Quotes About Humility

You'll make bundle of blunders if you consider yourself too clever to look at anothers work.

The best writers I've read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much.

I knew that (job) had to be a humbling role for my dad, but he never allowed it to become humiliating work.

No doctor knows everything. There's a reason why it's called "practising" medicine.

You can't strut around in my house, because everybody has their own achievements.

The No. 1 thing you should know about me: I've always tried to put God first in my life, and I'm the first to admit I often have failed because I'm too proud and too stubborn.

In a kidnapping, you leave behind a lot of your baggage, like arrogance and stubbornness.

You could be the most beautiful girl, but if you're stuck up, that doesn't do it for me.

I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.

A lot of athletes are stuck on themselves and don't want to socialize and that kind of thing. When I see that, I hate it.

I don't really consider myself a stud.

I'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student.

I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.

'Saw,' in many ways, was like my student film. The first crappy student film you don't really want people to see.

With 6 kids, I still pay off my student loans. I still pay my mortgage. I drive a used minivan. If you think I'm living high off the hog, I've got one paycheck.

If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything.

I am the world's most appalling martial artist. I am so bad. I've studied jujitsu, kickboxing, t'ai chi. Once, I was sparring with someone, made a mistake, and managed to knock them down. I was so shocked that I dropped to my knees to see if they were all right, and then they knocked me out cold. From the floor.

I actually studied literature and philosophy. So, when I started making films, I didn't really know what I was doing, and I was too proud and arrogant to learn.

I lived in a studio apartment until my mid-30s. I don't have an extravagant lifestyle.

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

I make these little films. I'm just a working person. I just study people a little bit more. It's more sociological, and it's funny anyway - not that serious. It's not like false humility. I just take it for what it is.

It is true that I have been studying both humility and pride for many years for the purpose of weakening pride in my own life and cultivating humility by the grace of God.

We got stuffed 4-1, but it was just great to play against, it was like an education. You think you are half good and then you go and play against a side like that!

What's positive is moving from a place of growing in faith to really feeling more grounded in faith, to understand that faith is hard, that I'll stumble, that I'll make mistakes, that I'll sin. But, that's part of being on a faith path; it's part of being a human being.