you have back to God. You need to have an open hand in life in order to give more and accept more in life, giving what you have where it is needed most.

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Generosity is an attitude = Generosity doesn’t have anything to do with blessings or money, it is an attitude. There are people who have very little, but are always sharing what they have with others. There are others who have a lot, but hold on tightly to what is theirs. What kind of person are you? Are you a generous person, opening yourself to receive more?
Generosity Is A Mindset = Generosity isn't about money, it's an attitude. Generosity is the idea that if you keep what you have, you can't have more. But If you open yourself up to give more, you can also receive more.


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A person that owns their money, instead of their money owning them. No matter how much you have, pass along a little bit of wisdom or wealth to help others succeed.





Become a river... allow others to share the greatness with you. Be a giver, it will be your greatest joy, no matter how little or how much you have!



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Acts 2:46 NLT - 46 They worshiped together at the Temple each day, met in homes for the Lord's Supper, and shared their meals with great joy and generosity--
2 Corinthians 8:2 NLT - 2 They are being tested by many troubles, and they are very poor. But they are also filled with abundant joy, which has overflowed in rich generosity.
2 Corinthians 9:10, 13 NLT - 10 For God is the one who provides seed for the farmer and then bread to eat. In the same way, he will provide and increase your resources and then produce a great harvest of generosity in you. ... 13 As a result of your ministry, they will give glory to God. For your generosity to them and to all believers will prove that you are obedient to the Good News of Christ.
Ephesians 4:7 NLT - 7 However, he has given each one of us a special gift through the generosity of Christ.
Philemon 1:6 NLT - 6 And I am praying that you will put into action the generosity that comes from your faith as you understand and experience all the good things we have in Christ.
Isaiah 32:8 (NLT) But generous people plan to do what is generous, and they stand firm in their generosity.
Romans 12:8 The one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.
Matthew 20:15 Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?’
Ephesians 1:7 In Him we have redemption [that is, our deliverance and salvation] through His blood, [which paid the penalty for our sin and resulted in] the forgiveness and complete pardon of our sin, in accordance with the riches of His grace
2 Corinthians 8:9 For you are recognizing [more clearly] the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [His astonishing kindness, His generosity, His gracious favor], that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that by His poverty you might become rich (abundantly blessed).
2 Corinthians 9:11 You will be enriched in every way for all generosity, which produces thanksgiving to God through us.
Romans 5:15 But God's free gift immeasurably outweighs the transgression. For if through the transgression of the one individual the mass of mankind have died, infinitely greater is the generosity with which God's grace, and the gift given in His grace which found expression in the one man Jesus Christ, have been bestowed on the mass of mankind.
2 Corinthians 9:13 They will glorify God for your obedience to the confession of the gospel of Christ, and for your generosity in sharing with them and with others through the proof provided by this service.
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Tuesday, May 07, 2024

Happiness Quotes

Quotes About Happiness 

 

