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"Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation"
Herman Melville, Novelist
"Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings"
Cary Grant, Actor
"My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person"
Mike Tyson, Athlete
"I just want to be humble at all times"
Mike Tyson, Athlete
"None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not"
Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher
"I'm sorry, my existence is not very noble or sublime"
Keanu Reeves, Actor
"Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious"
Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher
"I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent"
Tom Hanks, Actor
"Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor"
John Churton Collins, Critic
"None of us, whether Men or Women, but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves"
Mary Astell, Writer
"That man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments"
Mary Astell, Writer
"Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age, I discovered that I was not God"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Jurist
"Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault"
Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman
"I am not learned, but I have as good feelings as any man"
Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman
"I recognize my limits, but when I look around, I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants"
Giulio Andreotti, Politician
"The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting"
Gertrude Stein, Author
"The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies"
Henry B. Adams, Historian
"A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything"
Michael Caine, Actor
"I am no more humble than my talents require"
Oscar Levant, Composer
"I believe celebrity spoils people - some worse than others"
Phil Donahue, Entertainer
"Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighborhood"
Phil Donahue, Entertainer
"All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people"
Alexis Carrel, Scientist
"We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery"
Paulo Coelho, Novelist
"Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self"
Charles Spurgeon, Clergyman
"None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves"
Charles Spurgeon, Clergyman
"Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble"
Joseph Addison, Writer
"Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue"
Joseph Addison, Writer
"A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of"
Joseph Addison, Writer
"An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person"
Joseph Addison, Writer
"These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile"
Ayrton Senna, Celebrity
"Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth"
Don Marquis, Journalist
"It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not"
Jean de La Bruyère, Philosopher
"A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself"
Jean de La Bruyère, Philosopher
"Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life"
Alec Guinness, Actor
"I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent"
Will Smith, Actor
"Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals"
Fulton J. Sheen, Clergyman
"It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others"
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Theologian
"The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble"
James M. Barrie, Playwright
"Life is a long lesson in humility"
James M. Barrie, Playwright
"Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds"
James M. Barrie, Playwright
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