Quote by Yiddish Proverb

Do not make yourself so big, you are not so small.

Do not make yourself so big, you are not so small.

Summary

This quote suggests that individuals should have a balanced perspective of themselves. It advises against overestimating one's importance, reminding us not to become arrogant or overly inflated with pride. At the same time, it also discourages underestimating oneself or diminishing one's worth. The quote highlights the importance of holding a realistic and humble self-image, emphasizing that one should neither undervalue nor overvalue their own abilities and significance. It serves as a reminder to strike a healthy balance and avoid extremes in self-perception.

Topics

Humility

By Yiddish Proverb

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.

Saints

The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except

The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Love Beds Repose

It is not doing the things we like to do, liking the thing w

It is not doing the things we like to do, liking the thing we have to do that makes life blessed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, t

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

Charles Horton Cooley

He Freud often said three things were impossible to fulfill

He Freud often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Love

From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - th

From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - the gods write their signature in our entrails

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

Time

Nothing lasts forever, Neither bad nor good

Nothing lasts forever, Neither bad nor good

Vijay Dhameliya

Happiness Inspirational Life Lessons

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

William Hazlitt

Love

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

Knowledge

People who know me know I have a sense of humor that can rea

People who know me know I have a sense of humor that can really push the envelope.

Humor

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession a

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

Beauty Society Culture Body Image Weight Eating Disorders Images