Quotes About Humility

I was born in a house without a light or a toilet, so why would I forget who I am or where I come from?

I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me.

If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.

I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.

I cleaned toilets and shined shoes.

Everything I'm saying shouldn't be taken so serious. I'm playing, but at the same token, I'm acknowledging that I'm not always the perfect man; I'm not always doing the right things. That's who I am. I'm working to be better.

Arrogance - I have very little tolerance for that.

People can overlook any shortcoming, but they will not tolerate arrogance.

The one thing coaches cannot tolerate... is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn.

I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien.

I'm never going to be Tolstoy.

One day, you're talking with Tom Hardy; the next day, you have Nicole Kidman kissing your feet. I never thought I'd be able to say that in my lifetime, Nicole Kidman kissing my feet. It's mad.

Anybody can be rattled. Tom Brady is a great quarterback, but at the end of the day, he is just a quarterback. It's not like he is God.

But now, interviewees agreed, any kind of money wins more respect than the qualities their people used to value: truthfulness, objectivity, considering the good of others, hard work, education or the wisdom of old age, humility, and open hearted generosity.

Interesting people aren't interested in appearing interesting

The world the gods made is too big for us, so we make ourselves a smaller one.

Powers and saints, if she was any flatter, they'd be using her to pave the roads.

Some days I think I'm too stupid to be let out on my own, and then there's the days that prove it.

That's because he had such an enormous load of genitalia - you'd think that the rest of the body was nothing but a handle on that piece of equipment.

The importance of knowing nothing is underrated.

Part of peace-making is acknowledging that we can't know everything about ourselves, and sometimes we reveal things to others that we are not ready to accept.

Winning is not always about shining the brightest. Sometimes it's about sharing the light with someone who has been waiting in the shadows all along.

Awareness of your inadequacy is a rich blessing, training you to rely wholeheartedly on Me.

I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it." MARK 10 : 15