Quotes About Humility

People say I'm deceptively unassuming, but that's the way I go through life. I'm not flash. You can make it sound calculated, but it's pretty much just me.

I think of myself as a shy, modest, relatively unassuming person.

I'm pretty unassuming, at least I think. I'm tall, but other than that, that's where it stops.

Truly accomplished artists are humble and unaware of their abilities.

I'm not immortal. I'm not unbeatable.

I think once you start to think that you're the man, and you know it all, and your style is unbeatable and stuff like that, that's when you get caught and clipped and get humbled really fast.

What I want to say is that nobody is unbeatable. There's a kid out there who probably wants to beat me. I train hard and try to be the best that I can be, but I don't disrespect my opponents. I am not disillusioned, either.

No man is unbeatable.

When you are confronted with a level of devastating disease and death, you never lose that sense of unbelievable humility.

I was a young, new, hot star, and I had this unbelievable arrogance. As time went on, the strident narcissism and arrogance slowly diminished. But I was definitely there. I'm older now. And a big crybaby.

It's unbelievable what the rewards are like with being a footballer, but I'm not stupid - I don't go around flaunting it.

Even though David Pottruck has gone to this unbelievable career where he is a billionaire, there is always a new hurdle. He never sits there saying, 'I'm the best.'

The cast of 'Parks & Rec' is just a group of unbelievably nice, humble, down to earth, hilarious friends.

Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.

The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone before him. He apprentices himself to them.

I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.

But we are only termites on a planet and maybe when we bore too deeply into the planet there'll be a reckoning. Who knows?

Laugh not at the dead, for the corpse at your feet is prophetic of your own destiny.

Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding'. Now I realize the more I learn the less I know about acting... and life.

I'm not perfect, but who are we kidding? Neither are you. And you wanna know what? I dig it!

Ask your wife for forgiveness, even when you're right.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.