Quotes About Humility

I never want to feel like I've achieved my goal. It's like Chinese farmers. They never admit that it's a good season. They feel like they'll be punished.

Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?

The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. From my perspective, I am not a humble man. I am a proud man pursuing humility by the grace of God.

A life in pursuit of position or power is not a life well-lived or in service to others.

The truly humble feel the ground beneath their feet every day and do not only become aware of it when held aloft or pushed down to their knees.

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

I think gratitude is a big thing. It puts you in a place where you're humble.

In short, chronological connectivity puts us in touch with the holy. It is at once humbling and exhilarating. I say this as someone who has never followed any formal religious practice. Connection with the past and the future is a pathway that charms us in the direction of sanity and grace.

When everyone is buying into a system and puts their ego to the side, that's when greatness happens.

You understand what your eyes mean to you, but it's different when you have to go through something like I did, where it's a possibility you could have lost your eyesight. It puts things back into perspective for you and humbles you a little bit.

I just consider myself a piece of the puzzle and I'm lucky enough to be asked or invited to the party, if you will. I hope I can bring some laughs and grimaces to the fans.

There's not a lot of flash about me.

Mahesh is a big star, but he doesn't like to flash his money.

I appreciate what I have and, when people called me flash in the past, it hurt. I read an article not long ago saying I had given up all the bling and was concentrating on my football. Forget the football articles, that was one of the most satisfying things I have ever read about myself.

I don't know if I was ever meant to have that flashy lifestyle.

I wasn't very funny or flashy, I was kind of boring.

I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.

I like being boring to a certain extent. I don't have to be flashy. I get to put all of that into a show, and when it's over, I don't have to be that.

It's quite good when you fall flat on your bum on a creative level. Critics can hate what I do, or I've got something completely wrong, and it's good because that ego thing gets zapped for a while.

I grew up in a one-bedroom flat with my mum. She worked hard and then got a terraced house - nothing fancy. My mum always kept my feet on the ground.

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

You don't want to be flattered and become big-headed by getting awards. But, well, I am.

I'm flattered that people want to hear me talk about nothing.