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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it well, ever loses his self-respect.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950The Doctor’s Dilemma (1911), Preface
- Work
He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.
William Hazlitt1778–1830The Plain Speaker (1826)
Everyone has his vanity, and each one’s vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.
Fernando Pessoa1888–1935The Book of Disquiet
Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons.
Dag Hammarskjöld1905–1961Vägmärken · Markings (1963), 29 July 1959
- Virtue
Idleness and Pride Tax with a heavier Hand than Kings and Parliaments; If we can get rid of the former we may easily bear the Latter.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Letter to Charles Thomson, 11 July 1765
- Work
Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying. Pilots generally take pride in a good landing, not in getting out of the vehicle.
Neil Armstrong1930–2012On his famous moonwalk, as quoted in In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969 (2007) by Francis French and Colin Burgess
‘There is none like to me!’ says the Cub in the pride of his earliest kill;
But the jungle is large and the Cub he is small. Let him think and be still.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936The Jungle Book (1894), Kaa’s hunting.In context
Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work worthy the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.
Charles Darwin1809–1882“Notebook C” (1838), pp. 196–197
- Science
And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worth while, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: “I served in the United States Navy.”
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Remarks at the U.S. Naval Academy (1 August 1963), Public Papers of the Presidents 321, p. 620
- America
Superior people are only those who let it be discovered by others; the need to make it evident forfeits the very virtue they aspire to.
SHSydney J. Harris1917–1986Pieces of Eight (1982)
- Character
Most People dislike Vanity in others whatever Share they have of it themselves.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790The Autobiography (1818), Part I, p. 2
The most ignorant are the most conceited.
Horace Mann1796–1859Lectures on Education (1855), Lecture 6
- Intelligence
Narcissism comes not out of self-love but out of self-hatred.
Audre Lorde1934–1992Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984), “Sexism: An American Disease in Blackface”, p. 62
Whatever may be the reason, we all do warmly respect humility — in other people.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936The Defendant (1901)
- Comedy
It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.
Vladimir Putinborn 1952A plea for caution from Russia, The New York Times, (12 September 2013) / Also published in the Guardian (12 September 2013)
- Politics