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"A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others"
Robert E. Lee, General
"Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men"
Donald Rumsfeld, Politician
"People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn't go to my head"
Jimmy Carter, President
"There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble"
Washington Irving, Writer
"The awareness of our own strength makes us modest"
Paul Cezanne, Artist
"When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win"
George Clooney, Actor
"Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification"
John Donne, Poet
"Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves"
Willa Cather, Author
"After I hit a home run, I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases"
Mickey Mantle, Athlete
"There are no small churches, just small people"
Edwin Louis Cole, Author
"To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance"
Buddha, Leader
"The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem"
Dean Acheson, Statesman
"I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am"
Gerald R. Ford, President
"Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one"
Lord Chesterfield, Statesman
"Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked"
Lord Chesterfield, Statesman
"I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally"
Ulysses S. Grant, President
"I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy"
Lionel Messi, Athlete
"Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved"
Margaret Fuller, Critic
"Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated"
James Dean, Actor
"Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing"
Alexander Hamilton, Politician
"I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that, when I look, all I get to see are the flaws"
Neil Gaiman, Author
"Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn"
Charlie Sheen, Actor
"O be very sure that no man will learn anything at all, unless he first will learn humility"
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, Politician
"Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life"
William Ellery Channing, Writer
"To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years"
Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician
"The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is"
Phillips Brooks, Clergyman
"Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible"
Sallust, Historian
"The feet of the humblest may walk in the field where the feet of the holiest trod, this, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed"
Phillips Brooks, Clergyman
"Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us"
Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader
"The hoopla, the applause, the praises have never excited me"
Martin Yan, Celebrity
"The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them"
John Buchan, Politician
"Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man"
William Howard Taft, President
"To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good"
Barbra Streisand, Actress
"Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by"
Andre Maurois, Writer
"I'm always amazed at anyone's interest in what I have to say"
Orlando Bloom, Actor
"If you do not raise your eyes, you will think you are the highest point"
Antonio Porchia, Poet
"It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people"
Magnus Carlsen
"The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company"
Pope John XXIII, Clergyman
"Great men always pay deference to greater"
Walter Savage Landor, Poet
"Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring"
Shelley Duvall, Actress
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