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"One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others"
Moliere, Playwright
"Don't be humble... you're not that great"
Golda Meir, Leader
"Be content to act, and leave the talking to others"
Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher
"You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest"
Denis Waitley, Writer
"Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one"
Lord Chesterfield, Statesman
"A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package"
Harry Emerson Fosdick, Clergyman
"Without humility there can be no humanity"
John Buchan, Politician
"I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts"
Robert E. Howard, Writer
"It almost hurts me to walk down a road and have people grab my hand and ask for my autograph and not sit and talk. When I'm finished I'm not going to be on the front page, but I'm going to be just as happy without the publicity"
Terry Fox, Athlete
"Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves"
Henry L. Stimson, Statesman
"They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes"
Anthony Trollope, Author
"Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves"
William Law, Clergyman
"It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows, that they don't always wake up looking their best, that they have bad habits and annoying traits"
Shirley Jones, Actress
"People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to"
Robert Half, Businessman
"Never think you're better than anyone else, but don't let anyone treat you like you're worse than they are"
Rip Torn, Actor
"The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed"
Claude Pepper, Politician
"I am not thinking that because people say I am great that I really am great. I am just doing a job, just like everybody else. The only difference is that a lot more people see what I do"
Oded Fehr, Actor
"I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open"
Kieran Culkin, Actor
"We are servants rather than masters in mathematics"
Charles Hermite, Mathematician
"You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere"
Dave Blood, Musician
"People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet"
Sa'Di, Poet
"I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell, I don't know why anyone would want to be famous. I can't imagine what need that would fill"
Jessica Cutler, Celebrity
"None are so empty as those who are full of themselves"
Benjamin Whichcote, Philosopher
"Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
"I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough"
Mark Twain, Author
"Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen"
Winston Churchill, Statesman
"Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do"
Thomas Jefferson, President
"When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
"If you're not very clever, you should be conciliatory"
Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman
"Humility is truth"
Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher
"The burden of the self is lightened with "I laugh at myself""
Rabindranath Tagore, Poet
"We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility"
Rabindranath Tagore, Poet
"This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections"
Saint Augustine, Saint
"Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher
"The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy"
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer
"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so"
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer
"From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right"
Samuel Butler, Poet
"I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want"
William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier
"I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best"
Walt Whitman, Poet
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