  • A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. Hugh Downs
  • A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down. Beverly Sills (1929~) American Opera Singer
  • Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are who already possess it. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • Create the kind of self you will be happy to live with all your life. Foster C. McClellan
  • Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.
  • Eat a live toad in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the day. 
  • Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. --STORM JAMESON
  • Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
  • Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will evade you, but if you notice the other things around you, it will gently come and sit on your shoulder. --HENRY DAVID THOREAU
  • Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. --FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
  • Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. --FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
  • Happiness comes through doors you didn't even know you left open. 
  • Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and love what you are doing. Brian Tracy
  • Happiness depends solely upon your own attitude. 
  • Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. --NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
  • Happiness is a healthy mental attitude, a grateful spirit, a clear conscience, and a heart full of love.
  • Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson (submitted by Jillin2001)
  • Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation. William H. Sheldon
  • Happiness is good health and a bad memory. Ingrid Bergman
  • Happiness is natural; joy is spiritual Kenny Martin
  • Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life. Burton Hills
  • Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. Samuel Johnson
  • Happiness is what you are, not what you have. 
  • He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. Johann von Goethe
  • I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose. Epictetus
  • I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstances but by our disposition. Martha Washington
  • I am happy and content because I think I am. Alain-Rene Lesage
  • I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. Martha Washington (1732 - 1802)
  • If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God? Blaise Pascal
  • If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. --ORSON WELLES
  • I'm not one who feels that you have to be brave to be a star, but that your life can be satisfying and happy if you work to make a difference. The point is to make a difference by the way you live your life. Esther Peterson (1906-1997) Labor advocate and presidential advisor
  • It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  • It isn't your position that makes you happy or unhappy, it's your disposition.
  • It's not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. - Charles Spurgeon
  • Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust
  • Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
  • No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change. Barbara DeAngelis
  • Not the owner of many possessions will you be right to call happy: he more rightly deserves the name of happy who knows how to use the Gods' gifts wisely and to put up with rough poverty, and who fears dishonor more than death. Horace (65-8 BC) Roman Poet
  • People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older. Sydney J. Harris
  • Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
  • Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think. --DALE CARNEGIE
  • Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness. Gustave Le Bon
  • Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. Oscar Wilde
  • Some pursue happiness - others create it. 
  • Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. Dr. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) Medical missionary and Nobel Peace Prize Winner
  • The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. - Henry Ward Beecher
  • The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790); American statesman and scientist
  • The gift of happiness belongs to those who unwrap it. Andrew Dunbar
  • The happiest couples are those who spell "us" with a capital "you." Klare Provine
  • The happiest people are less forgetting and more forgiving. Anonymous
  • The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live. --BERTRAND RUSSELL
  • The more importance that is placed on possessions in the pursuit of happiness, The more distance there is placed between happiness and the pursuer!
  • The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. CP Snow
  • The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief. --JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
  • The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it - every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have. John D. Rockefeller III
  • The strength and happiness of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going, and going that way too. Henry Ward Beecher
  • The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself. Victor Hugo
  • The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. --WILLIAM MORRIS
  • The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. Benjamin Franklin
  • The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. --MARCUS AURELIUS
  • There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage. --LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA
  • Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Joseph Addison
  • To describe happiness is to diminish it. Henri Stendhal
  • True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. --ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
  • True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer
  • True happiness may be sought, thought, or caught, but never bought.
  • We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. Charles Kingsley
  • We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it. Robert Urich
  • We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same. Carlos Castaneda
  • We know nothing of tomorrow; our business is to be good and happy today. Sydney Smith
  • We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff. Dean Stanley
  • What happens if you're scared half to death TWICE? Woody Paige
  • When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed. Mother Teresa
  • When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. Helen Keller
  • When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy. Samuel Goldwyn
  • When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness. Malcolm Forbes
  • You can be happy no matter what your circumstances might be. 
  • You can never get happy. You can always be happy. 
  • Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable. --Alexander the Great
  • Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. --Abraham Lincoln
  • I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing. --William James
  • Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. --Carl Jung
  • The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. --Mark Twain
  • It is a happy talent to know how to play. --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
  • Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. --Abraham Lincoln

 


Anne Frank’s legacy of unshakeable hope gives great weight to this quote, which she wrote in her diary while enduring the horrors faced by Jewish families during the Holocaust. Entries Frank wrote while in hiding prove the young girl understood the infectious quality of happiness, and the importance of spreading joy during times of suffering.



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It’s Not What Happens TO You; It’s What Happens IN You | MWM
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Have A Positive Attitude = Attitude is everything. It is important to have a great attitude about yourself, other people, and life. It isn’t what happens to you, but what happens in you. If you can find the bright side of things in tough situations, keeping a positive attitude, you will be capable of happiness in any circumstance.
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Happiness is Not About What Happens TO Us, But IN Us
Have A Great Attitude = Attitude is everything. It is important to have a great attitude about yourself, other people, and life. It isn’t what happens to you, but what happens in you. If you can find the bright side of things in tough situations, keeping a positive attitude, you will be capable of happiness in any circumstance.
Happiness Is Not About What Happens To Us, But In Us = Have a great attitude about yourself and life. It's not what happens to you, it's what happens in you. If you have a great attitude about life and yourself, then you can be happy.

