Alija Izetbegovic Quotes

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

At my funeral, if one said, 'Nick was a generous person,' trust me I won't be doing cartwheels in my coffin. Recognition from people is never and never will be a goal. Some people strive for that respect or honor. Living a life to just reach for the position and status is vanity and sin.

The feeling of being accepted and acknowledgement and recognition and fame - I'm vain like everybody else. The feeling of achievement that I've helped the poor or somebody in need far outweighs the money.

The extraordinary thing about my mother, she's so modest about me.

A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

Humility is the armour that you clothe yourself with throughout your life. We demean each other rather than lift up ourselves.

I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation.

Symbolically, what the rabbis say is that at Passover, what we have to do is try to get rid of our hot air - our pride, our feeling that we are the most important people in the whole entire world and that everything should revolve round us.

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

For some reason for me, and a lot of people, it's so hard to accept help even when it's from your closest friends.

There are times we are givers, but others time we have to let others give to us.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you're above everybody else.

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

My message to the world is to surrender your ego: try not to think that you are not as fortunate as some people or inferior or not as good as someone else.

It's important to stay humble.

I'm the nicest kid. I'm not a big head.

I know it's important to stay humble.

When you have a lot of talent, you don't necessarily have to be gracious and consider everyone.

Even a poor man doesn't ask alms unless he sees you have the ability to give.

There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.