Quotes About Humility

When you make mistakes, when you're wrong, you should admit you're wrong and ask people to forgive you.

It's not a weakness to admit that you're wrong.

I know that I am not entitled to anything, and when somebody thinks they are, that's a step in the wrong direction.

If you start to believe the hype about yourself, then you start to lose the bigger picture, and your focus is in the wrong place.

Hero.' I've always struggled with that word. I'm just a guy who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I don't want to be that guy that's either arrogant or rubs people the wrong way.

We do not need to be heroes to save the world; all we need is humility, a critical view of the commercial and political interests of those who would mislead us into wrongdoing, and a sense of wonder.

Under Pope Francis, we have seen a change at the Vatican that is reflective of the church I know and love. He approaches controversial doctrine or past wrongdoing with humility, understanding, and faith in the goodness of mankind. He has served as a voice for the voiceless and has been working to re-establish the church as a home for the homeless.

I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order.

I have some realistic humility which comes from my first career as a writer. I wrote for other people for ten years. I saw some incredible egos not based on any reality. They were great when they were on top and awful when they weren't. I learned a lot about how to treat people.

Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose.

When I was in prison, a lot of my friends blew me away. But Stephen Fry wrote to me. It was very humbling.

There is no 'off' being John Cena: it's always on. In a way, I think that has helped me, because over the years I have been able to be humble. I have been able to be humiliated in front of the WWE universe in a good way.

Being a WWE performer and doing all the different things we get to do, it can wear on you, and you can learn a lot of stuff about yourself. For me, it always reminds me to just stay humble. Just be yourself, love what you do, and enjoy the ride.

My wife loves to tell me that I love to tell people, 'Oh, I never thought WWE would sign me. I never thought I'd be on TV. I never thought I'd be a champion. I never thought any of those things were remotely possible.'

But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya.

We all love people who give credit to others for their success. Companies would probably do better with CEOs who didn't blow their own horn and ask for ridiculous salaries and new yachts every year.

I am not a multimillionaire. I don't own a yacht or a Ferrari. I live in a 60-square- metre flat. My needs are simple.

I don't night-club, don't get into fights or scandals, don't own a yacht, don't play the horses, don't wear plaid overcoats, don't go to Hollywood parties, don't own a motorcycle, don't run back and forth to New York, don't go in for politics.

I'm never going to be one of these players who dribbles past three and bends it into the top corner from 25 yards. That's not me.

Do I make mistakes? Yeah.

Sometimes in football you have to hold your hand up and say, yeah, they're better than us.

I don't have a dark side as far as there is, like, murder in my past, but yeah, I think I'm a pretty nice, easygoing guy.

I'd be pretty saddened to hear anyone say, 'Yeah, listen to this... God, I'm awesome, the way this all sits together,' about their own work.