Washington Allston Quotes

Work at being a humble person.

People with humility don't think less of themselves, they just think of themselves less.

There is no true and constant gentleness without humility. While we are so fond of ourselves, we are easily offended with others. Let us be persuaded that nothing is due to us, and then nothing will disturb us. Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we will become indulgent towards those of others.

There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal.

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

So much of how we act and what we do is based on humility or pride - that's everything. And when you can humble yourself, you know, we are more like Christ when we can humble ourselves.

I never dwell on what I've personally achieved.

Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.

Self-deprecating or arrogant, it's all selfish. Hard as it is, life's better when you spend more time on the rest of the world

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.

There is no harder lesson for man to learn than the lesson of humility. It is the rarest of all gifts. It is a very rare thing to find a man or woman that is following closely the footsteps of the Master in meekness and humility.

Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.

... learning humility is a prerequisite for grace.

Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others

Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.

You can't have ego and gratitude at the same time.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.

I'm not one to speak about myself. I like to speak about the people around me.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.