William Temple Quotes

Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.

Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.

Humility is the forgetfulness of self.

Humility does not mean believing oneself to be inferior, but to be freed from self-importance. It is a state of natural simplicity which is in harmony with our true nature and allows us to taste the freshness of the present moment.

People with humility don't think less of themselves, they just think of themselves less.

I am someone without an ego.

The truest self-respect is not to think of self.

I try not to have too much of an ego. I'll do anything.

I have no self-centeredness or ego about being a movie star.

I'm not - I'm not a person looking for money. I have no political ambitions whatsoever. I don't seek power. I don't seek any kind of praise. I have no ego to fulfill.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself.

I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.

Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.

Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you.

It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.

Unconsciousness of self is not so much unselfishness as it is the mental ability to extinguish all thought of one's self - exactly as one turns out the light.

... do not spare me in anything -- let there be less and less of me in everything.

Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.

I don't really have an ego. I'm not that bothered.

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons. Secure in its reality, the self is neither better nor worse, bigger nor smaller, than anything else in the universe. It is ? is nothing, yet at the same time one with everything. It is in this sense that humility is absolute self-effacement.

Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.

The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.

Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open.

It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.

Being humble is cooler than being famous.