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Quotes About Humility

With the money thing it is mad. As a young kid earning so much, having a house and driving a nice car it is nice but it is something I keep level-headed about.
~ Alex Iwobi
Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.
~ James Weldon Johnson
Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Young man, if God had wanted you to see me that way, he would have put your eyes in your bellybutton.
~ Lillian Gish
I literally cringe every time I see someone trying to trash talk. Some people just don't have it and they try, and I find that funny.
~ Alexander Volkanovski
DC is smart and he's a big inspiration for me. Thirty-nine years old and two belts. I can't really trash the guy and I can't really have beef with him.
~ Alexander Gustafsson
There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads. My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home. I'm not allowed to get a big head; I've still got to do the simple things in life.
~ Queen Latifah
I don't think you should go around talking trash about people because I think that's how you get your hat handed to you.
~ LL Cool J
I'm really white trash.
~ George Clooney
Sometimes when you get older, you need to tone down the trash talking, and sometimes you need younger fighters to bring it out of you.
~ Paulie Malignaggi
Wrestling background, you never talk trash.
~ Chris Weidman
I haven't done much traveling in my life at all - if you're seeing these places for the first time, so am I. So I decided not to pretend. I'm not this know-it-all host walking around claiming to know everything.
~ Bridget Marquardt
Far better to be the simplest pedestrian, with knapsack on back, stick in hand, and gun on shoulder, than an Indian prince travelling with all the ceremonial which his rank requires.
~ Jules Verne
And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.
~ Vince Cable
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
~ Francis of Assisi
It's very important that people know that I really enjoy everything that has happened to me. And I tell my kids... you're not going to be the tallest, fastest, prettiest, the best track runner, but you can be the nicest human being that someone has ever met in their life. And I just want to leave that legacy that being nice is a true treasure.
~ George Foreman
Yes, I hate it when people call me a 'national treasure'. It takes away your bite and makes you feel like a harmless old golden Labrador.
~ Sue Townsend
I hate it when people call me a 'national treasure.' It takes away your bite and makes you feel like a harmless old golden Labrador.
~ Sue Townsend
I think if anyone becomes so obnoxious to believe they could be a national treasure, they just need to go on Twitter and realise they're not. That's there to curtail anybody's confidence.
~ Michael McIntyre
I've definitely never said, 'Well, how about that, eh, I'm a national treasure.'
~ Declan Donnelly
One of the reasons why I don't leave Northampton is that the people don't treat me like a celebrity. I've been here for years; I'm just that bloke with long hair.
~ Alan Moore
I'm not a person who comes with bodyguards. I'm a simple jhola-kurta kind of girl. So people treat me as a buddy.
~ Shreya Ghoshal
It's cool when people know you more, but I like people to treat me regular when they see me. I take pictures. I don't really be big on people looking at me.
~ Meek Mill
Any hand that I've shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I'm this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That's why I treat everybody with respect. I'm always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.
~ Kevin Hart