Quotes About Humility

I work hard on my defense. It's something I take pride in, but it's nothing that I want to brag about. It's part of my game.

Spend a lifetime in hard work with a humble mind.

Study and know that we are always a student of the craft well after we've completed any course of study... and approach the work as a servant, not a star.

Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.

Every day work on your humility through your meditation, giving more of yourself, giving those things you don't want to give.

Insecurity prevents young artists from 'flying' and older artists from being 'down to earth.' Young artists should work on their confidence and the older ones on their humility.

Whoever prematurely begins a work that is above his strength receives nothing, but only brings harm upon himself.

I am glad to think I am not bound to make the world go right, but only to discover and to do, with cheerful heart, the work that God appoints.

In my eyes, I will never be up there with the Sir Steve Redgraves and the Sir Chris Hoys of this world. It's not something that drives me; I just enjoy going to the Olympic Games. Just to be mentioned in the same breath as those people is an honour for me. I don't ever think about those kind of things.

If you talk to anybody, among the first things you'll hear is, 'Steve Carell is the nicest guy in the world.' And he is. 'Steve Carell is the greatest guy to work with.' And he is. But all of that belies other aspects that are as true with him.

Steve Nash is just so smart. He's one of the most down-to-earth people you'll ever meet.

It is very nice to be compared to Steven Gerrard, but I know I am not at the same level.

I can't wait to meet Steven Spielberg or Al Pacino again so I can say, 'I have to tell you how you know me. You know me because I am the worst actor in the world.'

You can get a bit 'head in the clouds' - well, I do - and full of myself if I stick in front of the camera for too long. I forget there is hard work that needs to be done.

I'm not looking to stick my nose into an area where I'm not needed.

I saw a bumper sticker once that stayed with me: 'God help me become the person my dog thinks I am.' I don't have the heart for this. Meaning, of course, that I'm the failure.

I think people are very stiff. Money makes people stiff, and we want it, and we have to pay the penalty. I never agreed with stiffness. I think people have an understanding of what their life is. I define success by being a realist and not humiliating people. I'm a revolutionary - but not in the political sense.

On a bad day, I'll still have a conscious thing in my mind reminding me that what I think of as a bad day is still a very good day in probably 90% of the world's population's eyes.

Of course, my mom is my biggest and loudest cheerleader, and my family and friends are happy for me, but I'm still just Angie, not Angie-the-author-with-this-hyped-up-book. I appreciate that.

It's impossible to let fame go to your head when you still live in North Shields in a flat with your mum.

I'm not a great actor - let's face it. I don't have a great deal of scope. There are certain things I can do, but when I'm bad, I stink. There's something about my shaggy dog eyes that makes people think I'm good. I'm not all that good.

I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.

Sometimes you're just regular. Sometimes you wake up, and your breath stinks like everybody else, and you had a bad hair day.

There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks.