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"What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player"
John Wooden, Coach
"Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful"
John Wooden, Coach
"We do not exist for ourselves"
Thomas Merton, Author
"It takes a great man to be a good listener"
Calvin Coolidge, President
"There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul"
Simone Weil, Philosopher
"Humility is attentive patience"
Simone Weil, Philosopher
"Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head"
Elvis Presley, Musician
"Showing off is the fool's idea of glory"
Bruce Lee, Actor
"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop"
Mother Teresa, Leader
"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies"
Mother Teresa, Leader
"A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does"
Anton Chekhov, Dramatist
"We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts"
Madeleine L'Engle, Novelist
"There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence"
John Calvin, Theologian
"A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less"
Jean de La Bruyère, Philosopher
"The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings"
Fulton J. Sheen, Clergyman
"Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise"
Lord Chesterfield, Statesman
"There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion"
Reinhold Niebuhr, Theologian
"I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily"
Michael Jackson, Musician
"Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man"
Satchel Paige, Athlete
"Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado"
Menander, Poet
"Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God"
Abu Bakr, Leader
"If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search"
John Templeton, Businessman
"Conquer, but don't triumph"
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Novelist
"The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease"
Marianne Moore, Poet
"If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect"
Ted Turner, Businessman
"Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty"
Jefferson Davis, President
"Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart"
Robert South, Clergyman
"Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty"
Louisa May Alcott, Novelist
"I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid"
Mariah Carey, Musician
"It is much easier to find fault with others than to be faultless ourselves"
Samuel Richardson, Novelist
"I'm busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesn't appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else"
Steve Albini, Musician
"Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it"
Edward Norton, Actor
"Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival"
Stephen Jay Gould, Scientist
"I shall be but a shrimp of an author"
Thomas Gray, Poet
"The boughs that bear most hang lowest"
David Garrick, Actor
"Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance"
Al Goldstein, Publisher
"Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility"
James Montgomery, Poet
"If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate"
Francois Fenelon, Clergyman
"I'm the biggest hypocrite of 2015"
Kendrick Lamar, Musician
"Arrogance is an exaggeration of the truth"
Phil Heath, Athlete
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