Quotes About Humility

Just when you think you have everything figured out, you discover you know nothing at all.

That's something I never want to do: I never want to think I know it all, because I don't. There's always more people with more advice, and I just want to soak all that up and make my sporting toolbox as full as I can get it.

And there has to be a level of gratitude and a little bit of pride. But I want that pride to be quick so that I don't soak in it too much. Because I've met a lot of jerks in this business. And I don't want to be one.

I thought I was a pretty decent soccer player. I'm not.

I talk about millennials with a healthy dose of humility, as I'm a card-carrying member of Generation X. But I have daily interaction with young people at Dana Perino & Co., through my Minute Mentoring organization, with digital friends on social media, and especially at Fox News.

I do a lot of social service and I don't boast about it. I believe that if you give with one hand, the other hand shouldn't know of it. I don't believe in cheap publicity.

I wear cheap shoes. I don't even wear socks.

You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.

I'm skinny, but a soft skinny. I have strong legs, but my arms are like pea pods with single peas for elbows.

I never was a great sports player. In fact, in fourth grade, I had the second to the worst softball throw.

Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt.

I don't want to claim that my government can find solutions to all the problems facing the people.

I feel every painting is a challenging piece of a puzzle for me and others to solve. I feel both humble and exhilarated to see if completed.

We like to think we can solve everything, but we can't always.

I'm beyond the point of thinking I'm powerful enough to solve my own problems.

I've been humbled by the amount of people who have gone out of their way to reach out, mentor me on an ongoing basis, and devote time to help solve the problems Rent the Runway faces as a company - simply out of their own interest and kindness.

Throughout his presidency, my grandfather made it clear that he alone could fix nothing; that he alone had no answers. He had the courage to plainly admit America's shortcomings, to then lay out bold plans to address those problems and to ask his fellow Americans for help in solving them.

If you're the smartest person you know, it's time to know some new people.

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.

Some people say I'm arrogant or cocky but I'm a down to earth, decent guy.

There are some people who feel that they deserve a particular award or recognition, but I don't fall in that category.

There are some people who are just plain great at making music. That's not who I am.

People say to me, 'You're a genius; you're great.' I don't know if I'll ever feel that way about myself. Some things, I feel like, are better left for other people to say, and I'm just not into, like, tooting my own horn or bragging or anything.

The fact that some things are mysterious or that they touch on mystery isn't in some way a capitulation, and one should realize that there are some things that we may never understand and, to that extent, should be humbled by that.