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Sagt av |
| Den som är ödmjuk, vet det inte själv. | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) |
| Det är inte lätt att vara ödmjuk när man är så stor som jag. | Muhammad Ali (1942-) |
| En gång förra säsongen var jag ödmjuk i ungefär fjorton dagar, men ingen lade märke till det. | John Carew |
| Jag är mer ödmjuk än vad min talang kräver. | Oscar Levant (1906-1972) |
| Man bör böja sig i stoftet när man har begått ett fel - men man bör inte bli kvar där. | François René de Chateaubriand (1776-1848) |
| Om jag bara hade varit lite ödmjuk, skulle jag vara perfekt | Ted Turner (1938-) |
| Om jag bara vore lite ödmjuk skulle jag vara fullkomlig. | Ted Turner (1938-) |
| Om jag hade lite ödmjukhet vore jag perfekt. | Ted Turner (1938-) |
| Ödmjukhet är en bomb utan lunta. | Wolfgang Herbst |
| There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. | Alfred Austin (1835-1913) |
| Humility is pride in God | Austin O'Malley |
| Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life. | George Arliss (1868-1946) |
| Humility is like underwear, essential, but indecent if it shows | Helen Nielsen (1918-) |
| Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues. | Kong Fu Zi |
| Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters | Margaret Halsey (1910-1997) |
| What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God | Monica Baldwin |
| Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you. | Nicholai Velimirovic |
| True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be. | Ralph W. Sockman (1889-1970) |
| Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces | William Gurnall |
| Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. | Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) |
| I'm not insecure. I've been through way too much fucking shit to be insecure. I've got huge balls. But I've been humbled. That makes you grateful for every day you have. | Drew Barrymore (1975-) |
| The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it | Edgard Watson Howe |
| Humility is no substitute for a good personality. | Fran Lebowitz (1950-) |
| True humility is contentment. | Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881) |
| If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. | Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) |
| I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it? | Joan Baez (1941-) |
| The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it | Mignon McLaughlin (1915-) |
| The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have | Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993) |
| Humility is attentive patience. | Simone Weil (1909-1943) |
| If I only had a little humility I would be perfect | Ted Turner (1938-) |
| Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot | Sir Thomas More (1477-1535) |
| The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause is stronger than all the hosts of error | William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) |
| To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God | Monica Baldwin |
| Humility is like underwear, essential, but indecent if it shows | Helen Nielsen (1918-) |
| Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life. | George Arliss (1868-1946) |
| When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom | Bible |
| 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. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Humility makes great men twice honorable | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real | Thomas Merton (1915-1968) |
| True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be. | Ralph W. Sockman (1889-1970) |
| 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. | Saint Augustine (354-430) |
| Life is a long lesson in humility. | James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) |
| Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you. | Nicholai Velimirovic |
| I am no more humble than my talents require. | Oscar Levant (1906-1972) |
| Imagination is not the talent of some men, but is the health of every man | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. | Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) |
| Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot | Sir Thomas More (1477-1535) |
| We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| If I had any humility I would be perfect | Ted Turner (1938-) |
| Humility is attentive patience. | Simone Weil (1909-1943) |
| Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom | Bible |
| To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them. | Charles de Montesquieu (1689-1755) |
| Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends. | Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) |
| I feel coming on a strange disease - humility. | Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) |
| The churches must learn humility as well as teach it. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Humility is like underwear, essential, but indecent if it shows | Helen Nielsen (1918-) |
| Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed. | James Allen (1864-1942) |
| I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it? | Joan Baez (1941-) |
| Without humility there can be no humanity | John Buchan (1875-1940) |
| There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks | John Dryden (1631-1700) |
| Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad. | John Ruskin (1819-1900) |
| Too many activists have convinced themselves that they have a monopoly on truth. A little humility and a sense of history could move us all forward. | Jon Meacham |
| Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself. | Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) |
| In the process of trial and error, Our failed attempts are meant to destroy arrogance and provoke humility. | Master Jin Kwon (1957-) |
| Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests. | Max Beerbohm (1872-1956) |
| One may be humble out of pride. | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) |
| What we say does not matter - only what God says to souls through us. | Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997) |
| I have lived as plain Mr. Jinnah and I hope to die as plain Mr. Jinnah. I am very much averse to any title or honours and I will be more than happy if there was no prefix to my name. | Muhammad Ali Jinnah |
| The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel. | Piet Mondrian |
| Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less. | Rick Warren |
| The moment you say 'I know everything' is the end of your growth. | Sharon Lee |
| If I had any humility I would be perfect | Ted Turner (1938-) |
| Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real | Thomas Merton (1915-1968) |
| The great thing about knowing you're wrong is the moment you realize it, you're right. | Vanna Bonta |
| Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity. | Vanna Bonta |
| Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave. | Wilson Mizner (1876-1933) |