Quotes About Humility

Our age-old faith in divine male intuition is no longer good enough. Reality check, fellas: We are not gods. We are men. Let's own it.

When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed.

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

As I've said before, and I still hold to, I truly am the most boring person alive. And if there was a great investigation to be found at the end of the resume, it would be, the most boring person alive.

I don't want to say that when you're an athlete, you take things for granted, but you do. We're supposed to go out and think we're invincible. We're not.

I don't think of myself as being invincible anymore.

I don't feel invincible because I'm human.

I never thought that being a footballer I was invincible, I knew I was human.

I don't think I'm invincible.

Some people might think they're invincible, but I don't.

I've always believed that the stories and the performances are more important than I am. I think that the more invisible that my hand is, the more attention people can pay to the story and to those performances.

I'm Irish. I don't know how to take a compliment.

The irony of what I do is that the more you reveal someone in their frailties and shortcomings, the more we feel drawn to them and forgiving we feel of them.

No Israeli leader is a king.

Out of so many international stars from U.S., France, Russia and Italy, I was the one who bagged the first Frownie Award. It is a humbling feeling.

Now Jack Charlton wasn't wrong, I was a bad footballer.

The difference between God and Reggie Jackson is that God doesn't think he's Reggie Jackson.

Being in jail, it's humbled me in a way I never imagined.

I had to go to jail, which was probably the most humbling thing I've ever had to deal with in my life.

I didn't know how to deal with real life issues the right way as a humble human being until I was humbled to the point of being put in a jail cell.

I know a few chords on the guitar, but I wouldn't be able do a show or even be part of a jam session with one.

They haven't said it, but let's be clear: I would never have been on the list for James Bond, so I'm not labouring under that misapprehension.

I say the same thing that I've said for decades now, which is: don't go over to Japan trying to change it, thinking that you know better. Go there trying to understand.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.