Quotes About Humility

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.

Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time.

Guerrilla leaders win wars by being paranoid and ruthless. Once they take power, they are expected to abandon those qualities and embrace opposite ones: tolerance, compromise and humility. Almost none manages to do so.

The key is not being overconfident. You should not think that because I'm a top-ranked player, I will win this game. You have to be focused.

Be brave if you lose and meek if you win.

I think sometimes it is more important to be gracious than to win.

I try to live my life like my father lives his. He always takes care of everyone else first. He won't even start eating until he's sure everyone else in the family has started eating. Another thing: My dad never judges me by whether I win or lose.

Win or lose, when I outclassed Dominick Cruz, I gave him my respect.

Win or lose, star or not, you wait for your car with everyone else, and waiting for your car is a drag.

Who am I to blow against the wind?

By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life.

And it blew my mind when I started to get wind of the fact that they actually liked me being around. That was humbling, because Kentucky basketball is a big deal, and I am not the biggest fan - I am just the most notorious one.

In the past, I have been guilty of returning from work with some parenting words of wisdom, ignoring the fact that my wife has been dealing with the situation for a while. The correct strategy at these times is to wind my mansplaining neck in.

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of 50 or 100 billion other galaxies in the universe. And with every step, every window that modern astrophysics has opened to our mind, the person who wants to feel like they're the center of everything ends up shrinking.

I realized no matter how famous you are, you're still human, and sometimes you need a chicken wing!

I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.

You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling; but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven.

When I first toured with Wings things that were said about me were true - I did sing out of tune.

I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.

I'm not that good a player, and I'll be the first to admit that. I might be a three or four grand-slam winner; I might be a two grand-slam winner, I don't know.

I want to say sorry for abusing my position as an 'X Factor' winner because I owe everything to this thing.

To be called a Cy Young award winner is something I could have never imagined ever happening to me. I'm just always amazed at the blessings that came my way over the years.

I know the world is mean, that there is so much suffering on the planet that none of us can imagine. I often think of those who have nothing, who have to suffer every day, so a winner, a game, set, match will never give me immense joy, only satisfaction.