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Still, Marmee, who exhorts her daughters to modest virtue, humility, self-sacrifice and sisterly love, will hold them together until Father's return.
Afterward, in unison, they recited the black-belt oath ("Honesty, integrity, humility, self-control, perseverance, indomitable spirit") and hugged the senseis before gathering their belongings and their bus passes.
Father Paisios had much to say about the virtues of humility, self-discipline and the need to avoid judging others; but in the Greek-nationalist blogosphere he is better known for various apocalyptic "prophecies" of war involving Greece, Turkey, Russia and other European powers.
A cutting-edge collection of papers by philosophers and psychologists, Moral Psychology, volume 5: Virtue and Character both engages with such general debates as the value of approaching moral questions via the notions of character and virtue, and the relationship between virtue and happiness, and offers fresh accounts of individual virtues such as humility, self-control, and compassion.
Self-respect is often defined as a sense of worth or as due respect for oneself; it is frequently (but not always correctly) identified with or compared to self-esteem, self-confidence, dignity, self-love, a sense of honor, self-reliance, pride, and it is contrasted (but not always correctly) with servility, shame, humility, self-abnegation, arrogance, self-importance.
"The Gift of Peace" teaches humility, self-abandonment, relinquishment of control.
These techniques promoted physical health and spiritual development and the "martial virtues (wudi)" of discipline, humility, self-restraint, and respect for life.
All too often we equate humility with self-effacement or even self-denigration or self-denial.
It was a rare moment of humility and self-awareness in a profession in which ego and entitlement run amok.
You need a degree of humility and self-awareness.
