Quotes About Humility

I am not posh. I went to a comprehensive school.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel.

I think that people who find themselves at executive level positions or get really successful forget that there is nothing they have done that wasn't the result of a lot of other peoples hard work.

I appreciate when people give us some positive feedback, and in the past, when I was younger, I might have allowed it to get to my head and have a bit of an ego.

I write about humility, because it's something I hope I one day actually possess.

I've never been somebody who needs their car or other material, larger possessions to say something flashy about them.

People who act the most arrogant often are the most insecure, and they just can't even begin to accept the possibility that they might not be as good as they think they are.

It may feel good to think you're right. But it's better to allow the possibility that you're wrong.

Think about what makes a band burn out. They get too successful too fast. And then they take it for granted. And they get entitled. And they get picky. We don't ever allow ourselves that possibility.

We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.

Have we gotten too full of ourselves? Possibly.

I've always been one foot in, one foot out of this game because I'm not comfortable with being on the pedestal or the poster. That's just not who I am. I'm more like the grunt. I want to be the guy behind the guy.

I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be on posters. I want to be good.

You want to have the perfect balance of hot and funny on your Instagram, but you never want too much of either... Don't try to add humility to your blatant 'hot' posts through a half-hearted attempt at being funny. You look good; just own it.

In North Korea I thought a frozen potato was the fanciest food in the world.

What I really want, what I always really want, is baked potato and grilled cheese. But then I'd be really fat.

I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes.

When you're poor, an egg sandwich is dinner and you cut your potatoes with a butter knife.

What's happened to society is we've become really pretentious. But there was a time in my life where I really had to choose between boiling potatoes and paying my gas bill, so I'd buy a can of potatoes.

Looking back now, thinking about that moment in the lights, with my heart pounding, Oscar in my hand, all I can say is I am grateful and humbled - still to this day. Next to marrying my husband and the birth of my children, it is one of the best days ever.

I'm secretly like 800 pounds and 90 years old.

I've had the belt and it's great. But at the end of the day it's just 12 pounds of leather and gold.

Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.