Quotes About Humility

God, don't let me be an old fool, I prayed.

We had all that love, and we just cracked up under it. It's a big airplane engine, that takes you through the sky, right up to the top of the mountain. But when you put it in a Ford, it just shakes it to pieces. That's what we are, Frank, a couple of Fords. God is up there laughing at us.

When he goes to a wedding he wants to be the bride, and when he goes to a funeral he wants to be the corpse. (Commentary about Teddy Roosevelt, who was president when he came to give away his niece to Franklin).

Most times I don't know what I'm doing. Sometimes I feel like I don't hardly know enough to tie my own shoes.

Never plead your merits before God. Plead mercy. It is mercy we need. We need it from first to last, and we need it every single day.

Marty, my mother used to say Never get greedy with God. I think what she meant was Don't dare ask for more if you already have what you need.

You will never stumble while on your knees

The most striking thing about beautiful churches, to me, is that they were mostly designed by people who were inspired by a belief in something larger and more important than themselves, and this is how I try to lead my own life.

is doing, so that your alms may be in secret, and your Father who sees what is in secret will reward you.

What I was able to share with people was how I learned that we all need to serve something bigger than ourselves. And if we want to inspire, we need to make ourselves small, not large. Like mothers, for example. Moms can be exhausted and hungry, even injured, but they're wiping our butts throughout the night. Her success, though, is also our success. If we can all be servant leaders, then our teams will thrive and prevail.

I wish we could not ever get recognised on the streets, do no selfies, and still perform music all over the world. Unfortunately I don't think that's going to be the case, but I'm doing my best to just keep my feet on the ground and my eyes on the prize.

If you've got people around you that are like, 'Oh, you're so good,' this and that, it becomes unhealthy. My friends are like, 'You look like a doofus.' I'm like, 'Thank you. Thank you for that.' It keeps me grounded.

You cannot look at someone and say they are unhealthy. You are not a doctor, and if you were, you'd realize why that's silly.

I worked at this place called Water World; it was a waterslide park. My brother and my dad framed my first paycheck from this place - which was for $0.00 dollars - because I didn't even make enough to cover the cost of my uniform!

I'm not too unintelligent.

The chimpanzee study was - well, it's still going on, and I think it's taught us perhaps more than anything else to be a little humble; that we are, indeed, unique primates, we humans, but we're simply not as different from the rest of the animal kingdom as we used to think.

I hang out with a lot of the people I did when I was in high school, when I was in college, and I have a strong unit of people around me, whether it be friends or family, and if my head gets too big, they will definitely check me immediately.

I want to unite our people and our country. I will serve you with humility and force in the name of liberte, egalite, fraternite.

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

There is no international problem that can be addressed or solved without the engagement and leadership of the United States and everybody in the world knows that, its just fact of life. So sometimes I think we could conduct ourselves with a little more humility.

Mr. Chairman, delegates. I accept your nomination for President of the United States of America. I do so with humility, deeply moved by the trust you have placed in me. It is a great honor. It is an even greater responsibility.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.

I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.

I'm just a simple man trying to make his way in the universe.