Quotes About Humility

Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions.

If we're going to be authentic in our leadership, we will have to be willing to serve, and we have to be willing to suffer.

I owe all my success to stupidity.

I'm not normally a jewelry person. I'm supposed to be a working class champion and all, and I don't like to rub my success in people's faces.

Failure should never go to heart and success should never go to head, both makes a person to fall in life.

When you have gained a victory, do not push it too far; 'tis sufficient to let the company and your adversary see 'tis in your power but that you are too generous to make use of it.

Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

Failures teach you. Success makes you arrogant

Show me success without ego!

It's important not to take anything for granted.

Adventurers tend to prance about the ladder of success, fearing less the sensation of a great fall than the humility of hanging idle.

People get successful and they start saying, 'Well of course I am! I was chosen! I'm special!' No, you're not.

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

There is no way in which a man can earn a star or deserve a sunset.

I realize I can never take my success for granted. It's not attractive for anyone to be like that.

If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk.

The only thing success should do is make you more humble.

I have no inflated ideas about success anyway.

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success.

Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him.

There's no point in success if you don't let it go to your head. That's what it's for.

There's times when you see people climbing and getting success and you start to see, oh, they're starting to really change. So I always just make the effort to be as humble and grateful as possible.

Now that everyone is reinventing and innovating, advantage goes to those who keep at it. We need to greet even success with humility.

Sí, pero, ¿adónde vamos? -Ya os lo he dicho. Donde el aire es puro, donde el ruido adormece, donde por orgulloso que el hombre sea se siente humillado y pequeño; amo estas impresiones, yo, a quien llaman el dueño del mundo como a Augusto. -Pero, ¿adónde vais? -Al mar