"Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel."

Humility, Flattery, Royalty

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"Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel."

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"It's no shame in reaching second or third base if you aimed for first base."

Stephen Richards, British Author

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"As long as man has pride, he will appear unattractive and no one will be attracted to him. He may have a handsome face, his pride makes him unattractive."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"From the moment you realize, 'I am the most worthless person in this world'; you become valuable."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"But the Egotist is stuck somewhere between his hidden triad of pride, fear, and insecurity; he is forever fighting to prove himself, instigating battles the Humbleman has unwittingly conquered, already sealed some time ago. Yes, the day he finally accepts face-to-face such an irony as humility - the irony that humility is indeed the mother of giants, that great men, having life so large, as needed, can afford to appear small - the world will then know peace."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"If a person does five samayiks (introspective meditation) he will say, 'I did five'- and this is how he will taste the sweetness of the subtle-pride of doership. Actually what he should say is, 'it was due to God's grace that I was able to do five samayik'. He should not taste the sweetness of subtle pride of doership."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"Great people do not struggle for their position."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"A person who is humble would never be abusive or selfish, so don't abuse yourself or withhold self-love or self-care."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"The master demon Screwtape identifies elitist humanity's tendency toward "an ingrained habit of belittling anything that concerns the great mass of their fellow men."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Humility puts others first because "first" takes on new meaning through the practice of humility."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Humility is not thinking less of myself, but thinking about myself less."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?"

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"In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable."

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"I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist."

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"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."

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"Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life."

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"The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it."

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"Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor."

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"Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense."

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"Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness."

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"Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke."

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