I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
Mahatma GandhiI actually don’t want a throne at all, because I don’t view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.
Lady GagaKeep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Khalil GibranThe minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.
Desmond TutuI don’t think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world’s face. That’s all private.
Kevin HartI don’t believe I’ll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn’t go to Harvard.
Lyndon B. JohnsonThe infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
VoltaireIn a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.
Wayne DyerIs pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Alexander PopeThe thing about Jiu Jitsu is it is also not for everybody. It can be very humiliating and humbling. If you have a hard time dealing with the fact that someone smaller than you may be able to tap you out, it is going to be difficult.
Jocko WillinkI do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you’re well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they’re used to seeing me walking around, so I don’t think I’m a very big deal.
J. K. RowlingI was the one who took football off the back pages and put it on to page one.
George BestNo man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.
Gilbert K. ChestertonAmericans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We’ve been so busy damning ourselves for years. We’ve done it all, and yet we don’t take credit for it.
Ray BradburyIf anyone remembers me, it’s about my hard work.
Sunil ChhetriA lot was accomplished in my mixtape career. But I still needed a few things: I needed to be recognized. I need to have radio. I need to have a real retail machine that can get us where we need to get that.
Nipsey HussleThink not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.
Charles SpurgeonIt is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
EpictetusThe deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.
Stephen CoveyI’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.
Joel OsteenA man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. LewisHumble people ask for help.
Joyce MeyerI’ve been talked about by a lot better people than the general public.
Abby Lee MillerDon’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
Abraham LincolnPower is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
Margaret ThatcherLook folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It’s you. Instead of vilifying you, we should be thanking you. We owe you.
Joe BidenWe learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.
Michelle ObamaThe superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
ConfuciusI never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.
LeBron JamesI haven’t written my own epitaph, and I’m not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it will point people not to me, but to the One I served.
Billy GrahamI know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life… I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.
Charles DickensBut I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.
Stephen KingI don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.
Amy WinehouseI have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo GalileiPeople in Ethiopia, the Sudan, etc., don’t know Audrey Hepburn, but they recognize the name UNICEF. When they see UNICEF, their faces light up, because they know that something is happening. In the Sudan, for example, they call a water pump ‚UNICEF.‘
Audrey HepburnOur posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.
Carl SaganThe faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.
ConfuciusThe arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
Edmund BurkeI desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.
Charles SpurgeonI believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There’s the teaching that we’re supposed to be poor to show that we’re humble. I don’t buy that. I think we’re supposed to be leaders. We’re supposed to excel.
Joel OsteenA fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William ShakespeareThe true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.
Ludwig van BeethovenSay not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘
Khalil GibranI am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I’m quite good.
Jurgen KloppBlessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
Henry KissingerNo one but a fool is always right.
David HareI never say I am a guru.
Paulo CoelhoWhat humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.
Maya AngelouHaving other comedians complimenting my work is the biggest accolade that I can get.
Kevin HartI never said I was the best in anything. I never said I’m an icon. The world decides all of that.
Bad BunnyThere was my name up in lights. I said, ‚God, somebody’s made a mistake.‘ But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, ‚Remember, you’re not a star.‘ Yet there it was up in lights.
Marilyn MonroeThe fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.
Wayne DyerDo you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
Blaise PascalBe smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
Alexander Graham BellTell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
A. P. J. Abdul KalamScrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.
Richard M. NixonThere’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.
Joyce MeyerIt’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.
Muhammad AliGreat men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.
Henry David Thoreau