Ted Turner Quotes

Humility is a super-important factor in all of our lives, and I try to remind myself every evening in front of the mirror, 'Just calm down.'

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

Symbolically, what the rabbis say is that at Passover, what we have to do is try to get rid of our hot air - our pride, our feeling that we are the most important people in the whole entire world and that everything should revolve round us.

I'm interested in listening to the people who walk in the door. If your ego and your accomplishments stop you from listening, then they've taught you nothing.

My story was that I was egotistical, arrogant, and an absolute jerk to everyone who brags about everything - and I will - but I've been very fortunate to take everything and learn from it.

Being humbled is a good thing.

If I see someone that's too arrogant, that's not how I was raised.

Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them.

Humility is truth.

A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics.

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

Humility is the armour that you clothe yourself with throughout your life. We demean each other rather than lift up ourselves.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

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.

I don't find it hard to stay humble.

If we learn not humility, we learn nothing.

I think I'm probably one of the worst directors around, but I do have an interest in my fellow man.

It's not that hard to stay grounded. It's the way I was brought up.

Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

First of all, I'm no better than the next person.

I was never able to master the virtue of humility but I was able to master the appearance of humility.

Self-deprecation is not the answer to humility.