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| Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially he whose name is a burden to him, who has need of an asylum (room). |
| Victor Hugo |
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| Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad. |
| John Ruskin |
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| Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave. |
| Wilson Mizner |
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| Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps. |
| Mahatma Gandhi |
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| If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. |
| Isaac Newton |
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| If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. |
| Isaac Newton |
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| Like a man travelling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, though in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them. |
| Benjamin Franklin |
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| The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it |
| Edgar Watson Howe |
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