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  Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.
 ~humility quotes by Dwight Morrow

  A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
 ~inspirational sayings about Humility quotes by Benjamin Franklin

  Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
 ~humility quotes by Oliver Herford

  Modesty: The art of encouraging people to find out for themselves how wonderful you are.
 ~famous quotes about Humility by Source Unknown

  None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
 ~humility sayings by Benjamin Whichcote

  It wasn't until quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say I don't know!
 ~humility quotes by Somerset Maugham

  It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
 ~inspirational sayings about Humility quotes by Author Unknown

  Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
 ~humility quotes by Wilson Mizner

  If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.
 ~famous quotes about Humility by Ted Turner

  There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a BILLION people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you.
 ~humility sayings by A. Whitney Brown, The Big Picture

  When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.
 ~humility quotes by Mary H. Waldrip

  Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods.
 ~inspirational sayings about Humility quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
 ~humility quotes by Laurence J. Peter

  Genuine ignorance is... profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.
 ~famous quotes about Ignorance by John Dewey

  Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
 ~humility sayings by Friedrich Nietzsche

   Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this: That you are dreadfully like other people.
 ~humility quotes by James Russell Lowell, Democracy Address, Birmingham, England, 6 October 1884

   It's not the bullet with my name on it that worries me. It's the one that says To whom it may concern.
 ~good sayings about Violence by Anonymous Belfast resident, quoted in London Guardian, 1991

   I have my own little world, but it's okay - they know me here.
 ~humility quotes by Author Unknown

   Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
 ~motivational quotes about Carpe Diem sayings by Dion Boucicault

   [An intellectual] is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
 ~humility sayings by John Chesson

   Books are embalmed minds.
 ~humility quotes by Bovee

   America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.
 ~good sayings about America by Laurence J. Peter

   We loved with a love that was more than love
 ~humility quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

   I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
 ~motivational quotes about Conformity sayings by John Cage

   Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.
 ~humility sayings by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

   Recklessness is a species of crime and should be so regarded on our streets and highways.
 ~humility quotes by Marlen E. Pew

   Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic
 ~good sayings about Memorial Day by John A. Logan

   When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
 ~humility quotes by Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1711

   Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.
 ~motivational quotes about Self-Discovery sayings by Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun

   How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder.... But a state or nation may kill as many as they please, and it is not murder. It is just, necessary, commendable, and right. Only get people enough to agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of human beings is perfectly innocent. But how many does it take?
 ~humility sayings by Adin Ballou, The Non-Resistant, 5 February 1845

   Whose indomitable spirit changed the face of the earth for us
 ~humility quotes by Edmund Arthur Helps

   Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
 ~good sayings about Emotions by Mark Twain

   It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again...who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat
 ~humility quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

   All philosophy in two words, - sustain and abstain.
 ~motivational quotes about Wise Words sayings by Epictetus

   Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.
 ~humility sayings by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

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