Quotes courtesy of Henrik Edberg/Positivity Blog
“In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.”
Winston Churchill
“The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.”
Mignon McLaughlin
“If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, “He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.”
Epictetus
“Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.”
Adlai Stevenson
“Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.”
Ann Landers
“I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.”
Carl Jung
“A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.”
Albert Einstein
“There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.”
Laurence J. Peter
“Just remember, when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do.”
Sidney Sheldon
“Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware. The cosmic banana peel is suddenly going to appear underfoot to make sure you don’t take it all too seriously, that you don’t fill up on junk food.”
Anne Lamott
“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
Michel de Montaigne
“Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.”
Thomas Merton
“A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.”
Alexander Pope
“Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.”
St. Vincent de Paul
“With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.”
Ezra Taft Benson
“Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.”
Madeleine L’Engle
