{"topic":"humility","quotes":[{"quote":"He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.","author":"Confucius"},{"quote":"The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.","author":"Confucius"},{"quote":"The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.","author":"Confucius"},{"quote":"Modesty is the citadel of beauty.","author":"Demades"},{"quote":"I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.","author":"Edith Sitwell"},{"quote":"Humility is no substitute for a good personality.","author":"Fran Lebowitz"},{"quote":"Life is a long lesson in humility.","author":"James M. Barrie"},{"quote":"The loss of one's dignified bearing is often sudden.","author":"Jerry Van Amerongen"},{"quote":"Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.","author":"Jules Renard"},{"quote":"In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?","author":"Kanye West"},{"quote":"You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.","author":"Lois McMaster Bujold"},{"quote":"Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.","author":"Madam Guizot"},{"quote":"Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.","author":"Mark Twain"},{"quote":"I am no more humble than my talents require.","author":"Oscar Levant"},{"quote":"If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.","author":"Ted Turner"},{"quote":"It well becomes a young man to be modest.","author":"Titus Maccius Plautus"},{"quote":"In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.","author":"William Shakespeare"}]}