Confucius Quotes

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

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.

Being humble matters.

Work at being a humble person.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.

A little humility goes a long way.

Humility is important.

I know it's important to stay humble.

Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.

Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love

He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.

I think we were always humble.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

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 think it's important to come from a humble place.

The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

… his [Charles Evans Hughes’] greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man. I think it was one of the strongest things about [Theodore] Roosevelt. He never tried to minimize what other people did and often exaggerated it..

Only humility can take you places.

I know that I am not entitled to anything, and when somebody thinks they are, that's a step in the wrong direction.

I don't give much thought to individual awards.