Humility
417 quotes: 31 by Keith Craft, 386 from other voices.
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- Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
- Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.
- Beware of no man more than yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
- Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures. Don't take yourself so seriously.
- Competition serves the ego. Cooperation supports the highest outcome.
- Conceit is the quicksand of success.
- Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.John RuskinCommonly attributed
- Confidence, not arrogance. Humility, not ego.
- Curiosity and questions will get you further than confidence and answers.
- Determination, courage, self-confidence lead to success, but we should always remain humble, modest and unpretentious.
- Distinction is the consequence, never the object, of a great mind.
- Distraction kills focus. Overthinking kills action. Overconfidence kills humility.
- Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.
- Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
- Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
- Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others.
- Do you want to be right? Or do you want what’s best for the work?
- Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself.
- Don’t be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you’ve been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?
- Don't let failure go to your heart, and don't let success go to your head.
- Don't speak of your talents, but make them speak of you.
- Don’t worry about looking good; worry about achieving your goal.
- Don’t worry that no one knows you, but seek to be worthy of being known.
- Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Ego is about who’s right. Truth is about what’s right.
- Ego is the ultimate killer on a team.
- Embrace confident humility: argue like you're right, listen like you're wrong.
- Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself.
- Every person that you meet knows something you don’t; learn from them.
- Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than ourselves.
- Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment.
- Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.
- Experience teaches only the teachable.
- Express gratitude generously and sincerely; receive gratitude humbly and graciously; expect gratitude rarely, if ever.
- Externally, be humble. Internally, be confident.
- Failing to admit a small mistake is the surest way to make a big one.
- Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
- Find your sense of importance in something outside of the self.
- Flattery is a base coin which gains currency only from our vanity.
- Flattery is a false coinage which would have no currency but for our vanity.