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A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.

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No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.

Good Leadership Leader Me

It ain't the heat, it's the humility.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Best Prayer Thankful Gratitude

Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success.

Success Journey People Humble

Live a life full of humility, gratitude, intellectual curiosity, and never stop learning.

Life Learning Live Gratitude

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

Saint Augustine

Men Pride Angels Devils Changed

There is nothing I can do to undo what I did. I can only say again how sorry I am to those I let down and then strive to go forward with a greater sense of humility and purpose, and with gratitude to those who stood with me during a very difficult chapter in my life.

Life Me I Am Gratitude

We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.

Success Respect Gratitude School

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Saint Augustine

Success Clouds You Wish

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A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish acts, which elevate and ennoble the most sacred message that has come to our world.

World Words Help Others True

There is beauty and humility in imperfection.

Guillermo del Toro

Beauty Imperfection

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

Charles Spurgeon

Man Peace Revenge Thought

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

Teacher Me Sports Great

Cheerfully fessing up to our failures turns crazy mind off, humility and compassion on. I learned this in a karate dojo that had a strange tradition. Everyone there loved recounting failure stories, and after an evening of smacking one another, we'd sit and have a beer while the students swapped tales of martial arts disaster.

Failure Evening Tradition Loved

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

Relationship Man Great Understanding

Great leaders don't need to act tough. Their confidence and humility serve to underscore their toughness.

Confidence Great Tough Need

Only a person who has passed through the gate of humility can ascend to the heights of the spirit.

Heights Person Spirit Only

I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.

George Hickenlooper

Success Humble Be Humble Always

If you aren't humble, whatever empathy you claim is false and probably results from some arrogance or the desire to control. But true empathy is rooted in humility and the understanding that there are many people with as much to contribute in life as you.

Life People Humble You

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

Beauty Better True Without

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

Pride Real Us Makes Artificial

With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.

Ezra Taft Benson

Wisdom Blessings Pride Come

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

Wife Man Sleep Eating

To most people, paranoia carries a negative connotation. I believe it is one of the most valuable attributes a leader can have. It is about self-reflection and having the courage, humility, and discipline to constantly ask uncomfortable questions that can potentially poke holes in your strategy and challenge your conventional thinking.

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A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.

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