Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

I don't like false modesty.

Humility is truth.

If you're calling yourself a maverick and you're not Dirk Nowitzki, then you are probably not one. In fact, this rule applies to anyone declaring themselves a 'God-fearing Christian' or a 'Man of the people.'

I never want to be pretentious.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

What I'm bringing to the pop table is that I'm not pretentious.

I'd never want to do something just for the show of it.

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

If you're a humble person, and you walk in, and you start talking, people are going to be able to tell. You can't fake it.

Strangers who have seen Shaw face to face are wont to report their surprise at his gentleness and consideration, his willingness to listen and his complete lack of pose.

True worth is in being, not seeming- In doing, each day that goes by, Some little good, not in the dreaming Of great things to do by and by. For whatever men say in their blindness, And spite of the fancies of youth, There's nothing so kingly as kindness, And nothing so royal as truth.

How majestic is naturalness. I have never met a man whom I really considered a great man who was not always natural and simple. Affectation is inevitably the mark of one not sure of himself.

It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.

Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

Do not try to seem wise to others.

I live in the same house I’ve lived in for 25 years. I haven’t gone off and bought mansions, you know, even though my subject is living… living in a mansion wouldn’t do for my readers. I have to keep my credibility alive with my readers, so we’re in the same place. I just make that place nicer and nicer. And… and that’s a secret. And people don’t know that. People think, oh, she lives in this fabulous place, it’s the same old place. It started out like a farm, it got to be a farmette, then it got to be an estatelet. I built a wall, it helped a lot. But it’s the same place, the same grounded nature.

True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.

When I started out in public life there used to be a saying we'd hear from time to time, that every man who runs for public office will claim that he was born in a log cabin he built with his own hands. Well, my mother knew better. And she made sure I did too.

Do the truth quietly without display.

I never brag, how real i keep it, cause thats the best secret.

The world needs you. It doesn't need you at a party having read a book about how to appear smart at parties - these books exist, and they're tempting - but resist falling into that trap. The world needs you at the party starting real conversations, saying, 'I don't know,' and being kind.

The Truth never flaunted a sign.

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.

Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.