Quotes About Humility

Calling the cat stupid never made the mice wise.

I'm white and I don't dance, but that doesn't mean I have all the answers.

True honor does not crave recognition, as true wisdom craves not publicity. The great heroes and the great men of wisdom walk silently through the bypaths of mankind.

A spoon does not know whether it enters a rich or poor man's mouth.

Humility fears not humiliation.

Never since the time of Copernicus have so many experts been so wrong so often with so little humility.

It's taken me all my life to understand that it is not necessary to understand everything.

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

We are shallow because we are 'mayabang, ' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.

We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.

See all women as mothers, serve them as your mother. When you see the entire world as the mother, the ego falls away.

Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understands the minds of other men and women.

I try to instill in the guys to work hard, be humble, be blessed, stay in the gym, be a sponge and soak as much intelligence as a young player and embrace it.

I'm fortunate for where I come from because even though I didn't grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth, it allowed me to appreciate any little thing that I have.

Even when I got ?500 a month as pocket money, I would never spend all of it. It's the same now. I am just conscious of the fact that I wasn't born with a silver spoon.

Cricket is such a sport that you get to learn something from someone every day.

I think number one is what my mom and dad preached to me when I was a little kid: Just because you may have athletic ability and you may be able to play a sport doesn't make you any more special than anybody else. Doesn't mean God loves you more than anybody else.

Golf is a humbling sport.

I'm aware that what I say is going to reach a lot of people so I'm always very careful. But I'm human and I screw up - I'm not very good at saying things on the spot - so I'll say something and go, 'aw, man, I should have worded that better than I actually did.'

I don't mind who takes the spotlight. If you win the game, then it doesn't really matter.

I'm not a guy who needs the spotlight. It's not something I have to have. I'm content to sit at home.