Quotes About Humility

I never understood why people want to do big things... Just do little things, with great Love.

I sometimes shy away because I don't want to be too 'showy-offy' but the older I get I think, 'You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket.'

Give the respect you want to receive; embody the grace you hope to encounter; and help others with no expectations whatsoever.

I once sent him a song and asked him to mark a cross wherever he thought it was faulty. Brahms returned it untouched, saying 'I don't want to make a cemetery of your compositions.'

When you're hurt or angry, let go by tapping into your humbleness. You want people to remember you for your grace.

Anyone who wants to be a leader must be the servant, not the boss, of those he wants to serve.

I'm quite modest. I don't want to tell people I'm a leader.

You have a chance of learning -- if you want to and youre not arrogant.

When I sing, I believe. I'm honest. If you want to get an audience with you, there's only one way. You have to reach out to them with total honesty and humility.

Don't call me a saint; I don't want to be dismissed so easily.

You can fail in films because you don't have the talent, or you have too much humility, or you lack ferociousness. I'm a gangster. If I want something, I'll grab it.

Never take over the world to tamper with it. Those who want to tamper with it are not fit to take over the world.

I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.

The best people to have power are the ones who don't want it.

I'll take anyway to get into the Hall of Fame. If they want a batboy, I'll go in as a batboy.

I'm a doctor of cowshit, pigshit, and chickenshit.....when you doctors figure out what you want, you'll find me out in the barn shoveling my thesis.

I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned.

Mary's greatness consists in the fact that she wants to magnify God, not herself.

I seriously don't take praise to my heart or to my head. I only want to work harder and never get complacent.

People may come to our communities because they want to serve the poor; they will only stay once they have discovered that they themselves are poor.

Everyone wants to be truth tellers today while never thinking we are the ones who need the truth told to us. It's quite amusing.

I grew up in a very simple home, a very simple background, and to be able to do what I'm able to do today, I'm very honored. I don't think I'll ever lose that perspective, and I don't want to.

Despair … is the ultimate development of a pride so great and so stiff-necked that it selects the absolute misery of damnation rather than accept happiness from the hands of God and thereby acknowledge that He is above us and that we are not capable of fulfilling our destiny by ourselves.

EL-FAYOUMY: You're very handsome, Caiaphas. CAIAPHUS THE ELDER: If I am, it's 'cuz God made me, not 'cuz you said so. Good day.