Quotes About Humility

On n'a rien trouvé, on n'a rien inventé. Nous ne pouvons rien savoir sinon que nous ne savons rien. C'est là le degré suprême de la sagesse humaine. (Guerre et Paix, livre deuxième, 2ième partie, ch. I)

It is the mythic experience, the mythic imagination that opens, reveals depth and mystery, which places the human in the context of the nonhuman, and so, forces retreat, humility, and awe, in the presence of spaces beyond our will.

A real hero doesn't expect to be thanked or even recognized.

Alan parafraseó la cita y la llevaba siempre en su billetera: "En el preciso instante en que todos dicen lo grande que es uno, es cuando uno se torna en más vulnerable". Walt la había llamado la "Zona Roja". Alan se imaginó que ya se encontraba en la Zona Roja y estaba determinado a evitar sus peligros.

Jesus didn't come to earth and identify with the rich, the successful, and the most influential. He entered the world as a pauper. He entered the world not in the comfort of his parents' home, nor in the company of smiling relatives or even the safety of a hospital. He arrived in the humbles of places, in the lowliest of circumstances. God hid the mystery of the kingdom in the lives of the most needy.

Irony and sarcasm, pointed jabbing criticism, personal mockery, public humiliation, exasperation, managerial tantrums, eye-rolling: These are the true enemies of essential change. To make an organization change-receptive, you need to rout all of these various kinds of disrespect from the culture. Replace them with a clearly felt sense that people at all levels are to be honored for the struggle they've been willing to take on.

I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.

The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.

I take offence if I'm called arrogant, because I've been brought up in a family that does not endorse arrogance.

I don't expect people to know my name. I don't get offended if people don't know me.

I learned from different guys I played with, too. The key was probably three people: The good Lord, the offensive linemen I played with and great fullbacks that could block very well.

If someone needs help, I can offer advice. I'm not always right and people don't always listen.

Simple people have much to offer. We, too, in return, must give to them to the best of our abilities. We must, with all our heart, try to help them acquire what they truly deserve.

Men should friendly confer together, and offer one another their gifts and knowledge in love, and try things one with another, and hold that which is best, and not so stand in their own opinion as if they could not err.

Being a 'hunk' is going to do great things for my love life, and I'll get a lot more offers. But I'll certainly never see myself as one.

Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed.

I don't market myself too well. I just get odd offers once in a while.

I've been really lucky. I'll completely forget that I'm a celebrity. And then something will happen, and I'll go, 'Oh, right.'

Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.

Listen: I'm OK cute. I'm no stunner.

As long as you know, within yourself, that you're no better than anyone else out there, you're OK.

I'll believe I made it when I'm 100 years old, I'm still able to get work, and they're about to put me in a coffin, and I'll be like, 'Yeah, OK, it went all right.' But until then, I'm not saying it.

I'm not one that really soaks up the limelight. I'm OK with kind of escaping it.

I'm one of those people who would be OK with fading back into the background a little bit.