Quotes About Humility

Egoism devours all the energy, and in addition it makes one suffer.

To say that, "I will not agree (will not accept)" is great egoism!

Spontaneous and natural (sahajik) speech means there is not an iota of ego in it.

Gnani (The Enlightened one) means without Ego.

why shine as bright as the sun, when you can shine as bright as the moon and let the stars shine beside you

A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint.

A man is his tallest when he is down on his knees in prayer.

I am simply not enough in myself, but in Him I am. This surrender is not weakness, but the only true measure of strength any of us have.

Fighting is a sport; if you're not humble it's going to bring humbleness to you.

If somebody says I am better than Roger, I think this person doesn't know anything about tennis.

People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity.

The humility to prepare and the self-confidence to bring it off.

I try to penetrate the lane like Steve Nash, pass like Jason Kidd, and handle the ball like Allen Iverson. Remember, I said 'try to'.

The ocean humbles you. You can go and win a world title, but you're never going to beat the ocean.

No matter how much you've won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you're not winning now, so you stink.

As someone who played a team sport, I feel a bit uncomfortable being ranked as an individual so high.

Don't praise your own good shots. Leave that function to your partner who, if a good sport, will not be slow in performing it.

When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.

You know, there's a rule in sports, "Don't do anything great if you can't handle the congratulations."

Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don't hurt anyone on the way up. I don't think I did that.

One of the Arsenal players came up to me afterwards and said it had been an honor to be on the same pitch as me. I thought, My God, that is a great thing to say when your team has just lost.

We're never as good as we think we are, nor as bad as we think we are.

I don't think it's healthy to take yourself too seriously.

The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.