Quotes About Humility

Don't believe the hype. I don't care how many number ones you have at the box office, I don't care how much they say you're great, don't believe it. Just stay in your lane and do what you're supposed to do.

A lot of parents today are terrified that something they say to their children might make them 'feel bad.' But, hey, if they've done something wrong, they should feel bad. Kids with a sense of responsibility, not entitlement, who know when to experience gratitude and humility, will be better at navigating the social shoals of college.

People make mistakes. They say stupid things.

Creative directors can be egocentric, they say. I decide; they shout at people and harass. I don't want that.

I'm as thick as a plank.

I like to call myself numerically dyslexic, but officially, I am mathematically thick.

Let's be clear, I'm one of the thicker bishops in the Church of England.

There is a thin difference between confidence and ego.

Christ removed self as the force in His perfect life. It was, 'Not my will, but thine be done.'

The most important thing is to stay down to earth and keep concentrating on the next game.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

I don't think of myself as hot or cool or anything, just a dork.

For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.

You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.

I think that being a simple person suits me.

I don't think a man has to go around shouting and play-acting to prove he is something. And a real man don't go around putting other guys down, trampling their feelings in the dirt, making out they're nothing.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you're above everybody else.

Success should not make you think you are God's gift to mankind. You should never forget that you are what you are because God chose you to be there.

I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.

I just try to try to keep an attitude that I don't know what I'm doing. Not to the point where I'm beating myself up, but I just go in thinking that I have a lot to learn. And I hope I still have that attitude 30 years from now.