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"I like to hear about what people do. That's more interesting than talking about what the hell I do"
John Madden, Coach
"Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble"
John Madden, Coach
"Always, first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency"
Franz Kafka, Novelist
"I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted"
Samuel Butler, Poet
"Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II"
Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer
"Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place"
Harry S. Truman, President
"I'm so glad I never feel important, It does complicate life!"
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady
"As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along"
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady
"What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it"
Dan Rather, Journalist
"Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud"
W. H. Auden, Poet
"Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person"
Horace, Poet
"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best"
Walt Whitman, Poet
"Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast"
Jane Austen, Writer
"We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up"
Jesse Jackson, Activist
"I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter"
Denzel Washington, Actor
"I've worked in a factory. I was a garbage man. I worked in a post office. It's not that long ago. I like to think that I'm just a regular guy"
Denzel Washington, Actor
"No truly great person ever thought themselves so"
William Hazlitt, Critic
"While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things"
Saint Francis de Sales, Clergyman
"The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors"
William Hazlitt, Critic
"The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity"
Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist
"If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself"
Charles M. Schulz, Cartoonist
"I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace"
Pierre Corneille, Dramatist
"We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled"
Mason Cooley, Writer
"Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it"
Colin Powell, Statesman
"Being branded number one restaurant in the world is actually very humbling"
Heston Blumenthal, Chef
"I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me"
Thomas Merton, Author
"I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing"
Audrey Hepburn, Actress
"It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'"
Audrey Hepburn, Actress
"I just didn't want to get out there anymore; I didn't want to get back into what I call 'the swamp.' And the other reason why is I don't think it's good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama's got plenty of critics - and I'm just not gonna be one"
George W. Bush, President
"Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less"
Leo Rosten, Novelist
"Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are"
James Cash Penney, Businessman
"Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise"
Edward Young, Poet
"Modesty is the color of virtue"
Diogenes of Sinope, Philosopher
"Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought"
Simone Weil, Philosopher
"It well becomes a young man to be modest"
Plautus, Playwright
"I never expected to be anybody important"
Elvis Presley, Musician
"Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them"
T. S. Eliot, Poet
"He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest"
Theodor Adorno, Philosopher
"In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be"
Gloria Steinem, Activist
"Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue"
John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist
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