Quotes About Humility

We're all made to make mistakes; nobody's perfect.

It's great being your own boss, but then, you know, you make your own mistakes, you know, and you own them. You know, so it's empowering, and it's also humbling along the way.

Do I make fashion mistakes? Yes, but I won't say what.

But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored!

I don't know if I'm the modern-day Dirk, but, you know, I'll take it. I won't complain about that.

The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.

On their own merits modest men are dumb.

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous.

My friends kidded me about going so far on such modest talent. I always agreed with them. I had no illusions about my films, nor did I consider myself anything special as an actor or a singer.

I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.

If you're successful, you must express a modest appearance.

I find that the more you achieve, the more modest you become.

For me, you have to have some kind of modesty.

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.

Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

I'll tell you something about Glenn McGrath - he was a much better bowler than me. This is not false modesty.

If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.

I am not a natural show-off. Some of the monster comedians are terrifyingly assured, and I don't have that, and that's held me back.

I don't see myself as the Hunk of the Month.

In Beijing, the joke among hacks is that, after the drive in from the airport, you are ready to write a column; after a month, you feel the stirrings of an idea-book; but after a year, you struggle to write anything at all, because you've finally discovered just how much you don't know.

Because I'm so big, you have to look at me. I think of myself as a monument. But sometimes I like to feel small.