Quotes about Humility
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.
— John Maxwell
If you are your only source of information and ideas, you're in trouble.
— John Maxwell
Teachability is an attitude of wanting to learn from every experience and every person.
— John Maxwell
The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.
— John Maxwell
Only secure leaders exhibit servanthood.
— John Maxwell
Humility is not denying your strengths. Humility is being honest about your weaknesses. All of us are a bundle of both great strengths and great weaknesses and humility is being able to be honest about both.
— John Maxwell
The number-one reason most people lose arguments is not because they're wrong; it's because they don't know when to quit.
— John Maxwell
If you should observe an occasion to give your officers and friends a little more praise than is their due, and confess more fault than you justly be charged with, you will only become the sooner for it, a great captain. Criticizing and censuring almost everyone you have to do with, will diminish friends, increase enemies, and hereby hurt you affairs.
— John Maxwell
Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly bigger man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
— John Maxwell
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.
— John Maxwell
Success leads to the greatest failure, which is pride. Failure leads to the greatest success, which is humility and learning.
— John Maxwell
Our goal should be to treat others better than they treat us.
— John Maxwell