Pastel Horizon by Dan Sutherland

Humility: Freedom from false pride or arrogance. Having an awareness of one's own shortcomings and others' strengths.

• Since all men are created equal, we could not possibly be better or worse than anybody else; we are simply at different levels of awareness and/or intellect…O.P. Maximus

• Our best thoughts come from others…Ralph Waldo Emerson

• A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying that he is wiser today than he was yesterday…Alexander Pope

• Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right… Ezra Taft Benson

• Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts.  It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all…William Temple

• Without humility there can be no humanity…John Buchan

• No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong…Albert Einstein

• What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself… Abraham Lincoln

• I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but my chief duty is to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble…Helen Keller

• A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle…Benjamin Franklin

• True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes…Edward Frederick Halifax

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