Have we ever heard a leader, a player, an artist, a CEO, a parent, or a friend say something like Isaiah predicted we would hear? “For he saith: By the strength of my hand and by my wisdom I have done these things; for I am prudent… And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people; and as one gathereth eggs that are left have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped (2 Nephi 20:13-14).”
When a person attempts to claim ownership of success and even boasts of their strengths and accomplishments they leave out the one being that gave it all to them.
And in nothing doth man offend God, or against none is his wrath kindled, save those who confess not his hand in all things, and obey not his commandments.
Doctrine and Covenants 59:21
It makes little sense to take ownership of what we have done when it is from God’s blessings that we have all that we do. “Shall the ax boast itself against him that heweth therewith? Shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? As if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself as if it were no wood (2 Nephi 20:15)!”
These scriptures and others make it very sensible to chose humility and thankfulness and as an added blessing they help us avoid the day when “the high ones of stature shall be hewn down; and the haughty shall be humbled (2 Nephi 20:33).”