If you pair excellence with humility, people not only won't run over you, they will respect you.

If you could kick the person responsible for most of your troubles, you wouldn't be able to sit down for weeks.

Only a leader who has followed well knows how to lead others well. Good leadership requires an understanding of the world that followers live in. Connecting with your people becomes possible because you have walked in their shoes. You know what it means to be under authority and thus have a better sense of how authority should be exercised. In contrast, leaders who have never followed well or submitted to authority tend to be prideful, unrealistic, rigid, and autocratic. "Civilization

To work together, we must have all three. Generosity: giving up resources for the whole. Humility: giving up your own importance, position, and power. Integrity: truthfulness so that others can depend on your character.

The leader's prayer written by Pauline H. Peters: "God, when I am wrong, make me willing to change. When I am right, make me easy to live with. So strengthen me that the power of my example will far exceed the authority of my rank.

Isn't it strange how we must surrender being right in order to find what's right, how humility enables us to be authentic, vulnerable, trustworthy, and intimate with others? People are open to those who are open to them.

Success leads to the greatest failure, which is pride. Failure leads to the greatest success, which is humility and learning.

Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.

We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God's sake.

The ministers of Christ should possess refinement. All uncouth manners, attitudes and gestures should be discarded, and they should encourage in themselves humble dignity of bearing.

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.

Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.