Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.
Interpretation
Humility is a strength that does not diminish one's self-worth.
In this quote, Ernest Hemingway emphasizes that humility is a valuable quality and does not equate to weakness or disgrace. Rather, it allows individuals to possess true pride that stems from their character and actions, rather than arrogance or superiority over others.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a leadership seminar to encourage leaders to embody humility.
He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on.
How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were or how it was changed or with what difficulties, or ease, it could be reached. Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it. But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy.
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.
Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be cast down. The strong are not always vigorous, the wise not always ready, the brave not always courageous, and the joyous not always happy.
That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.
Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.
With knowledge there is no hope,... without hope I would sit motionless, rusting like unused armor.
The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.
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