Lao Tzu Quotes

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.

I'm not the type of guy who wants the credit.

It's always strange to get an honor from people who are the ones that should be honored.

When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.

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

I don't value prizes of any sort.

Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator.

Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

A wise person would never be eager to ask for acknowledgment of his or her contribution.

… 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..

I feel a bit uncomfortable talking about awards.

I'm not complaining if my work is getting more recognition than me.

It would be great to be recognised for my achievements, but Sports Personality isn't about that.

Do me a favor and don't make me out to be no hero.

I have never been one to seek or want attention or admiration or a pat on the back for what I've done.

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

She looked at him in wonder. "Do people think of me like that? I only did what anybody could have done." "That's as it may be," he replied. "The fact is, that you did it.

Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

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

There are only so many times I can say, 'I owe it to my offensive linemen,' or, 'The credit should go to my teammates,' before it becomes run down.

I think we were always humble.