Greg Mortenson Quotes

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

Work at being a humble person.

I think we were always humble.

Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

Yes, I am proud, and very humble too.

Being humble matters.

Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.

There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

Only humility can take you places.

A little humility goes a long way.

Self-deprecation is not the answer to humility.

It's important to stay humble.

I was raised to always be humble.

I know it's important to stay humble.

You don't have to be humbled to be humble.

I think humility - which I think is a very good value to adopt - is basically an extension of understanding your own ignorance.

I was taught to be respectful and humble as a boy, and especially not arrogant.

Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.

Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.

Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.

It is the duty of a great person so to demean himself, as that whatever endowments he may have, he may appear to value himself upon no qualities but such as any man may arrive at.