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Quotes About Humility

The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you're doing.
~ Richard Hamming
Knock, And He'll open the door Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.
~ Rumi
In sha Allah, God willing, must be the expression of humility of the active actors and it must never be the justification of the passive observers
~ Tariq Ramadan
Be Charitable before wealth make thee covetous, and loose not the glory of the Mite.
~ Thomas Browne
For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.
~ Franz Beckenbauer
If you ever find you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.
~ Austin Kleon
The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
~ Francis Bacon
Humility is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.
~ Sir Edward Hulse, 6th Baronet
Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.
~ Michael Cunningham, The Hours
Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.
~ Karen Blixen
You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.
~ George Clooney
How much larger your life would be if you were smaller in it.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Let us not judge others, because we simply don't know that had we lived their life, we might be exactly the same.
~ Hal Elrod
The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I don't want to be king, I want to be real.
~ John Lennon
He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.
~ Joseph Campbell
I've just got to let my teammates know in practice, without even telling them, that I don't think I'm ahead of anybody.
~ Kevin Durant
Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep." Said the tube-rose to the skunk, "Oh, most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!"
~ Khalil Gibran
If you want the Lord to hide your sins, then don't talk to people about what kind of virtues you have. For as we relate to our virtues, so God relates to our sins.
~ Marcus Eremita
You know what's cool? My kids think I'm ordinary.
~ Michael J. Fox
How could you look more stupid than to be the guy accepting a bronze medal in gold shoes?
~ Michael Johnson
We think we do so much for the poor, but it is they who make us rich
~ Mother Teresa
One who strictly prosecutes the misdemeanors of others will find not condescension towards his own.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
Hold on to your own ideal. . . . Above all, never attempt to guide or rule others, or, as the Yankees say, "boss" others. Be the servant of all.
~ Swami Vivekananda