Quotes About Humility

Secretly incredible people keep what they do as one of God's best-kept secrets because the only one who needs to know - the God of the universe - already knows.

I'm glad I got a chance to work with Demi Moore and Mark Duplass. They're so humble and down to earth, and it is overwhelming to share screen space with such mind-boggling actors.

It is to such men as Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson and Jackson and Franklin, all most lowly born, that we owe most of our greatness as a nation.

I'd give Him some room. I'd be like, 'Thanks for keeping me around a little bit longer. I owe You a lot.'

I've learned that you don't want to expect anything or feel that you're owed anything.

No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.

I am not owed anything in this life, especially in wrestling.

I don't see that anyone owes me anything for my service. I don't feel any sense of entitlement.

I'm not the best dog owner.

One of the humbling things about having written more than one novel is the sense that every time you begin, that new empty page does not know who you are.

I nrver make the front pages or the gossip columns.

Nothing can make you more humble than pain.

I can't paint as well as Vermeer.

I'm not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy.

I don't dare to think my paintings are great. I can't understand the arrogance of someone saying, 'I have created a big, important work.'

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

You'll see me just walk into the local Tesco. I don't feel I need to hide myself because there's no reason to. Okay, I play for Crystal Palace, but I'm still a normal human being.

Personality-wise, I like to avoid putting my pride on parade.

This is a paradox of man: compared to God, man is nothing; yet we are everything to God.

Being British, I don't want to be all paranoid and arrogant and think people are looking at me because, really, I'm nothing.

Being a parent is such a difficult business; you don't always get things right. And also, you don't want to be a perfect parent... You need people to be human, and part of it is imperfection.

There is nothing so humbling as being a parent to young children!

Parenthood is a great equalizer. It doesn't matter how famous you are - once you become a parent, you are just like everyone else.

I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.