Albert Camus 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.

He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Maybe at the same time as I'm more confident today, I'm also more humble.

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.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

Everybody needs to lower his ego.

I'm not a perfect human being by any stretch of the imagination. But there is always this little voice inside of me that keeps me where I know I need to be.

What else is there for me to conquer? Hopefully my ego.

Force yourself to be humble, until it becomes second nature. Then it will be an unconscious activity.

I learned that it is better, a thousandfold , for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his pride and fancied innocence. I learned that he that will be a hero, will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work, is sure of his manhood. In nothing was my ideal lowered, or dimmed, or grown less precious; I only saw it too plainly, to set myself for a moment beside it.

Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that in thought, word, and deed you may as far as possible counteract them.

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

... learning humility is a prerequisite for grace.

The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

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

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

I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

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