humility Quotes

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.