Thomas Brooks Quotes

If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.

I never dwell on what I've personally achieved.

I don't see myself as a world-class player.

If I started thinking too much about how influential I've been, then I'd be more of a turd than I already am.

I have as big of an ego as it gets, but I have, stunningly, a lot of humility considering some of the accomplishments I've had.

Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought.

Some people think humility is thinking lowly of yourself. Some people think it's not thinking about yourself. But, to me, the best definition of humility is radical self-awareness from a distance, seeing themselves from a distance and saying, what's my problem?

"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.

It's always an honor to be ranked high, but whatever is said about you, you take it and then take a realistic look at yourself and who you are.

I definitely don't think of myself as being an influence.

I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

People hear that and say I'm being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I'm doing and what I'm doing is channeling.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life.

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

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

I'm not good at watching myself.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

I have to humble myself.

It is true that I have been studying both humility and pride for many years for the purpose of weakening pride in my own life and cultivating humility by the grace of God.

For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.

I don't find it hard to stay humble.

I don't think that I'm that sophisticated. Maybe I'm not aware of it, I don't know.