Quotes About Humility

I respect my opponents, I learned that from life. I used to think I would step in there, throw one punch and the other girl would go down and not get up again. Everytime I thought that, I lost.

Son, never throw a punch at a redwood.

If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now.

I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.

When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog. You must give humbly, and thank him for allowing you to have a part in his hunger.

I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

Throwing more science at things isn't always the answer.

If I'm throwing a no-hitter and someone says, 'Hey, you've got a no-hitter,' obviously I'd be like, 'Yeah, I know.' I just try to be humble. I don't like to talk about myself. I have no problem speaking up when I screw up, but if I'm doing good, people are going to notice. I don't need to talk about it.

I've thrown many picks in my life, man.

I think of Pope Gregory the Great. He wanted the cloister. He wanted to pray and study, and yet he was thrust into this administrative job, and he submitted to that. And in that submission, he became a great leader. You could say that the only person who is safe to lead is the person who is free to submit.

I'm much more interested in looking at our own failings than going to some faraway place and looking at their failings, thus making us feel good about ourselves.

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.

Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee.

Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.

We don't have sports tickets, we don't have corporate jets. We don't have stadiums named after us.

I'm not up there with Kate Winslet and Julia Roberts. I don't sell tickets. I've known that for a long time.

If I'm appearing on 'Raw,' then I'm usually there to help sell tickets to something, and that's when you see the 'HBK' Shawn Michaels come out. At panels, I can be more open and honest and show some more humility. They don't want me talking about my family on TV, but I can in a panel setting.

I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.

I am humbled to be selected as a TiE Star recipient and to be included among such an esteemed group of true innovators and intrepid entrepreneurs.

I am just a beginner. The two films so far are baby steps. If I develop an attitude, I'll be finished even before I've started. Besides, if I started misbehaving, my folks would give me a tight slap.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

Let no one flatter himself of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.