Quotes About Humility

If I am the best, I am capable of saying it, but if I find the others better, I am also capable of shutting up. And staying on the bench. Full stop.

Everyone likes to be praised for their work and footballers are no different but the key thing is staying level-headed.

Staying humble has always been really important to me, and always being proud of what you're representing.

I think that's the biggest thing - staying humble, because the story you hear a lot of times is that guys who have success let it get to their head.

I haven't gotten overly confident or cocky. I think staying level and humble has helped me through the bad times and the good times.

I want to be Gwyneth Paltrow when I grow up! She's been able to have such a great career, such a great family and she stays so humble and so real.

I'm not a religious person in the regular sense, but in the Bible you're not allowed to steal, you're not allowed to lie and you're not allowed to feel you're above other people.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.

I'm proud that my family and I live across the street from a steel mill and a union hall. This is where my wife and I want to raise our family, not in a mansion.

Always beware your moment of triumphalism: such emotions are a poor steer on the future.

I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt.

People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low.

If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach.

I don't particularly consider myself an actor. I have no training. I love doing it, but I would never consider myself to be a colleague of an actual actor. That would be stepping way up in class on my part.

Giving back has definitely kept me grounded. Stepping outside of yourself to serve a group or community of people who are in need in some facet has a way of doing that. I don't ever want to grow to a place where giving back becomes a foreign concept.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.

I want to be an arena act. There's so many steps to take to get there, and it's so easy to get lost and cocky. I just take small steps each day.

You take your steps, you don't skip through and try to go straight to the top, that's just disrespectful.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Class is about what one drives and where one shops and how one prays, and only secondarily about the work one does or the income one makes. What makes one a member of the noble proletariat is not work per se, but unpretentiousness, humility, and the rest of the qualities that our punditry claims to spy in the red states that voted for George W. Bush.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Be not extravagantly high in expression of thy commendations of men thou likest, it may make the hearer's stomach rise.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.