Seek Happiness, Find Disappointment; Seek Value, Find Happiness
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Seek Value = True happiness comes from a deep inner satisfaction and knowledge that we are good people with good values, doing our best to make a difference in life. That is a happiness that doesn’t leave when the mood changes. If you seek happiness, it will often disappoint or disappear … But if you seek value, by adding value to people and making a positive difference, happiness will come to you.


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An Important Choice = Happiness starts with you. That's the key! You have the choice to decide how you will start each day, interact with those around you, and most importantly be for yourself. 




Happiness Is an Inside Job = Happiness cannot be acquired. Often, people set out to pursue happiness in a spouse, a friend, a job, a family, a home, a title or a whole lot of money. But happiness isn’t “out there.” Happiness starts inside of you. It is a gift you can give to yourself.

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Deuteronomy 24:5 NLT - 5 "A newly married man must not be drafted into the army or be given any other official responsibilities. He must be free to spend one year at home, bringing happiness to the wife he has married.
Psalm 86:4 NLT - 4 Give me happiness, O Lord, for I give myself to you.
Proverbs 10:28 NLT - 28 The hopes of the godly result in happiness, but the expectations of the wicked come to nothing.
Ecclesiastes 2:3 NLT - 3 After much thought, I decided to cheer myself with wine. And while still seeking wisdom, I clutched at foolishness. In this way, I tried to experience the only happiness most people find during their brief life in this world.
Ecclesiastes 5:10 NLT - 10 Those who love money will never have enough. How meaningless to think that wealth brings true happiness!
Ecclesiastes 8:15 NLT - 15 So I recommend having fun, because there is nothing better for people in this world than to eat, drink, and enjoy life. That way they will experience some happiness along with all the hard work God gives them under the sun.
Luke 6:24 NLT - 24 "What sorrow awaits you who are rich, for you have your only happiness now.
Luke 12:32 NLT - 32 "So don't be afraid, little flock. For it gives your Father great happiness to give you the Kingdom.
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Monday, May 06, 2024

Loneliness Quotes

Quotes About Loneliness 

  • Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they’ve got to come. You can’t force them. --D. H. Lawrence
  • I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself master of my own loneliness there will be peace or safety: and perhaps these are the same. --Martha Gellhorn, writer
  • I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being. --Hafiz, Persian poet
  • Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better. --Henry Rollins
  • Loneliness is equal to the radius of one’s awareness. --Yoko Ono
  • Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. --Bruce Lee
  • Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. --Janet Fitch, author
  • Many people need desperately to receive this message: “I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.” --Kurt Vonnegut
  • Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. –Maya Angelou
  • People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. --Joseph Fort Newton, Baptist minister
  • Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star. --Charlotte Brontë
  • That little-discussed subject — loneliness. That is a great taboo, isn't it? No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life. --Bill Murray
  • We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community. –Dorothy Day, journalist and social activist
  • When I get lonely these days, I think: So be lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. --Elizabeth Gilbert, author
  • When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. --Tennessee Williams
  • You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. --A.A. Milne, “Winnie-the-Pooh”






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Psalm 25:16 NIV - 16 Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted.
Psalm 68:6 NIV - 6 God sets the lonely in families, he leads out the prisoners with singing; but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.
Mark 1:45 NIV - 45 Instead he went out and began to talk freely, spreading the news. As a result, Jesus could no longer enter a town openly but stayed outside in lonely places. Yet the people still came to him from everywhere.
Luke 5:16 NIV - 16 But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.
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Friday, May 03, 2024

Impact Quotes

Quotes About Impact 


  • The Gospel is a universal language that crosses the barriers of time to impact the lives of ordinary people. Michelle Jones 
  • You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee. John Holcomb 
  • The sermons that have the biggest impact on us are those that we preach to ourselves on between the lines of whatever is being said from. The pulpit. Frederick Buechner
  • If you want to achieve widespread impact and lasting value, be bold. Howard Schultz






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Make A Positive Impact = When we think of impact, it is a word that carries with it something that makes a deep impression on us - whether it is someone we met or an experience we had. We often question if we are making a positive or negative impact on others. Make a positive impression. Walk into people's lives and be so clear in adding value to them that you make an impact on their lives.


