Quotes About Humility

I'm not an extravagant man. The fact that I can have a coffee out whenever I want still makes me feel grateful.

And I'd like to leave quite a few friends behind and I hope I will. Other than that, I don't want nobody putting me on a pedestal when I leave here. I'm just one of the people ... just me.

As a personality, I'm not one that likes to be center stage. It's not about me, it's about the music. I just want people to listen.

Just be nice to me while I am doing the scene; that is all. I don't want big cars, I don't want big hotel rooms.

I don't know why people enjoy what I do. I play piano and sing a few songs - and that's about as exciting as I want it to get. The people who come to my shows will have to bring a good book!

I think it's great when writers get recognition; it doesn't happen very often. I just don't want that writer to be me. Let it be Aaron Sorkin or, you know, somebody good.

Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

I'm not that smart, but I'm smart enough to know that if Usher wants to help you, you let him.

It's important for people to realize I don't want to be the It guy. I want to crawl before I walk. I want to learn about things before I jump into them.

I think if I were to get as big as I could get, it does change your mind-state. I think like the little man. I think like the underdog. I don't want to change that.

If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.

I feel like there's a lot of rappers that could out-rap me and I wouldn't want to face any of them.

Robin Williams was the kind of generous person who would do things but not want to receive public credit for it.

I am no big shot. I am not anybody's boss. I want to be everybody's servant.

I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat.

People ask me, 'Would you ever want to play professional golf?' And I'm like, 'No. No, no, no, no. Just because I can hit a good shot every now and then doesn't make me a pro.'

One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.

Before I give you a blessing, I ask you for a favor: I want you to bless me.

Modest egotism is the salt of conversation; you do not want too much of it, but if it is altogether omitted, everything tastes flat.

What I've learned from sketch is you can get it as perfect as you want, and it's never going to be perfect.

To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.

If we flaunt our wealth, we make enemies of people who have only their inner strength to get them through. And those are the people I want on my side.

The compliment that I like more than anything is when my family tells me I'm the same Ryan. I never want to become a celeb who forgets about anybody or has a big head about himself.