Carl Paladino Quotes

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

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

My mom always said if you have a gift, it is absolutely not about you. So I don't get twisted and think for one second it's all about me.

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

He is the best of men who dislikes power.

I feel like I'm a nice character, and I don't have my own agenda.

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

When one is giving service for the advancement of humanity, when one is working without money and without price, with no hope of earthly reward, there comes a real, genuine joy into the human heart.

Nothing has been given to me.

I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

At my funeral, if one said, 'Nick was a generous person,' trust me I won't be doing cartwheels in my coffin. Recognition from people is never and never will be a goal. Some people strive for that respect or honor. Living a life to just reach for the position and status is vanity and sin.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

If I make a new bag I love, I don't keep it.

He will have true glory who despises it.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

I will serve the people in a very humble way.

A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

We have to humble ourselves and the way you do that is by serving other people.

I don't have an ego that makes me believe the world revolves around me. I am not self-absorbed.

I know that some of the spiritual beliefs that I have are that if I come from a place of love, and I try to get out of my ego and my desire to want more and be selfish in any shape or form, then whatever I'm doing is not good.