"The company owner doesn't need to win. The best idea does."

— John C. Maxwell, The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization 🍂

"By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You shewed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased."

— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice 🍂

"The Church has little idea how unorthodox it is at any given moment. If a church can't yet be perfectly orthodox, it can, with the Holy Spirit's help and by the grace of God, be perpetually reformable."

— Brian D. McLaren, A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I am a missional, evangelical, post/protestant, liberal/conservative, mystical/poetic, biblical, charismatic/contemplative, ... emergent, unfinished Christian 🍂

"It is a long journey, not just as a writer, but as a human being. Take nothing and no one for granted, be humble always, be kind especially when it's difficult and never forget the place where you came from and the people that helped you get where you are. These things will live on in you and through you, long after the words have faded."

— C.K. Webb 🍂

"Humility and pride will forever battle whenever or wherever love is concerned"

— Jeremy Aldana 🍂

"Charles Francis Adams was singular for mental poise absence of self-assertion or self-consciousness the faculty of standing apart without seeming aware that he was alone a balance of mind and temper that neither challenged nor avoided notice, nor admitted question of superiority or inferiority, of jealousy, of personal motives, from any source, even under great pressure."

— Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams 🍂

"We are not worthy to unloose the latchets of Jesus' shoes, because, if we do, we begin to say to ourselves, "What great folks are we; we have been allowed to loose the latchets of the Lord's sandals." If we do not tell somebody else about it with many an exultation, we at least tell ourselves about it, and feel that we are something after all, and ought to be held in no small repute."

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Humility and How to Get It 🍂

"I used to tell young preachers, in order to preach you've got to have the power of God on your life. Now I tell them, in order to tie your shoes you've got to have the power of God on your life."

— Paul David Washer 🍂

"How sweet is that? I know I'm no boy expert, but I have heard entire lectures on reading body language, and I have to say that assuming that a person will have forgotten your name is way high on my "indicators of humbleness" list (not that I have one, but I totally have a starting point now)."

— Ally Carter, I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You 🍂

"[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help."

— David Foster Wallace, The Best American Essays 2007 🍂

"When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility."

— Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth 🍂

"If there is one single reason why good people turn evil, it is because they fail to recognize Gods ownership over their kingdom, their vocation, their resources, their abilities, and above all their lives."

— Erwin W. Lutzer, When You've Been Wronged: Moving From Bitterness to Forgiveness 🍂

"That's an animal fable about humility. If you survive your mistake, you must learn from it. Accept that you're fragile, vulnerable, and sometimes stupid. Realize that you're not immortal and you've got to take care of yourself. And then laugh it off and fly away."

— Marc Maron, Attempting Normal 🍂

"But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance."

— Stephen Mitchell, The Book of Job 🍂

"The devilthe prowde spiritecannot endure to be mocked."

— Thomas More 🍂

"Love the life you have been given. And be humbled by it. It is not to be despised."

— G. Willow Wilson 🍂

"Mary-born Lord, humble us so that we also might say, "Let it be with me according to your word."

— Stanley Hauerwas, Prayers Plainly Spoken 🍂

"Weel, maam' said Stephen, making the best of it, with a smile; 'when I hafinished off, I mun quit this part, and try another. Fortnet or misfortnet, a man can but try; theres now to be done wiout tryin -cept laying down and dying."

— Charles Dickens, Hard Times 🍂

"No one is is sure of his premise as the man who knows too little."

— Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam 🍂

"In every family there is a murderer, a thief and a crazy person. And if you have a little Blue blood in the line, you can be sure there are more than one of each."

— Clark Jeffries 🍂