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Meekness, n. Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

Ambrose Bierce

They are proud in humility; proud in that they are not proud.

Robert Burton

Humility has its origin in an awareness of unwor-thiness, and sometimes too in a dazzled awareness of saintliness.

Colette

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy.

E. M. Forster

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.

Dag Hammarskjold

Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.

Eric Hoffer

Humility is the first of the virtues-for other people.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Meekness is the mask of malice.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Inspirational Quote

Everything you can imagine is real.

- Pablo Picasso

Motivational Quote

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

- Confucius

Friendship Quote

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

- Euripides

Life Quote

The most important thing is to enjoy your life-to be happy-it's all that matters.

- Audrey Hepburn

Motivational Quote

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

- Lou Holtz

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