Values & Character: Humility Quotes

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"An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof"

Walter Savage Landor, Poet

Walter Savage Landor

"Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor"

Pope John XXIII, Clergyman

"I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around"

George H. W. Bush, President

George H. W. Bush

"Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself"

Mortimer Adler, Philosopher

"The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them"

George Harrison, Musician

George Harrison

"We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine"

Dwight L. Moody, Clergyman

Dwight L. Moody

"No man can ever end with being superior, who will not begin with being inferior"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

Sydney Smith

"Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

Sydney Smith

"I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can"

Charlie Kaufman, Screenwriter

"Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything"

Steve Wozniak, Businessman

Steve Wozniak

"I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends"

Jose Saramago, Writer

"At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod"

Paul McCartney, Musician

"Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight"

Milan Kundera, Writer

"Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity"

Dylan Thomas, Poet

"Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be"

H. P. Lovecraft, Novelist

"One should use praise to recognize what one is not"

Elias Canetti, Author

Elias Canetti

"And I'm not a personality; otherwise I'd be coming out with an album, performing on MTV. All that stuff is possible and I can do that tomorrow. I just have no need"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

Shia LaBeouf

"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less"

Rick Warren, Writer

"A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him"

Edgar Watson Howe, Editor

"No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man"

Bruce Barton, Author

Bruce Barton

"Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation"

Gustav Stresemann, Politician

Gustav Stresemann

"There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other"

Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Philosopher

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

"I've never considered myself a leading man, don't look like one, don't want to be one"

Brion James, Actor

"I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand"

Brigitte Bardot, Actress

"Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss"

Thomas Kempis, Writer

Thomas Kempis

"She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth"

Christina Rossetti, Poet

Christina Rossetti

"I don't want to be known as the Hilton heiress, because I didn't do anything for that"

Paris Hilton, Celebrity

Paris Hilton

"It is much safer to obey than to rule"

Thomas Kempis, Writer

Thomas Kempis

"If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?"

Thomas Kempis, Writer

Thomas Kempis

"Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault"

Thomas Kempis, Writer

Thomas Kempis

"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be"

Thomas Kempis, Writer

Thomas Kempis

"We rise in glory as we sink in pride"

Andrew Young, Clergyman

"Work at being a humble person"

John Templeton, Businessman

"Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we acknowledge our need for their different insights and perspectives, the more they will be magnetized to join us"

Margaret J. Wheatley, Writer

"The essence of greatness is neglect of the self"

James Anthony Froude, Historian

James Anthony Froude

"The better one is morally, the less aware they are of their virtue"

James Anthony Froude, Historian

James Anthony Froude

"If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more"

John Templeton, Businessman

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