Quotes About Humility

You can see how he changed on the surface. But at the core of it all, I think Superman has remained the same - a character with incredible powers but almost superhuman humility and restraint.

A lot of times I'll see guys who are nowhere near the level of the board they're riding. They might love surfing and love how it looks, but you really have to work your way up. It takes eating a little humble pie at first, and stepping back to equipment that might be a bit slow, but do it.

I properly enjoy what I do, but I know it's not brain surgery. I don't take myself too seriously.

Being naive I think is how you construct new music. When you start thinking too much what is it you're doing? You're just making an album. You're not doing brain surgery. If you take it too seriously you start taking yourself too seriously.

I don't want to surpass anyone. I don't want to be better than anyone else.

I don't want to surpass Messi.

Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.

I'm surprised that I get to be in the same room with half the people that I'm working with.

I'm still always surprised that anyone might be interested in my work or me.

People would be surprised by me if they knew I was humble.

I've always been surprised at the number of people who think we've got it all figured out. It's incorrect, and it's a real problem.

It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises.

Fame and stuff like that is all very cool, but at the end of the day, we're all human beings. Although what I do is incredibly surreal and fun and amazing and I'm really grateful for it, I don't believe my own press release, do you know what I mean?

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

My message to the world is to surrender your ego: try not to think that you are not as fortunate as some people or inferior or not as good as someone else.

To surrender your ego, you have to have one first.

The family and friends and the people I surround myself allow me to keep my feet firmly on the floor and not get too big-headed.

You see, this happened a few months ago, but it's still going on right now, and it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.

I'm just a baker. I don't claim to be anything else. Maybe once, maybe years ago, I was a different kind of human being. I've forgotten, I don't know for sure.

No matter how canny you think you are, something can come along, bam, and put you on your prat.

a lot of what makes one man a ruler and another not is simply a willingness to be wrong.

I am not a learned man. I have read a certain amount, enough to know I know very little. But I have read enough to have some sense that all men think of themselves as heroes, at least heroes of their own lives, and that no man who did evil thought he was doing such.

It's tempting to think of yourself as powerful when those around you are far less so, but compared to the simple fact of existence, to the power of life and how it hangs on, we are nothing.

Mountaineering is always spoken of as though summiting is conquest, but as you get higher, the world gets bigger, and you feel smaller in proportion to it, overwhelmed and liberated by how much space is around you, how much room to wander, how much unknown.