"The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God."

Humility, Success, God, Discovery

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"Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

Humility, Right, Self

"Turn thy crown upside down! You need to feel how it is to kneel as those less fortunate than your noble deal."

Stanley Victor Paskavich, American Politician

Humility, Empathy, Nobility, Perspective

"Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

Humility, Kindness, Generosity, Secrecy

"A minister is coming down every generation nearer and nearer to the common level of the useful citizen - no oracle at all but a man of more than average moral instincts who if he knows anything knows how little he knows."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

Humility, Knowledge, Morality, Wisdom

"The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

Humility, Success, God, Discovery

"I don't know how to talk to you, Mrs. Huntingdon . . . you are only half a woman - your nature must be half human, half angelic. Such goodness overawes me; I don't know what to make of it."

Anne Bronte, British Novelist

Humility, Judgment, Relationship, Emotion

"It's easy to be humble when your life's prosper.Nothing could be denigrated when life's so poor."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Humility, Wisdom, Truth, Power, Regret

"I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

Humility, Arrogance, Universe, Secrets, Conceit

"All of yesterday's ballers are today's road sweepers."

Habeeb Akande, British Historian

Humility, Truth, Observation, Life

"Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime."

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

Humility, People, Christian, Poverty, Crime

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"The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men."

Man

"A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbours: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost: and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp."

Aging

"I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!"

Leadership

"Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left."

Nature

"When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences."

Poetry

"I should like to see any kind of a man distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of."

Relationship

"Thou oh my country hast thy foolish ways Too apt to purr at every stranger's praise."

Society

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Exlpore more Humility quotes

"Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self."

"Turn thy crown upside down! You need to feel how it is to kneel as those less fortunate than your noble deal."

"Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame."

"A minister is coming down every generation nearer and nearer to the common level of the useful citizen - no oracle at all but a man of more than average moral instincts who if he knows anything knows how little he knows."

"The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God."

"I don't know how to talk to you, Mrs. Huntingdon . . . you are only half a woman - your nature must be half human, half angelic. Such goodness overawes me; I don't know what to make of it."

"It's easy to be humble when your life's prosper.Nothing could be denigrated when life's so poor."

"I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit."

"All of yesterday's ballers are today's road sweepers."

"Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime."

Explore more quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it."

"Nature is in earnest when she makes a woman."

"Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned."

"The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men."

"A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbours: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost: and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp."

"I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!"

"Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left."

"When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences."

"I should like to see any kind of a man distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of."

"Thou oh my country hast thy foolish ways Too apt to purr at every stranger's praise."