Maybe it’s a cultural thing, being Korean, but my first reflex has always been to exude humility – but it doesn’t help you in acting. For acting, humility isn’t the best thing. It’ll weaken your work.
Beckett was the most thorough of playwrights. He tells you what to do and if you’ve any humility at all, you’ll take his advice.
Far more books get written about how to get more people in your church than how to get the people already in your church to have more humility and sincere love.
Porto helped me quite a bit but I worked really hard, with lots of enthusiasm and humility and with my mind always focused on returning to Real Madrid. It was a fantastic year on a personal level.
There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.
If I want to leave one thing here after I’m gone, it would be an incredible sense of humility.
In ethics, there is a humility; moralists are usually righteous.
Mankind is like dogs, not gods – as long as you don’t get mad they’ll bite you – but stay mad and you’ll never be bitten. Dogs don’t respect humility and sorrow.
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
I think our devotion to Mary is very beautiful. She has a sacred role in Catholicism, and her strong faith and humility are things we can learn from.
When you’re a politician, someone always wants something from you, so they’re constantly telling you how smart or great you are, and that can warp people! Exercising humility is important to me. My friends back home treat me like the same person I was when I was waiting tables.
When I sang in bars and weddings, where you have to fight to be heard, you gain incredible humility.
I feel coming on a strange disease – humility.
Am I cocky or conceited? I’m definitely cocky. But at the root is confidence and humility.
I believe that what is really important is that God can speak to us. If we have the humility to approach him in prayer with the right attitude, he can speak to our intelligence directly.
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
Something my father dearly loved is the scientific method, and it’s founded in this element of humility. The idea is that you pursue the truth wherever it goes; you need to evidence, and you can – you see if it’s repeatable.
I like having my mistakes corrected, but I wonder if it’s because you’re forced to have a certain humility if you’re not an affluent white man.
Sergio Aguero is a high-quality player. I’m a big fan of his, both of his football and his humility.
Where there is humility, there is more success, and lasting success.
I’m grateful for my brokenness. I’m grateful for my humility.
I don’t think there’s any reason in journalism not to approach stories we cover with humility, empathy, compassion, and intellectual openness. I mean, I think those are just important human traits. I don’t think that precludes scrutiny, negativity, where it’s appropriate.
Learning to accept failure on multiple levels is, to my way of thinking, the key to become a world-class therapist. But that means humility, and setting your ego aside, while you develop superb new technical skills.
I think that’s the ultimate sign of a teammate and respect is that they compete against one another so hard at practice that here’s a chance to share some knowledge inside. It takes some humility to do that.
We all need a lot of humility, and especially about the economy.
Expecting to be wrong about most things most of the time brings, finally, the kind of humility that leads to peace. I think.
When you step out there on the field as a corner in our system, you have to be ready to play because humility is one week away.
It’s near impossible to always be right when you’re innovating. It’s easy to get emotionally invested in it, but you need to monitor its impact like a hawk and react if you don’t like what you see. And if/when you pull it back, you want to do that communication with transparency and humility.
The most important thing is that you treat everybody incredibly well and lead with a bit of humility. I’ve found that when I go into a company to lead, it’s important to have a plan and to make that plan a simple one that everybody can understand.
Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient – philanthropic prudence is also needed.
In all humility, I don’t know that an endorsement from Mark Meadows is going to make a difference as much as the commitment of that particular candidate to really represent the people.
When you meet someone who gives you good advice for your own, you must have the humility to listen.
I don’t have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there’s a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don’t inflict harm where it’s not necessary.
If zeal had been appropriate for putting humanity right, why did God the Word clothe himself in the body, using gentleness and humility in order to bring the world back to his Father?
It’s very rewarding when you know you’re affecting a young person in a positive way, when you know you’re helping influence them in the right direction. Teaching them by example, giving them examples, showing humility and respect and love for your child and wife.
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
I think living with humility, and serving with humility, is one of the most important things humans can do.
Unrestrained zeal to make the world better could make it worse. Promoting democracy must be undertaken with humility, care, and wisdom.
It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.
But certainly, I think that it’s important to have humility and to acknowledge that you’re learning every day as a leader.
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
The best way to learn how to work with actors is to have had experience of trying to act yourself – it will teach you humility if nothing else.
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
Rajinikanth is humility personified. He’s a huge star in India, and people are dying to just see him on the screen.
And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn’t have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.
You want to have the perfect balance of hot and funny on your Instagram, but you never want too much of either… Don’t try to add humility to your blatant ‘hot’ posts through a half-hearted attempt at being funny. You look good; just own it.
I loved being poor, because it teaches you humility.
There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.
Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.
If I’m appearing on ‘Raw,’ then I’m usually there to help sell tickets to something, and that’s when you see the ‘HBK’ Shawn Michaels come out. At panels, I can be more open and honest and show some more humility. They don’t want me talking about my family on TV, but I can in a panel setting.
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
I’m coming from a place of total strength and humility now.
Practice radical humility. Take no credit for your talents, intellectual abilities, aptitudes, or proficiencies. Be in a state of awe and bewilderment.
Humor, humility, and, of course, honesty, all are qualities that work in public and cultural diplomacy.
I beg the Most High to allow me the favour of the double reward, but if God only finds me worthy of one reward, I will accept it in all humility.
Life is a long lesson in humility.
Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?
But when one believes that you’ve been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?
Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.
Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
What you’re doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself.
