Quotes About Humility

I am not Lionel Messi, I'm not Maradona, I'm just Dries and I'm happy with that.

Messi is the best player in the world, but he's not invincible.

I'm not really into the fame thing. I've met so many celebrities now, and everybody's just the same. I'm a bit of a family bird.

On 'Vikings,' nobody's got an ego. Michael Hirst is just so open and so collaborative.

I'm not the type of guy who is going to be out in front of a microphone for attention.

People think I am arrogant, I don't think so. I cannot be arrogant at all... I am basically a lower middle class person by heart.

When I finish a first draft, I often look back at first chapters I wrote and laugh at them. They're like pictures of yourself in middle school. You're embarrassed to see them.

It amazes me. I'm just a fat, middle-aged, bald guy, but people still want to meet me.

I've heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris. I'm a Dutch boy from the Midwest. We don't have hubris.

I just think - the Midwest, if you grow up there, you're deathly afraid of putting on airs. Any time a Midwesterner criticizes someone, it's usually involving some form of being too big for your britches.

It took me coming to the Midwest to realize I was the jerk. People are so nice here. They're so grounded.

I feel very Midwestern at my core.

It's been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience.

I might be a celebrity but I belong to the humble category.

It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones and Jack Ryan. I don't want to be in the Harrison Ford business. I take what I do seriously, but I don't take myself seriously.

I'm not a Mike Bloomberg billionaire.

I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.

This experience has also humbled me by giving me a true understanding of what millions of others face each day in their own fight against cancer.

The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be.

We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.

If you start with the mindset that you know nothing, you will learn a lot that nobody knew before.

You need ego but mine is not blinding.

The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

A lot of my friends and the people I mingle with, they not famous. They don't got half of what I got. For me, what that do is, it keeps me humble. It keeps me grateful and appreciative of what I got.