Quotes About Humility

I love a good loser.

I never thought I was a very good manager.

I'm not a good manager.

Good people are always forgiving. They close an eye to one's failings.

I don't want my children to have any kind of ego or entitlement because of what I do. I want them to be good people, and we fight every day so that they'll be that way.

I want to show that you can be a successful entertainment executive, be a good husband, be a good father, be a good friend, be down to earth, be a good person, and give back. If I can push that message out there into the world and pass it on to my son, then I'm OK.

Me being the best in the world, it doesn't mean that much to me if I'm not a good person at the end of the day, if I'm not setting a good example for other people to be better to each other.

I like to be in the room with players that are better than me. That's always a good place to be.

You just realize that you don't know everything there is to know. The older I get, the less I know, and that's a good thing. When I was young, I knew everything, and everything wasn't necessarily good.

Los seres que abrigan una idea tan elevada de sí mismos nunca imaginan que puedan llegar a caer algún día. Cuando se produce la caída, estos seres se vacían, azorados, desprevenidos; su sustancia se evapora en el estupor del fracaso. Sin medias tintas, ni matices, y sin previo aviso. Así son.

Eventually the bishop mounted the pulpit and began to speak. He described the virtues of being meek, poor and humble, while the candlelight gleamed on the jewels in his robes and his plump, self-satisfied face .

Once we have seen Him in a stable, we can never be sure where He will appear or to what lengths he will go or to what ludicrous depths of self-humiliation He will descend in His wild pursuit of men.

God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible but rarely for the impossible.

One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God.

THEOLOGY IS THE study of God and his ways. For all we know, dung beetles may study man and his ways and call it humanology. If so, we would probably be more touched and amused than irritated. One hopes that God feels likewise.

Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere. It sees plainly the real worth of men and things, and is not easily imposed upon by the dressed up emptiness of human pride.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.

The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.

So I ask my pride that it always go along with my wisdom. And when my wisdom leaves me one day alas - it loves to flyway - let my pride then fly with my folly.

A man's stomach is the reason he does not easily take himself for a God.

The more thoroughly a person understands life, the less he will mock, though in the end he might still mock the thoroughness of his understanding.

when an exceptional person treats a mediocre one more delicately than he treats himself and his equals, this is not just courtesy of the heart—it is his duty