Neal Shusterman Quotes

The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.

Believe that others are better than you in the debths of their soul, although outwardly you may appear better than they.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

He who knows himself best esteems himself least.

I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not.

Personality-wise, I like to avoid putting my pride on parade.

Fame didn't change me.

Always thinking that you're not very good is far better than being cocky.

He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

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.

You have to think you're the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you're not.

You can't take yourself too seriously. Like, yeah, I'm doin' all that, but still I don't feel like I've done anything, really. I feel blessed 'cause I'm doin' all these things, but I'm not satisfied. I still have that feeling like, "Who am I? Who am I to have an ego? Who am I to change up and act like some Hollywood character?" Technically, in the grand scheme of things, I haven't done anything.

All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.

It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

Am I a hero? I really can't say, but yes.

If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.

Don't be a hero. Don't have an ego. Always question yourself and your ability. Don't ever feel that you are very good. The second you do, you are dead.

I'm not insecure, but I'm not like, 'Hi, I'm confident.'

Don't act like you've arrived when you're just receiving the invitation.

Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.

I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.

I am not a hero.