Hamza Yusuf Quotes

I think I've certainly learned a lot of lessons in humility and continue to work on that part of myself.

I better be humble. I'm always checking myself.

We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.

Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.

I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.

There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.

In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.

You need to put what you learn into practice and do it over and over again until it's a habit. I always say, 'Seeing is not believing. Doing is believing.' There is a lot to learn about fitness, nutrition and emotions, but once you do, you can master them instead of them mastering you.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

I work on myself daily to be a better person. When I react in a negative way to somebody, I sit back and think about why I did it, so I'm always working on myself, and my music is the same.

I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.

I believe that the plight of life and all existence is to master one's self, you know, one day at a time.

The ego is there, but I'm learning to channel it.

You cannot lead others until you have first learned to lead yourself.

Everybody needs to lower his ego.

Practice self-awareness, self-evaluation, and self-improvement. If we are aware that our manners - language, behavior, and actions - are measured against our values and principles, we are able to more easily embody the philosophy, leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do.

It is hard to improve someone as a player, but is easier to help someone become a better person.

Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily solicitude in cherishing as exotic fruits and flowers; the vices and passions (which I am afraid are the natural product of the soil) demand perpetual weeding. Add to this the search after knowledge. . . and the longest life is too short.

If you wish to succeed in managing and controlling others - learn to manage and control yourself.

It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.

The day you become humble is the day you become successful.

‎"Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behavior

New habits make new horizons. Silently and imperceptibly you are forming habits which will ultimately determine the degree of your happiness and success. Closely guard the quality of your thoughts, that they may lead to right habits and thence to right living. Recognize and use such supreme qualities as courage, faith, humility, loyalty, temperance, and integrity.

Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

You have to build systems to protect against your lesser self.