Quotes About Humility

I've always been one to shy away from the publicity, the limelight, whatever you want to call it. I prefer to be in the background.

I'm not shy, but I have a job to do. I don't need the notoriety.

I don't like selling myself. It's a sort of shy arrogance.

I'm quite a shy person, and I dislike narcissism intensely.

I have three other siblings, so it's all very equal - even when I get a little cocky, which I usually do. My brother keeps me in a headlock. He says that I'm not a celebrity in this house. I think I'm really chilled out and grounded.

I am from a middle-class family, and everything I have achieved in life I have only appreciated. I have never gone overboard because I have seen the other side of life. When you have seen the other side of life, you appreciate what you have.

In one-day cricket, we should not think that we can win easily against any team. There have been examples when big teams have lost to small sides.

Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.

You know, public service is serious enough on its own, and what I've found is if you take yourself take yourself too seriously in this business, you'll lose sight of what it is that you're trying to get done. So I mean I've tried to have the proper mix of being a serious public servant, but also still being a regular guy.

It is good to have an intellectual awareness of our dependence upon God - to understand how great He is and how very small we are in His sight.

I've been lucky and I recognize that, but I haven't lost sight of that girl I was.

For me, I worked so hard to get to where I am and I don't ever want to lose sight of being grounded.

This business is fickle. You have very good patches and less good patches, but you learn to ride them out. As long as you don't take yourself too seriously, you'll be fine. When you lose sight of that, you're in trouble.

I know I've been blessed a lot to be in this position, and I never want to lose sight of that. So, sometimes it's overwhelming when I think about how blessed I've been to be able to do what I do for a living.

I'm not a star. I don't feel I'm so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you've got my signature on a piece of paper?

In fighting, when someone's signed up to fight me, I'm not humble. I've never been humble.

I'm not nearly as significant as Ralph Nader or the local plumber.

What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.

When it comes to true humility in the face of history, nothing beats complete silence.

The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.

I don't like it when people say I was the best ever. It's silly. I am not the best ever. I was the best of my time.

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

The course is going to make you look silly sometimes. You have to be able to accept that and move on.

I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.