Humility
417 quotes: 31 by Keith Craft, 386 from other voices.
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- Most of the real winners in life are so busy contributing, they don’t even think of seeking publicity for their acts.
- Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
- My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
- My opponent is my teacher, my ego is my enemy.
- Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
- Never take your position for granted and never let any favors you receive go to your head.
- No man can end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
- No man is wise enough by himself.
- No one knows everything. But together, we know a whole lot.
- Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.
- Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
- None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
- None have more pride than those who dream that they have none. You may labor against vainglory till you conceive that you are humble, and the fond conceit of your humility will prove to be pride in full bloom.
- Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility.
- O, it is excellent To have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
- Observe thyself as thy greatest enemy would do; so shalt thou be thy greatest friend.
- Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
- One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
- One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.
- One of the most important rules of the science of manners is an almost absolute silence in regard to yourself.
- Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own, behind our back.
- Our distinctions do not lie in the places which we occupy, but in the grace and dignity with which we fill them.
- Our job in life is to make a positive difference, not prove we're right.
- Past success is poisonous to future success. Humility is the antidote.
- Pay attention to negative feedback and solicit it, particularly from friends. Hardly anyone does that, and it’s incredibly helpful.
- Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, and supped with Infamy.Benjamin FranklinCommonly attributed
- Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.
- Pride is the problem, humility is the answer.
- Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
- Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow.
- Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
- Progress is the real cure for an overestimate of ourselves.
- Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.
- Real toughness resides in being humble and wise enough to acknowledge your strengths and weaknesses.
- Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
- Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.
- Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.
- Search others for their virtues, and thyself for thy vices.
- Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able and yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
- Sense shines with a double lustre when set in humility.