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Laozi Philosopher
Humility

"All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power. If you want to govern the people, you must place yourself below them. If you want to lead the people, you must learn how to follow them. The Master is above the people, and no one feels oppressed. She goes ahead of the people, and no one feels manipulated. The whole world is grateful to her. Because she competes with no one, no one can compete with her."

Leadership Humility Grateful
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Nelson Mandela Political Leader
Humility

"There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status."

Simple Humility Humble
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Joseph Joubert Essayist, Moralist
Humility

"We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live."

Character Humility Echoes
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Paulo Coelho Writer
Humility

"If you accept such love with purity and humility, you will understand that Love is neither giving nor receiving -it is participating."

Giving Love Is Humility
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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
Humility

"Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover."

Science Humility Math
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Albert Einstein Physicist
Humility

"What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism."

Religious Humility Atheist
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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
Humility

"In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; . . . . Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height. On, on, you noblest English."

War Peace Humility
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Humility

"True humility is intelligent self-respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us mindful of the nobility God meant us to have. Yet it makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be."

Thinking Intelligent Humility
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Robert Kiyosaki Businessman, Author
Humility

"Humility is the first step towards learning. You can’t learn until you are humble enough to realize there is something for you to learn."

Humility Learning Humble
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Ingmar Bergman Film Director, Screenwriter
Humility

"To humiliate and be humiliated, I think, is a crucial element in our whole social structure. It's not only the artist I'm sorry for. It's just that I know exactly where he feels most humiliated."

Pride Humility Sorry
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