The Master said, "A man should say, I am not concerned that I have no place, I am concerned how I may fit myself for one. I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known."
子曰、不患無位、患所以立、不患莫己知、求爲可知也。
Analects 4.14
The same idea in other traditions
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
When pride cometh, then cometh shame; But with the lowly is wisdom.
Let none deceive another, nor look down on anyone anywhere. Though provoked or aggrieved, let them not wish pain on each other.
Call everyone exalted; no one seems lowly. The One Lord has fashioned the vessels, and His One Light pervades the three worlds.
And the servants of (Allah) Most Gracious are those who walk on the earth in humility, and when the ignorant address them, they say, "Peace!";
By humility he will acquire freedom from self-conceit; thereby he will become of a kind and meek disposition, and avoid the eight kinds of pride.
Lay not reproach at the drunkard’s door / Oh Fanatic, thou that art pure of soul; / Not thine on the page of life to enrol / The faults of others! Or less or more / I have swerved from my path—keep thou to thine own! / For every man when he reaches the goal / Shall reap the harvest his hands have sown. …