Quotes About Humility

I don't see myself as somebody special. I just see myself as Aaron, the same guy I've been all my life.

I don't take myself or the species too seriously. You have to laugh at everything.

When I did the album for 'When Harry Met Sally,' I found myself out there in front of this big band, which I had no idea how to do, and they wiped the floor with me. It's a very specific skill, and I didn't know how to do it.

I used to dislike it, but now I like it more and more, feeling small. I like feeling like a little speck.

I don't have the need to be the greatest of all-time anymore, 'cause I'm just a speck of the greatest energy to ever exist.

I've had a lot of great stuff - spectacular stuff - happen to me. I've got to not be a pig about life.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

I've never made a perfect speech or a perfect anything. I always think after, I should have done it that way or this way.

People get up and say, 'I didn't prepare a speech because I didn't think I would win.' Well, that's dumb.

Don't believe your own press, and don't give speeches.

This perception that a good captain is someone who beats his chest and roars like a lion and gives big Churchillian speeches, that's just not what leadership is about for me.

Pope Francis tells us who he is by pointing to Caravaggio's St. Matthew: 'Here, this is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze.' He is telling us that he has experienced the same rush of speechless wonder and graced love Caravaggio depicts in his painting.

As a player you get to meet Hall of Fame members and now to have my name in the same sentence makes me speechless.

I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.

I don't seek the limelight. I'm perfectly happy with a quiet life and spending time with my family, but I deserve recognition.

My parents keep me grounded. I've spent a lot of time on my own in my life, and I've learnt the hard way.

Basically, out of the sphere of what I do - being a comedian/writer, and out of the sphere of football, I am incredibly uncompetitive.

I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.

We are all afflicted with our own spiritual blindness. That's what sin does to us, and we all sin. We would do better to look into our own hearts and deal with our own sin before we condemn the sins of others.

Humility is one of the key aspects of spirituality, and along with comedy, a key component of healing.

It's like when I look into the depths of things, dealing with my spirituality and the most high, it's serious. It's nothing to play with, nahmean. I try my best to be as humble as I can be.

I'm not a fool with my money. I've known what it's like to be poor and I don't splash it around stupidly.

I make mistakes, and sometimes in split seconds. Then seconds later I know how wrong I was.

I don't have the desires of a spoiled child. I never did.