as common as a unicorn

"I never try to blow out someone else's candle to make mine brighter."
- Chelsea Handler

humility

"The definition of an educated person is knowing how little they know."
- Socrates [469 BC - 399 BC]

or ever

"You should not be arrogant by something you didn't create."
- Bono

"Brave is he, who possessing strength displays it not, and lives in humble ways."
- Guru I. Majh Rag

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"The rich man was not in Hell because he was rich, but because he was proud. And the poor man was in Heaven not because he was poor, but because he was humble."
- Sentiments attributed to St. Augustine

ego

"Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall."
- King James Bible, Proverbs 16:18

humility

Arriving at the Academy Awards, February 25, 2007

"Steve had a great setback in his life when he lost control of Apple in 1985. That experience of loss, that punch in the nose gave him a sense of humility and prepared him better for the battles ahead [he returned to Apple in 1997]."
- Al Gore, who is an Apple Board Member, on Steve Jobs.