Quotes About Humility

Nadie puede ejercer la paternidad sin cometer errores.

I've never viewed myself as above anybody else or anything like that. I'm a regular guy at the end of the day. I like Cinnamon Toast Crunch and The Powerpuff Girls.

I don't have the wherewithal to judge God's will. I don't have the wherewithal to determine whether your viewpoints are right or wrong.

You don't want to vilify your ego.

I was born and raised in a small village, and I didn't even think I was especially pretty.

I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.

Believe me, you don't want to play to an audience of seven in a village hall in Cumbernauld.

I am a method actor, but I'm also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don't have humility, whether they are heroes or villains, are hard to relate to. All characters in every aspect of what we do should have humility. If they don't, then they're a cartoon character.

I don't need to be vindicated, and I don't want attention.

I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously.

The irony is that 'looking down on everybody else' is a violation of the law of love, which, according to Jesus, is the absolute essence of righteousness.

I am not a violent person. I actually don't like to hurt people.

I don't like winning in a violent way.

Next to my mom, I'm actually a shrinking violet.

I don't want to be a VIP. I want to be an LIP, a Less Important Person.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was definitely not encouraged, and pleasure or pride would be punishable by death.

Humility is of central importance; I think it's an underappreciated virtue in the contemporary discussion of law and politics.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

I do believe in Christ, but I would not hold myself up as any paragon of virtue at all - far from it, really.