"...If humility does not precede all that..." - Quote by Saint Augustine

“To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.”

“If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.”

“It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.”

“The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.”

“What we don't know is much more than what we know.”

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.”

“Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.”

“Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.”

“I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.”