Patrick Lencioni Quotes

If there is one thing I have learned on this incredible journey we call life, it is this: the sign of a truly successful individual is humility.

Only humility can take you places.

I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self.

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

As a person, I am still grounded and humble.

Humility is important.

You've gotta be humble. That's what I've been throughout my whole career.

I'm just happy to know that no part of me thinks that I made it. Everything in me says you need to keep going, keep working.

I try my best to keep my feet on the floor and stay humble and let my ability do the talking.

Being humbled is a good thing.

I always want to just stay humble, and I always want to keep climbing.

Yes, I have done a few things like always, worked immensely hard, always respected people, admired good work, and never let success blow my top off; probably this has worked in my favour.

Humility is a super-important factor in all of our lives, and I try to remind myself every evening in front of the mirror, 'Just calm down.'

There's times when you see people climbing and getting success and you start to see, oh, they're starting to really change. So I always just make the effort to be as humble and grateful as possible.

Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.

If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.

I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

An actor should always let humility outweigh ambition.

In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too.