In America, They Want You To Accomplish These Great Feats, To Pull Off These David Copperfield-Type Stunts. You Want Me To Be Great, But You Don’t Ever Want Me To Say I’m Great?
- Kanye West
Humility Is No Substitute For A Good Personality.
- Fran Lebowitz
Life Is A Long Lesson In Humility.
- James M. Barrie
Always Acknowledge A Fault. This Will Throw Those In Authority Off Their Guard And Give You An Opportunity To Commit More.
- Mark Twain
The Loss Of One’s Dignified Bearing Is Often Sudden.
- Jerry Van Amerongen
It Well Becomes A Young Man To Be Modest.
- Titus Maccius Plautus
Modesty Is A Shining Light; It Prepares The Mind To Receive Knowledge, And The Heart For Truth.
- Madam Guizot
I Am No More Humble Than My Talents Require.
- Oscar Levant
If I Only Had A Little Humility, I’d Be Perfect.
- Ted Turner
He Who Speaks Without Modesty Will Find It Difficult To Make His Words Good.
- Confucius
The Firm, The Enduring, The Simple, And The Modest Are Near To Virtue.
You Couldn’t Be That Good And Not Know It, Somewhere In Your Secret Heart, However Much You’d Been Abused Into Affecting Public Humility.
- Lois McMaster Bujold
I Have Often Wished I Had Time To Cultivate Modesty… But I Am Too Busy Thinking About Myself.
- Edith Sitwell
Modesty Is The Citadel Of Beauty.
- Demades
In Peace There’s Nothing So Becomes A Man As Modest Stillness And Humility.
- William Shakespeare
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