Quotes on Humbleness

The criteria for architecture after the tsunami is humbleness

Humbleness, forgiveness, clarity and love are the dynamics of freedom. They are the foundations of authentic power.

A warrior takes his lot, whatever it may be, and accepts it in ultimate humbleness. He accepts in humbleness what he is, not as a grounds for regret but as a living challenge.

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.

The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

A great man is always willing to be little.

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

The rains of Life's Blessings cannot gather on mountaintops of pride, but flow easily into valleys of humbleness.

The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

You come to the master only in deep humbleness, because learning is possible only in humbleness. You have come to surrender, not to perform, not to manipulate, not to impress.