Quotes About Humility

Don't put yourself on a pedestal. Because it's very easy for someone to knock you off.

I regret behaving badly when I was younger. I did not know any better at the time. The thing is that the incidents that I caused were not funny... Youth is wasted on the young. It is better to have the wisdom of an old man in a young body... I was a bit foolish and teased people, trying to be funny.

A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.

I wish I had perfect pitch, but I don't, and thanks to the miracle of YouTube, a bad night lives forever!

When someone praises me for some speech uploaded on YouTube, I politely tell them I've been acting for many years.

There are a few YouTube clips of me singing at The King's Head in Santa Monica, so you can see how bad I am.

Unrestrained zeal to make the world better could make it worse. Promoting democracy must be undertaken with humility, care, and wisdom.

The people of Samoa have a gentle way, and they have the humility that comes with managing to get by on the very basics of life. In London and New Zealand we are spoilt and we forget that.

The trick is to learn to contain one's ego, not conceal it.

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.

The more I come to understand music, the more I feel like a numbskull because there is always more to learn. The more I do it, the more I'm humbled. I'm just always trying to get better at it. I pick up a few tricks along the way.

I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.

I never tried to make money - just enough to be able to eat.

I am very sweet generally, but if someone tries to be over-smart by speaking to me in fancy English, then I go: 'who are you?' It isn't right.

Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction.

If a show ever tries to be cool, then it's going to be doing something wrong.

Astronauts cannot pick their nicknames and can only get their nicknames from other astronauts. Any astronaut who tries to give himself a cool nickname will regret it by getting just the opposite from his astronaut friends.

The last thing I want to do is force tries to happen.

My approach every game really tries to stay the same. I try not to make it about me. I try not to make it about my personal vendettas.

The guy who finally pulled the trigger on Osama bin Laden is not patting himself on the back. He's giving as much credit to his teammates who got him to that position.

I don't trip all over my ego. I don't mind being a second banana.

How do you tell a story that you're a part of without it being a big ego trip?

A lot of people in Hollywood are on that ego trip. They think they're more than somebody else. I've told a lot of stars in my career, 'Hey, man you're looking down on the people who made you. lf you keep doing that, you're gonna fall back down.'

I think we appreciate the musicianship we're surrounded with. Too many bands - it's an ego trip for the leader.