I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids...

An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.

Humility carries less weight and it makes things float. Pride is weighty and it makes things sink! It takes humility then for a 'ship', regardless of how loaded it is, to float on the surface of the...

The answer is that their confidence was actually in God, not in their limited understanding of what they thought he would do. They had inner assurance that God would rescue them. However, they were...

To guard our character with unwavering commitment, our best protection comes from being humbly aware of our vulnerability.

I don't have to be the smartest person in the room, I just have to be in the room.

An inability to encourage someone else is usually rooted in an absorption with self that is blind to the needs or gifts of others, or a pride that cannot bring itself to praise God's grace in them.

Our own path, whatever we aspire to, will in some ways be defined by the amount of nonsense we are willing to deal with. It doesn't matter how talented you are, how great your connections are, how...

Find canvases for other people to paint on. Clear the path for the people above you and you will eventually create a path for yourself. Greatness comes from humble beginnings; it comes from grunt...

The first product of self-knowledge is humility, Flannery O'Connor once said. This is how we fight the ego, by really knowing ourselves.

Humility is as good for the soul as it is for the memory

He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them into their own...

Let us retreat when we can, not when we must. Lord Chatham

Folly is a child of power.

Awful momentum makes carrying through easier than calling off folly.

Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a...

Just because you can't act EVERYWHERE doesn't mean you don't act ANYWHERE. – Madeleine Albright

And yet now and then he let himself steal a glance at her. Lovely dark colors of her skin, hair, and eyes. We are half-baked compared to them. Allowed out of the kiln before we were fully done. The...

And the memory made her humble; for we should not forget what it is to be young and to have ideas and attitudes that may later seem so fanciful.