Browsing Quotes With Tag: humility (15)
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“...so long as good deeds are motivated by selfish or malicious desires they cannot transform and enrich either the giver or the receiver”
Source: Joseph Fielding McConkie, Robert L. Millet, and Brent L. Top, Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of MormonPosted: 09 Jun 2015 at 1:45 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperiences, and the potentially offensive actions of others.”
Speaker: David A. BednarSource: "And Nothing Shall Offend Them," OCTOBER 2006 Conference ReportPosted: 10 Mar 2014 at 4:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You will find wise men in any religion. And good men in every nation.
Those who truly seek wisdom are those who will acknowledge the virtue in their adversaries and who will learn from those who disabuse them of error. All others are equally closed-minded.Speaker: Brandon SandersonSource: the Way of KingsPosted: 19 Jan 2014 at 12:04 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Speaker: Ayn RandPosted: 14 Nov 2011 at 7:59 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Only if you are pure in heart will you see God, and also in a lesser degree will you be able to see the “god” or good in man and love him because of the goodness you see in him.
Speaker: President Harold B. LeeSource: Constitution for a Perfect LifePosted: 23 Feb 2011 at 10:16 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Unless we are poor in spirit (humble), we feel like we have to defend ourselves. People only attack another person if they feel threatened. God’s law is an inward thing. It deals with the part of us that wants to attack.
Speaker: Gay paraphrazing Patrick DegnSource: Education WeekPosted: 23 Feb 2011 at 10:13 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
'To be poor in spirit is to feel yourselves as the spiritually needy, even dependent upon the Lord for your clothes, your food, the air you breathe, your health, your life; realizing that no day should pass without fervent prayer of thanksgiving, for guidance and forgiveness and strength sufficient for each day’s need. ... To the worldly rich it is that “he must possess his wealth as if he possessed it not”
Speaker: President Harold B. LeeSource: Constitution for a Perfect LifePosted: 23 Feb 2011 at 10:08 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The place appointed for Adam’s residence was a garden, not an ivory house nor a palace overlaid with gold, but a garden . . . Adam too was born into humble circumstances. This is a clarion call to the Saints to live lives of simplicity rather than excess, humility rather than extravagance.
Speaker: Alonzo L. GaskillSource: The Savior and the Serpent, Unlocking the Doctrines of the Fall, page 53-54Posted: 27 Jun 2009 at 9:09 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The first test of a truly great man is his humility. I do not mean, by humility, doubt of his own power. But really great men have a curious feeling that greatness is not in them, but through them, and they see something divine in every other man, and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful.
Speaker: John RuskinsPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 7:06 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Just remember, when you put yourself on a pedestal and elevate yourself above the rest of the world, the size of your funeral will still depend a lot on the weather.
Posted: 19 Mar 2009 at 8:45 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.
Speaker: Martin Luther King Jr.Posted: 18 Mar 2009 at 8:46 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.
Speaker: ConfuciusPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 6:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
Speaker: ConfuciusPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 6:31 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Humor involves a sense of proportion and a power or seeing yourself from the outside.
Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:00 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Life is a long lesson in humility.
Speaker: James M. BarriePosted: 27 Mar 2008 at 10:04 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!