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  It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
 ~quotes on humility by Author Unknown

  Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.
 ~inspirational sayings about Humility quotes by Lord Chesterfield

  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.
 ~humility quotes by John Dewey

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

  It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
 ~humility sayings by Andrew J. Holmes, Wisdom in Small Doses

  Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.
 ~quotes on humility by Eric Hoffer, The True Believer, 1951

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

  Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.
 ~humility quotes by Abba Eban

  It is always the secure who are humble.
 ~famous quotes about Humility by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
 ~humility sayings by François Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

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

  He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
 ~inspirational sayings about Humility quotes by George Eliot (Marian Evans Cross), Adam Bede, 1859

  Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
 ~humility quotes by Barry Switzer

  Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
 ~famous quotes about Humility by Friedrich Nietzsche

  A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
 ~humility sayings by Benjamin Franklin

   The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I've ever seen that I didn't have to clean.
 ~quotes on humility by Erma Bombeck

   I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.
 ~good sayings about Celebrity by Oscar Levant

   Reading about baseball is a lot more interesting than reading about chess, but you have to wonder: Don't any of these guys ever go fishing?
 ~humility quotes by Dave Shiflett, quoted in Houston Chronicle, 29 April 1990

   I think my favorite sport in the Olympics is the one in which you make your way through the snow, you stop, you shoot a gun, and then you continue on. In most of the world, it is known as the biathlon, except in New York City, where it is known as winter.
 ~motivational quotes about Skiing sayings by Michael Ventre, L.A. Daily News

   Death is patiently making my mask as I sleep. Each morning I awake to discover in the corners of my eyes the small tears of his wax.
 ~humility sayings by Philip Dow

   A man of courage never wants weapons.
 ~quotes on humility by Author Unknown

   The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.
 ~good sayings about Society by Russell Baker, New York Times, 1 May 1969

   The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
 ~humility quotes by Annie Dillard

   Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.
 ~motivational quotes about Perfection sayings by Ed Howe

   Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.
 ~humility sayings by Frank A. Clark

   A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
 ~quotes on humility by Lana Turner

   Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.
 ~good sayings about Music by Henry David Thoreau

   What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it
 ~humility quotes by Hubert H. Humphrey

   When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
 ~motivational quotes about Grief sayings by Kahlil Gibran

   Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
 ~humility sayings by John Quincy Adams

   Janie's a pretty typical teenager - angry, insecure, confused. I wish I could tell her that's all going to pass, but I don't want to lie to her.
 ~quotes on humility by Alan Ball, American Beauty, 1999

   A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
 ~good sayings about Women by Edna Ferber

   I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church.
 ~humility quotes by Robin Williams, 1982

   To be a genuine individualist requires a great deal of strength and courage. It is never easy to chart new territory, to cross new frontiers, or to introduce subtle shadings to an established color.
 ~motivational quotes about Conformity sayings by Toller Cranston

   History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time.
 ~humility sayings by Henry Miller, Plexus

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