Quotes About Humility

The more powerful a person truly is, the less they need to promote it. And the stronger a leader is, the less they need to announce it.

We take life so seriously. But at the end, the billionaire gets buried next to the street sweeper.

A bad day for the ego is a good day for the soul

Brag less, create more. Distract less, learn more. Gossip less, produce more. Take less, give more. Hate less, love more.

Elimina la falsedad, el miedo y la arrogancia que provienen del ego.

If you want to make God laugh, then tell him your plans!

A bad day for the ego is a great day for the soul

I believe the humblest is the greatest. Pure leaders are so secure in their own skin their main mission is the elevation of others. They have such self-respect, joyfulness and peacefulness within themselves that they don't need to advertise their success to society in a feeble attempt to feel a little better.

You can't see the world the way you ought to if you let yourself do that. Any judgement of the kind is a great presumption. And presumption is a very grave sin. I believe this is sound theology, in its way.

Klausykis sen? žmoni? patarim?. Kai užaugame, mums atrodo, kad žinome visk?. Manome, kad seniai kuoktel?j?, Metams b?gant, sukaupiame per daug išdidumo. Jis mus ir pražudo.

In waiting for the glorious moment of that first book contract, writers must have giant reservoirs of patience. Yet they must persevere because they don't know the destiny that is being worked out for them. They creep humbly along the ground, without the spacious aerial vision of their lives that would show them the destiny in store for them.

The New York Times foresaw that in future generations "if a great soldier is indomitable in purpose and exhaustless in courage, endurance, and equanimity; if he is free from vanity and pettiness, if he is unpretentious, truthful, frank, constant, generous to friends, magnanimous to foes, and patriotic to the core, of him it will be said, 'He is like Grant.

The main thing was to prove that you were not taking your good fortune for granted.

It was symptomatic of Jack's humility and his insecurity that when he made an exciting discovery in his laboratory, he chalked it off it to luck.

Are you going to let this money puff you up? Keep your eyes open. Don't lose your balance.

These intimate conversations with myself, I'm sure, had a great influence on my life. I was afraid I could not stand my prosperity, and tried to teach myself not to get puffed up with any foolish notions.

He was respectful toward his superiors but never awed by them and was always aware of their shortcomings.

But you must keep this contract secret even from your wife. When you begin to make more money, don't let anybody know it. Don't put on any more style.

Rockefeller was similarly suspicious of any boasting or ostentation among associates.

Far from trying to parade his wealth, he wanted to blend into the scenery.

6 He also saw his father's vanity, noting how after one good deed he was "simply too pleased with himself.

Rockefeller felt no discomfort at being surrounded by humble people

Don't let ego get in the way of a good decision." "You just trashed every general in our nation's history.

He finished his story with a little facial shrug, part Yankee modesty, part genuine perplexity. As in, how did that happen?