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Quotes About Humility

When people approach me, it's a vulnerable moment for everybody. You can see that sometimes people don't quite know what to say to you, but they want to come up to you, and you can tell they're nervous, and it's really humbling and endearing.
~ Natalia Dyer
Golf isn't one of the things I'm best at. You're in a situation where you're vulnerable when you're not a good player. But what I've found is that those are the times that you can build the most lasting relationships.
~ Lynne Doughtie
I don't jump as high and I'm not as fast as Dwyane Wade and LeBron James. I don't have many highlight plays, but I can play this game.
~ Chris Bosh
There should be both a humbleness and an arrogance. Humble when you are on the team coach and you wear the club suit, you do up your top button and wear your tie, you represent the club in the right way. Then you sign autographs for the people who pay your wages.
~ Ed Woodward
I don't have a waist: I'm a breadbox on top of legs.
~ Tyne Daly
Once you've figured out how to wait on people and clean toilets, it makes you very mindful of how you treat the people who are serving you.
~ Garth Brooks
I did quite a lot of menial jobs. I was a waiter, an inventory clerk touring round properties listing cups and saucers, and a laserquest marshal.
~ Richard C. Armitage
I was a terrible waiter.
~ Billy Eichner
I know I am not Braddock's savior, never felt that way, and never will. There's no 'Rudy' style ending waiting for me where I get carried off the field and everything turns out O.K. for me or for Braddock.
~ John Fetterman
I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else.
~ Mikhail Baryshnikov
Barack Obama says that we need to be humble toward terrorism. Yet he is the one we have been waiting for. That is humble?
~ Evan Sayet
I was taking a connecting flight from Vijayawada to Hyderabad and Kajol was on the same flight. We were waiting for the lift and when I got in, the doors began closing. Kajol and her manager were all set to get in, but by then, the lift began moving up. I was so embarrassed that when I met her later, I apologized for the goof up.
~ Pranitha Subhash
I really believe waiting tables, and service industry jobs in general, make you a better person.
~ Judy Greer
Once a waitress, always a waitress.
~ Sandra Bullock
In my heart I'm just a lucky waitress.
~ Denise Mina
I don't wake up and say, 'Gee, it's a nice day, and I'm a legend.'
~ Eva Marie Saint
To be stripped of your freedom, to be stripped of your dignity and the respect you once had, to lose it all and then see life pass you by while you're sitting inside a prison cell, to wake up one day and get it all back - it's a very humbling feeling.
~ Brian Banks
You've got to wake up and perfect your craft, every day, and at the end of the day, you know, you get the star power, magazines, photos shoots, but you've got to say humble, you've got to stay grounded.
~ Dion Waiters
When I wake up in the morning, I don't think of myself as being better than anybody else. I think of myself as a good hitter.
~ Tony Gwynn
I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don't think twice about it. The fact that other people might want to look at me still feels funny. It's flattering, but funny.
~ Luke Bracey
My parents' usual reprimand was to remind me that I was not the Prince of Wales.
~ Andrew Solomon
If a man can beat you, walk him.
~ Satchel Paige
I'm not Brad Pitt or George Clooney. Those guys walk into a room and the room changes. I think there's something more... not average, but everyman about me.
~ Matt Damon
I hate myself in interviews. All of a sudden, you stop and you're like, 'Chris, how dare you?' I don't live in Darfur. I have both legs. But you can't walk around all the time being like, 'I'm so grateful I'm not in Darfur.'
~ Chris Evans