John Churton Collins Quotes

I don't see that anyone owes me anything for my service. I don't feel any sense of entitlement.

I was taught to be respectful and humble as a boy, and especially not arrogant.

It is more pleasant to remember others than to be remembered.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you're above everybody else.

No person in the world ever lost anything by being nice to me.

If I want to leave one thing here after I'm gone, it would be an incredible sense of humility.

I just want my daughter to be respectful and nice to people. I want her to understand the importance of being humble.

I always stay humble. I don't act funny towards nobody.

I was raised to always be humble.

When you have a lot of talent, you don't necessarily have to be gracious and consider everyone.

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.

I'm a random guy. I shake a hand and make a friend. I don't do egotistical things.

Just be nice to me while I am doing the scene; that is all. I don't want big cars, I don't want big hotel rooms.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

I think we were always humble.

It was ingrained in me to be gracious.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

I just want to be humble at all times.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.

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.

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.

As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.