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Identify And Act On Opportunities = Each of us has the power to make a difference. Your leadership is about influence and impact. Every interaction is an opportunity to create positive change. Where can you make the most significant difference in your circle of influence?





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Impact Others With Value = An impact is something that makes a big impression on us. You can make a positive impact by clearly adding value to others. Do you have a positive impact on others? How can you make a positive impact on those you will be around today?

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Practice Good Values = John Maxwell considers his book, Change Your World, to be in his top 5! Watch as John discusses the inspiration behind the book and the transformational experience where John and his team helped people in other countries engage and practice good values. 
When people learn to live good values they become more valuable to themselves and others. Change Your World is a life-changing, transformational book.



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The Result of Making a Difference = When is the last time you made a positive impact on someone's life? John encourages you to look at your next few hours and think about how you can make an impact on those you interact with today!



More than the Average Expectation = Do Something - Say Something - Be Something, all while making a difference in someone's life. 



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Hebrews 13:7 ISV Remember your leaders, those who have spoken God's word to you. Think about the impact of their lives, and imitate their faith.
Matthew 5:13-16 ESV “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet. “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
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Friday, March 29, 2024

Humility Quotes

Quotes About Humility



  • A great man is always willing to be little. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Be thankful for all the struggles you go through. They make you stronger, wiser, and humble. Don't let it break you let it make you.
  • Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are. --RUDYARD KIPLING
  • Humility and self-restraint is the True Objective of Kenpo. --Ed Parker
  • Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers. --SWAMI SIVANANDA
  • Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less. --C. S. Lewis
  • Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. --Rick Warren
  • Humility is royalty without a crown. --Spencer W. Kimball
  • Humility is the Christian's greatest honor; the higher men climb, the farther they are from heaven.  Burder
  • Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues, hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance. --Augustine of Hippo
  • Life is a long lesson in humility. --James M. Barrie
  • Pride makes us artificial, and humility makes us real. --Thomas Merton
  • Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon. --ALEXANDER POPE
  • The great thing about knowing you're wrong is the moment you realize it, you're right.
  • The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk. --CICERO
  • The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility. --Thomas S. Monson
  • When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you. --WALTER PAYTON
  • With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings. --Ezra Taft Benson
  • You can't expect a person to see eye to eye with you when you're looking down on him.
  • Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble. --JOHN MADDEN
  • The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk. --Cicero






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Acknowledge Your Humanity = John Maxwell’s new book, High Road Leadership, discusses how it is important to acknowledge our humanity. High-road leaders do this by not only accepting what they do well, but also what they don’t do well—where they are lacking. When you are in touch with yourself, and acknowledge your humanness, you are able to love people, acknowledge their humanity, and appreciate them without judgment.
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the quality of not being proud because you are aware of your bad qualities:

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1 Peter 5:5 - Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
Colossians 3:12 - Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Ephesians 4:2 - with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
James 4:10 ESV Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
James 4:6 ESV But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
Micah 6:8 ESV He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Philippians 2:3 - Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Philippians 2:5 You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had.
Proverbs 11:2 ESV When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.
Proverbs 15:33 (MSG) Fear-of- God is a school in skilled living— first you learn humility, then you experience glory.
Proverbs 18:12 (MSG) Pride first, then the crash, but humility is precursor to honor.
Proverbs 22:4 (MSG) The payoff for meekness and Fear-of- God is plenty and honor and a satisfying life.
Proverbs 22:4 ESV The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life.
Proverbs 22:4 Humility is the fear of the Lord; its wages are riches and honor and life.
Proverbs 29:23 (MSG) Pride lands you flat on your face; humility prepares you for honors.
Psalm 25:9 ESV He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way.
Romans 12:3 (MSG) I’m speaking to you out of deep gratitude for all that God has given me, and especially as I have responsibilities in relation to you. Living then, as every one of you does, in pure grace, it’s important that you not misinterpret yourselves as people who are bringing this goodness to God. No, God brings it all to you. The only accurate way to understand ourselves is by what God is and by what he does for us, not by what we are and what we do for him.
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