Quotes About Humility

The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.

Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.

Little people belittle people. Great people make people feel great.

When you get before great people you don't talk a lot, you ask questions

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

No job is beneath you. You ought to be thrilled you got a job in the mailroom And when you get there, here's what you do: Be really great at sorting mail.

My dearly beloved if I am to die today and never see the sweet face of you I want you to know that I am no great man and am lucky to have such a woman as you.

I don't know that I am a great leader at all, I just know I really care about what I do.

Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.

In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable.

Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.

I wouldn't say I'm a phenomenon, just a great athlete.

If you are really great, you will let others discover this fact from your actions.

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

Humility is the only lens though which great things can be seen--and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible.

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

Great leaders don't see themselves as great; they see themselves as human.

Curiously enough, while very small people have a never-failing sense of their own importance, very great ones are often easily disheartened and put out of conceit with themselves.

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

As my great friend Aristotle said, 'If you cannot command, you must learn to listen.' I'm not the hierarchy here. I am a worker bee.

Great leaders are never too proud to learn.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

He is invited to do great things who receives small things greatly.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.