Quotes About Humility

The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the person being interviewed.

[It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants.

I don't claim anything of the work. It is his work. I am like a little pencil in his hand. That is all. He does the thinking. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.

Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.

The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen.

I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now.

I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.

It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.

I would really love to work with Paul McCartney. Isn't that arrogant?

Do the work, enjoy the work, take it seriously, don't take yourself seriously and keep your head down!

Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it.

Watch who you have around you, and focus, work hard, and be humble, and try to be good.

A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else, and if you really work hard, you might get lucky and get what you want.

[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.

I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.

We are to work after no set fashion of high endeavor; but to walk with Jesus, performing, as it were, a ministry on foot, that we may stop at the humblest matter, and prove our fidelity there.

The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do.

I'm not a master; I'm just a hard-working filmmaker. I would like everyone to see me as a friend rather than a master.

Show so clearly that this matter is God's work, not mine.

Grandiosity lessens as work proceeds.

The magnificently humble. The enormously small. The meaningfully ridiculous. Robert Walser's work often reads like a dazzling answer to the question, How immense can modesty be?

A lot of my work is with children and there's a reason for that, because they really level you.

When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.

Abandon fancy theologies and imaginary ideas and do some ordinary daily work... {Engage in this work with} unswerving kindness and unending patience.