Quotes About Humility

If you want to reach the top, don't run over others. Likely, the only way you'll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

Let me tell you - when I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble. You don't think about breaking records anymore, you don't think about gaining scientific data - the only thing that you want is to come back alive.

Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.

When I come home from work, if I just played a really good game and I'm on top of the world, I think changing a diaper will humble me pretty quickly. On days when I struggle, I'll come home and I'll realize that it's not the end of the world.

You can't always be the top dog.

I study nature, and I realize that no matter how much you learn, you can't top nature.

I hate talking about myself, I find it such a boring topic. I'd much rather talk about other things.

One of the topics I'm most passionate about is servant leadership - the greatest leaders recognize that they're here to serve, not to be served.

I've learnt an enormous amount from my children. Mostly that my agenda isn't the most important thing in the world. For a while, I was trying to squeeze them into my life. And it was such torment! It makes you realise how selfish you are.

Me getting cut from Toronto that first year, definitely helped with the ego. It was deflating. Some people either quit or some people get hungry.

When you have girl children, they torture you! If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens. They say, 'Mom, you didn't really wear that?' And I say, 'Yes, and pretty much everyone saw it.'

In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

I'm not interested in promoting myself or revealing to total strangers anything about me. That's not my job.

When my children were young, I was very cocky. I thought I could maintain total control.

I was such a screwup when I got to the big leagues. I was a total idiot.

I was trying to be 27 at age 47, but God had to get rid of my vanity. I had trouble letting go of the old Lex physically. My human fleshly nature didn't want to let go of what had come to be billed as 'The Total Package.' I guess God had to help me get rid of the last remnant of that vanity and pride.

My early colleagues and myself helped create the life styles of Americans and, by osmosis, of the rest of the world. I found it difficult to reconcile success with humility. I tried it first, but it meant avoiding the very essence of my career - total exhilaration and the ecstasy of creativity.

I'm not ashamed to look like a total idiot.

Sometimes there has to be a goat on some level, and I'm totally fine with that being me.

Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person who is totally honest, and even with him, he's skillful not to hurt anybody. He's skillful.

Cuanto más sabemos sobre el mundo, más pequeños e insignificantes para su funcionamiento descubrimos que somos.

I'm humble enough to acknowledge that I don't know the secrets of the universe. I'm no longer chasing faith. I'm chasing truth—and that means accepting uncertainty, accepting that the universe is bigger and stranger than we can even know. Is it possible that the universe acts with intention, with intelligence? Science is learning that it's not only possible, it's likely.

You know what the Jews say: Man plans and God laughs.

It's especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.