“ I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
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“ A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind, and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart. ”
- Pietro Aretino- Copy
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“ It is only through timidity that states are lost. ”
- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire- Copy
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“ Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. ”
- Jean Paul Richter- Copy
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“ It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot. ”
- Thomas Moore- Copy
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“ Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ If I only had an hour to chop down a tree, I would spend the first 45 minutes sharpening my axe. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Nearest the throne itself must be The footstool of humility. ”
- James Montgomery- Copy
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“ Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility. ”
- James Montgomery- Copy
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“ Success is partly a matter of luck, and may be a question of cowardice. Just as cowards come back from wartime alive, so they may get rich and sleek and influential. ”
- Edward Hoagland- Copy
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“ Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in. ”
- Gustave Flaubert- Copy
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“ UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility. ”
- Elayne Boosler- Copy
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“ That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me. ”
- Andre Dubus- Copy
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“ Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice. ”
- George Holbrook Jackson- Copy
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“ You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness. ”
- Susan Lucci- Copy
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