Harvey Mackay Quotes

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success.

I'm going to be humble, I'm going to be accountable, do it with a smile on my face, make other people around me better.

To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.

We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.

Humility is what makes teams great. I've preached it for a long period of time.

It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

No one pays me to be nice.

I know that if I concentrate on making other people shine, I will shine. It is really about the other person, never about you.

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.

Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around.

If you want to reach the top, don't run over others. Likely, the only way you'll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

Be honest, be nice, be a flower not a weed.

I think being nice is more important than being clever.

My grandmother had a motto that you should never look down on people unless you are helping them up, and I think that's a very spiritual way of living.

Basketball is like life and life is like basketball. It's just a game. So lets play the best we can while we are still here with love, compassion, selflessness fairplay and supporting each other to be bigger and better human beings.

One of the magical things about kindness is that it's what we nerds call a 'happiness aggregator.' People confuse kindness with being nice. And they're very different. You can be nice and be passive. But kindness requires action.

I try to pride myself on being nice to everyone and not letting egos get in the way.

I don't have an overabundance of cocky attitude, because I'm collaborative.

You know what takes effort? Being kind. Being patient. Being respectful.

Make sure you look after people around you and it holds you in good stead going forward in terms of leadership. Look at all the best leaders and they have those qualities.

Talent is obviously very important, but it's also about how you approach the work and, you know, maybe this is a Canadian thing, but it's good to be nice.

As a captain, I have to be courageous but I also want to be nice off the pitch.

You really need to have a lot of empathy for the work you're doing and the people who you're ultimately trying to help, whether that's a business colleague, a boss, or, ultimately, the user of the software you're building.

No matter what quality you have, you have to listen to people, let people help you to be good.