Humility Quotes

"Many go out for wool and come home shorn themselves." "The sooner we become less impressed with our life, our accomplishments, our career, our relationships, the prospects in front of us—the sooner we become less impressed and more involved with these things—the sooner we get better at them." "The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem." "Be able to notice when you're wrong and correct it, because either you have the fastest reflexes known to man, or you don't." "The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world." "Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom" "No man however great is greater than his people. No one ever wins a victory single-handed" "Humility is the proper estimate of oneself." "Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go." "Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy that does not laugh, and the greatness that does not bow before children" "A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit" "The first step to leadership is servanthood" "To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals is courtesy, to inferiors nobleness" "A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle" "One of my biggest Achilles' heels has been my ego" "He that speaks much is much mistaken." "Humility brings beauty to the soul." "To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself." "You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you" "The thing about seeing the big picture and being self-aware is knowing that it’s not about you. It’s about the big picture"