Humility : (124)

" There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am. " - Curtis Sittenfeld

" The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. " - Aesop

" Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was definitely not encouraged, and pleasure or pride would be punishable by death. " - Hugh Laurie

" It’s very humbling to move around from team to team. It shows how fast you can be out of the loop. " - Peyton Hillis

" Success comes to you with luck and a lot of hard work, but it doesn’t give you the right to be any better than anybody else. " - Nick Nolte

" I think of myself as a shy, modest, relatively unassuming person. " - John Landgraf

" When you talk of being humble, Gurdas Maan is the most humble person. He has a very pure nature. " - Diljit Dosanjh

" The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destroy that is really healthy. " - James Van Der Beek

" People say to me, ‘You’re a genius; you’re great.’ I don’t know if I’ll ever feel that way about myself. Some things, I feel like, are better left for other people to say, and I’m just not into, like, tooting my own horn or bragging or anything. " - Poo Bear

" I hated prog rock; to me, it was the ultimate expression of a bloated sense of self-importance and mindless self-indulgence. " - Eric Carmen