Quotes About Humility

I get egotistical about things where I can do something well - for example, my singing. Most other things, I don't have the wherewithal to back it up.

I've never been a great shooter. I'm not a regular foreigner player.

I don't want to be one of those guys who makes it somewhere and forgets where they come from. Flint is very important to me.

Don't ask me about my career - I've forgotten most of it.

That's the God's truth - I've forgotten that I was famous. I guess it's laughable.

Business is not my forte.

I don't really look around and say, 'I've made it.' I just look around and think how fortunate I am to work with the people I'm working with.

At 93, I'm not looking forward to fame and fortune.

Perhaps the biggest lesson that I would say is the one to learn is not to let fame and fortune get inside your head.

Drama school is really a forum for making a fool of yourself.

My understanding of my faith is that - through a Christian framework - part of what we are called to do is to lay down our own self-interests, after the model of divinity that comes into this world in the form of Christ and lays down his life. And in order to do that, you have to care about something or someone more than yourself.

I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people.

Frankly, my head can never be bloated.

I have been told I say 'shucks' quite frequently... Shucks, I'll have to work on that.

I try not to listen to the other comedians performing before me because they will probably be funnier than me.

If I go to a party, I'm not one to be the funniest person in the room at all.

If I could give you information of my life it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do in His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing. I have worked hard, very hard, that is all; and I have never refused God anything.

Perhaps, she said, to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people.

It was really a very simple thing, after all,—it was only that he had lived near a kind and gentle heart, and had been taught to think kind thoughts always and to care for others. It is a very little thing, perhaps, but it is the best thing of all. He knew nothing of earls and castles; he was quite ignorant of all grand and splendid things; but he was always lovable because he was simple and loving. To be so is like being born a king.

You don't know that you are saying these things to a princess, and that if I chose I could wave my hand and order you to execution. I only spare you because I am a princess, and you are a poor, stupid, old, vulgar thing, and don't know any better.

Lila walked by with her nose in the air. In a straight line behind her, six obedient kindergartners waddled like baby geese, singing in unison, 'Row, row, row your yacht...

Hubris, that was the word — believing you were too good, too strong, invulnerable. The world had a way of teaching you that you weren't invulnerable.

I've done everything for the wrong reasons. All the good works people credit to me are nothing because I did them expecting God to repay me. I thought if I worked hard enough, God would have to give me what I wanted. The truth is I've never served the Lord at all. I was always serving myself.

All the way back, she had imagined him gloating and taunting, rubbing her face in her own broken pride. Instead, he knelt before her and washed her dirty, blistered feet. Throat burning, she looked down at his dark head and struggled with the feelings rising in her. She waited for them to die away, but they wouldn't.