Quotes About Humility

It is hard to categorise every accolade you have won. Getting into the Hall of Fame is great. It is fantastic to be recognised by your own country. To be part of the history of our national game is simply humbling.

I was pretty much nonexistent on the Internet before NASA, and that was really because I've been inspired by amazing sacrifices of people who did amazing things - jumping on grenades or sacrificing their lives or doing the most crazy, brave things without hesitation and never, ever seeking recognition for it. That was always very powerful for me.

I don't need any more recognition. I don't need any more money. I don't need any legacy.

What kind of recognition do I deserve? I don't deserve any recognition.

A little recognition is not a bad thing because it means people appreciate your work. The only problem is when you can't walk down the street or have a meal without people looking at you. I want to be the one looking at people.

I don't really think about recognition; I'm not really involved.

I don't play for recognition.

Paul wasn't looking for recognition. People didn't know about his organization until he passed away.

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

Nobody's perfect, everybody is flawed in a way, and to recognize your own flaws and to just enjoy them is something that I try to do for myself. I do that all the time.

It's really important to find a humble approach to your own creative work, your own business work. To recognize that you can't do everything yourself.

I recognize that I'm human, and the older I get, the more I realize how fallible I am, how fallible we all are.

The beauty of having your ego checked as many times as my ego was checked in Newark made me recognize how much I needed other people who were very different than me in order to get big things done.

Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.

I recognize that as the guy who lost the election, I'm not in a position to tell everybody else how to win, all right? They're not going to listen, and I don't have the credibility to do that anyway.

I don't want my writing to be recognized.

I get recognized just often enough to keep my ego bouncing along, but not so much that I can't go places.

I like to lay low. I like to hang back. I like to be the person that's not really recognized.

Part of being really objective about your trade, your music, or your art is recognizing that you might not know everything about it.

I've been very clear publicly I'm not a perfect human being, and I've made mistakes in my life, and I've had to apologize to God and to seek reconciliation.

I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

It would be completely wrong and arrogant of me to say that this is what I am, an inspiration to others. During the course of my recovery, I bumped into people with amazing stories, far more amazing than mine.

I'm old enough to know that a red carpet's just a rug, and I've been able to enjoy the pageantry without letting it go to my head.