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Quotes About Humility

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
~ Edmund Burke
No executive devotes effort to proving himself wrong.
~ Robert Heller
The whole thing of this business is to retain your enthusiasm and, in a sense, retain your innocence and try to practice as much humility as possible.
~ John Frankenheimer
He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.
~ Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
Not every gift must you stretch your hands to take! Sometimes, just put your hands by your side and humbly and courageously say thank you!
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Jesus Christ is the Master of the business we are doing. We are not the master
~ Sunday Adelaja
When you are on top of your game you don't have to talk about it, the world will do that for you.
~ Unknown
Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.
~ Jack Lemmon
I often pay homeless people to come round and clean my car.
~ Unknown
I still think I'm like the poor girl from Colorado who worked three jobs to buy a car. That's still my mentality, so I'll be walking down the street, and I forget what I do and who I am.
~ Amy Adams
I've lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
~ Tom Waits
I wasn't one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded.
~ Christina Applegate
I don't have a lavish lifestyle with expensive cars.
~ Donny Osmond
It grieves me when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model car.
~ Pope Francis
Celebrities have to get their cars washed just like everybody else.
~ Saul
Do not always prove yourself to be the one in the right. The right will appear. You need only give it a chance.
~ Charles Henry Fowler
When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
You might consider that you yourself are an arrogant person or you might consider that someone else is an arrogant person, but everybody who has ever felt even a moment of arrogance knows that arrogance is just a cover-up for really feeling that you're the worst horse, and always trying to prove otherwise.
~ Pema Chodron
The truth is that when we really begin to do this, we're going to be continually humbled. There's not going to be much room for the arrogance that holding on to ideals can bring. The arrogance that inevitably does arise is going to be continually shot down by our own courage to step forward a little further.
~ Pema Chodron
This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion. It can humble us when we're arrogant and soften us when we are unkind.
~ Pema Chodron
If you are interested in these teachings, then you have to accept the fact that you're never going to get it all together." It was a shocking statement to me. He said with a lot of clarity, "You are never going to get it all together, you're never going to get your act together, fully, completely. You're never going to get all the little loose ends tied up.
~ Pema Chodron
Don't ponder others' weak points, becoming arrogant about your own accomplishments.
~ Pema Chodron
But there is that feeling. And there's always another challenge, and that keeps us humble. Life knocks you off your pedestal.
~ Pema Chodron
31 Don't malign others.     COMMENTARY You speak badly of others thinking it will make you feel superior. This only sows seeds of meanness in your heart, causing others not to trust you and causing you to suffer.
~ Pema Chodron