Quotes About Humility

Greatness is not always largeness.

Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.

Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.

I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy.

Bowing his head

What I learned is that it's arrogant to be certain of anything. The world is a complex place and only idiots or assholes think they know it all.

There's power in humility. It's one of the toughest lessons I've had to learn.

If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.

Ultimately, when you write from a vantage point of faith, humility, and openness to the world around you, people have to respond because those same truths are instilled in them.

I suck at golf and a variety of other things I go out and do with my friends.

I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.

We are all responsible to Jesus first, and then, under him, to various other persons and offices. Discerning the path of love and obedience when two or more of these submissive relationships collide is a call to humble, Bible-saturated, spiritual wisdom.

It might be arrogant to think that we're the only living creations in all of the solar systems that there are. Space is so vast.

If we find life out there, and it's not us, we will deem it not intelligent. But what may be equally as likely is that we find life that's vastly more intelligent than we are. If that's the case, we are putty in their hands.

No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man.

For me, watching Mohamed Salah play football is not unlike staring up at the stars and contemplating the vastness of the universe: it makes my own life seem nice and small.

I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

I am not a trained swimmer nor I know how to drive a vehicle.

Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.

If people want to write about my mum's bathroom in her house, all I have to tell you is that 15 years ago, we were cleaning toilets in Stonebridge and getting breakfast out of the vending machine. If anybody deserves to be happy, it's my mum.

People have been unkind to me, but I do not want to swear vengeance. I am a simple human being.

I want to be indifferent to vengeance. It's degrading. Not having a spirit of vengeance protects me, internally.

As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware of playing at praying; it is insolence toward God.

I never put myself at a bragging point where I say, 'I'm gonna have the illest verse.'