Humility is the mother of all virtues.

The person who is truly effective has the humility and reverence to recognize his own perceptual limitations and to appreciate the rich resources available through interactions with the hearts and minds of other human beings. That person values the differences because those differences add to his knowledge, to his understanding of reality. When we're left to our own experiences, we constantly suffer from a shortage of data.

Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king.

You can have successful teams where people hate but deeply respect each other; the opposite (love but not respect among team members) is a recipe for disaster.

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. It heightens all the virtues which it accompanies; like the shades in paintings, it raises and rounds every figure, and makes the colours more beautiful, though not so glaring as they would be without it.

When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway,The post of honor is a private station.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.

Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

As a white candle In a holy place, So is the beauty Of an aged face.