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God, grant me the clarity to recognize when I need Advice,
The humility to seek Information when I lack understanding,
The courage to ask others to help me Do what I cannot alone,
The frankness to connect in hard times and good,
And the confidence to invite advocates to speak on my behalf.
May each request for aid be an offering of trust,
And each accept
... See more“He was so humble he didn’t even know he was humble.”
Alan Morinis • Everyday Holiness: The Jewish Spiritual Path of Mussar
The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi • The Story of My Experiments With Truth (Classics To Go)
one of the most powerful ways to increase your savings isn’t to raise your income. It’s to raise your humility.
Morgan Housel • The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
The power of being a student is not just that it is an extended period of instruction, it also places the ego and ambition in someone else’s hands. There is a sort of ego ceiling imposed—one knows that he is not better than the “master” he apprentices under. Not even close. You defer to them, you subsume yourself. You cannot fake or bullshit them.
... See moreRyan Holiday • Ego Is the Enemy
Humility is often misunderstood. It’s not a matter of having low self-confidence. One of the Latin roots of humility means “from the earth.” It’s about being grounded—recognizing that we’re flawed and fallible.