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"The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue"
Confucius, Philosopher
"In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes"
John Ruskin, Writer
"A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride"
C. S. Lewis, Author
"I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility"
John Ruskin, Writer
"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy"
Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher
"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it"
Colin Powell, Statesman
"Power is dangerous unless you have humility"
Richard J. Daley, Politician
"Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable"
Loretta Young, Actress
"They're very nationalistic, the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant"
Arthur Boyd, Artist
"I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good"
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect
"I don't feel like a star; I never have. I don't feel like a star; I never have. I always feel like I'm the young one, I'm the small one. I always have someone to look up to, and I think it helps me with motivating myself"
Shawn Johnson, Athlete
"Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot"
Thomas Moore, Poet
"It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help"
Judith Martin, Author
"The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender"
William Booth, Leader
"I was blown away by the standing ovation. I've had tributes before, sure, but I don't retain that feeling, and I wasn't prepared for it on Tuesday. But maybe you shouldn't retain these things or you'd be on a permanent high"
Burt Bacharach, Composer
"This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
"Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
"One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him"
Lao Tzu, Author
"Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition"
Abraham Lincoln, President
"Common looking people are the best in the world: That is the reason the Lord makes so many of them"
Abraham Lincoln, President
"The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others"
Cicero, Philosopher
"A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions"
Confucius, Philosopher
"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint"
Albert Schweitzer, Theologian
"Of all acts of man, repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
"I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires"
Kahlil Gibran, Poet
"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need"
Kahlil Gibran, Poet
"There would be no great men if there were no little ones"
George Herbert, Poet
"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility"
Saint Augustine, Saint
"Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation"
Saint Augustine, Saint
"Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself"
Blaise Pascal, Philosopher
"To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine"
Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist
"Be content to seem what you really are"
Marcus Aurelius, Soldier
"Is pride the never-failing vice of fools?"
Alexander Pope, Poet
"The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance"
Samuel Butler, Poet
"I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle"
Jane Austen, Writer
"Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously"
Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman
"I'm the same kind of guy before all this happened"
Michael Phelps, Athlete
"Self-conceit may lead to self destruction"
Aesop, Author
"The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit"
Aesop, Author
"We grow small trying to be great"
David Hockney, Artist
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