Quotes About Humility

If you truly want to succeed, you have to stay humble - humble or crumble - because it can all go away in the blink of an eye.

There are truly, truly millions. I'd probably need a month to list all my mistakes.

Only when you're in that ditch, lying there in the muddy runoff you've made of your life, gazing up at the peak you fell from, do you truly know how small you are and understand how tall you used to be.

Rush Limbaugh advocating for objectivity is like Donald Trump advocating for humility.

I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.

Even if my film does well, you will not see me blowing my own trumpet. There is no time to sit and dwell on whether it's done well or not done well.

I'm a terrible trumpet player.

I'm a terrible drummer; I almost cannot play the guitar nor sax nor trumpet.

I don't shout from the rooftops or blow my own trumpet. But I take a lot of satisfaction from the players and staff at clubs who recognise what I've done.

Sometimes I feel like you can toot your own trumpet too much. I don't really like that.

I live like in the days of Daniel Boone, hauling water by hand. I used to have two Rolls-Royces. Now I got one. It's got four flat tires; the trunk is open, and a rat lives inside it.

As six-time world karate champion and then a movie star, I put too much trust in who I was, what I could do, and what I acquired. I forgot how much I needed others and especially God.

Trust me: if I had something interesting to say about myself, I would.

At my funeral, if one said, 'Nick was a generous person,' trust me I won't be doing cartwheels in my coffin. Recognition from people is never and never will be a goal. Some people strive for that respect or honor. Living a life to just reach for the position and status is vanity and sin.

Trust me. Sometimes God comes down and puts his hand on you if you're too big in your thoughts.

You don't want to see me dance. That's not a pretty thing. Trust me.

Don't worry, everyone - I'm not going to be just this silly little idiot who thinks he's 'it,' who has been to the Olympics, won a gold medal and come back thinking he's 'it.' That isn't me, trust me.

In reporting, you will often be humbled by the courage others have in telling and trusting you with their tale, no two alike.

Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.

Humility is truth.

The truth is that I'm an idiot. I am. I don't do things by the rules sometimes. I say things that I probably shouldn't say. I push buttons. I deserve to be made fun of. And I feel like, as soon as you can make fun of something, it instantly removes the fear.

I try not to pay attention to talk of comparisons. I only want to focus on myself. It is good to hear that people are talking like that, but the truth is I am not at Cruyff's level of talent, and I never will be, so it is not something I think about.

Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.

The sage acts without taking credit. He accomplishes without dwelling on it. He does not want to display his worth.