Quotes About Humility

I slept on a friend's kitchen floor for a year and a half.

While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.

I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack. That should be the name of my new DVD: 'Chris Rock: Slightly Above Hack'.

I think maybe Mr. Sinise and Mr. Bacon have slightly bigger egos than I do.

In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.

I think I look slightly like a horse. Hand on heart, I think I'm pretty average.

I feel slightly embarrassed by being called 'the godfather.'

I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.

So much about living life, to me, is about humility and gratitude. And I've tried very hard to have those qualities and be that person and I'm just so disappointed in myself that I allowed it to slip.

I mean, you know, God knows everything, but I'm not quite that good. Every once in a while, something will slip by me.

Growing up, I had only one good pair of shoes. So on rainy school days, my mom would slip plastic bread bags over them to keep them dry. But I was never embarrassed. Because the school bus would be filled with rows and rows of young Iowans with bread bags slipped over their feet.

I can't write. I can handle bits of simple-minded advert copy or a poster slogan, so answering questions is about all I'm good for.

My slogan is I'm the least qualified guy for the job, but I'd probably do the best job.

No, I'm not angling for huge fame. My career has been a very slow, arduous climb to the middle.

I'm obviously a lot slower than everybody.

You think you can do anything, and then you slowly learn how wrong you are.

Africa doesn't leap on you immediately; it seeps slowly, and it's incredibly important to be respectful and humble there.

I've met a lot of big stars who have humility. Sly Stallone is a very humble guy. Robert DeNiro is a really humble guy. Some of the women aren't so humble for some reason. I don't know why.

I have a very small sample size: 2-0 to start my NFL career. Talking a lot of smack. And then I walk into Kansas City and put up the worst football game of my existence. And I've always been this brash, arrogant kind of guy.

I'm not one of those guys talking smack, because we've seen it catches up to you at some point.

I prefer being a small fish in a big pond.

You've got to be able to go out there and do the small things. I went to Villanova, and I didn't start my freshman year until the last two games of the season. And I think that continuously not being 'The Man' helped me as an individual be able to say, 'Listen, what else do you need me to do?'

This office is smaller than the last one I had. I'm not trying to impress people. I want to be close to them.

Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.