Quotes About Humility

We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss.

I am no expert on parenting.

Paris is the most modest girl.

I don't want my kids to be raised thinking they'll get into a park and people applaud.

I live near a beautiful park, and when I walk around it, the beauty of it can take your breath away. It makes you realize there is something bigger, certainly bigger than me.

I would also would have liked the part of the Bus Driver.

But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?

I find it more consoling to think of myself as little than to think of myself as big. I think I've gotten that from animals, particularly dogs. Dogs live such a modest life, and they don't live long, and the more you're around them, you kind of accept that.

I don't see myself as a particularly expert angler.

It is very important as a human being to be able to laugh at yourself and circumstances and particularly as a Christian. We have to know that good times don't last always and bad times don't last always.

I don't consider myself to be particularly gifted in the way that other filmmakers are gifted.

A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.

When I make mistakes, I just get on with it. I don't try to impress with that killer pass to make sure everybody notices me.

Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?

I took a Groundlings class in my 20s, and I was terrible. They didn't even pass me to the next level.

The way we approached Meru, and the way we approach a lot of these mountains, is with humility. A sense of, 'Is it going to give us passage?' Your mental attitude can affect the outcome.

As a character actor, you have to understand that it's not about you. You have to remember it's about someone else's life. And your character is just passing through.

Like most of us, he had a large blind spot about his own faults.

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land" (2 Chronicles 7:14).

It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and cried out in pity for a yogin by the river who had spent twenty years of his human existence learning to walk on water, when the ferryman might have taken him across for a small coin.

There, but for the grace of God, go you and I.

Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.

To be great is to keep sweetness.