I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‚star‘ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

I say that in the most humble way: I always knew that I could perform with the best of ‚em and I could deliver with the best of ‚em.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

Don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

Many people look at me and think they know me but they don’t at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.

I’m not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I’m seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

I don’t consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

I wouldn’t say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

I’m not a god – I do bad things.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Humility may well be one of the most difficult of the fruit of the Spirit to be cultivated in us – and to maintain. That’s because without humility, it’s not likely that you will put your complete trust in God.

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

I can’t stand to see myself on television.

I didn’t like the way I looked in pictures – when I saw myself on a digital camera, I was like, ‚Eesh.‘

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

I said I was ‚The Greatest,‘ I never said I was the smartest!

I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.

Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way – pouty.

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.

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

The chimpanzee study was – well, it’s still going on, and I think it’s taught us perhaps more than anything else to be a little humble; that we are, indeed, unique primates, we humans, but we’re simply not as different from the rest of the animal kingdom as we used to think.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

I haven’t written my own epitaph, and I’m not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it will point people not to me, but to the One I served.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

I wouldn’t put myself forward to do a film like ‚Changeling‘ if I thought I couldn’t pull people into a story because of all the other ways people see me.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

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

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.

I’m sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

People ask, ‚Should I call you Sir Hopkins?‘ But I say, ‚No. Call me Tony,‘ because it’s too much of a lift-up.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

I’m not the judge. You know, God didn’t tell me to go around judging everybody.

In the beginning, I was very insecure. I hated how I looked in pictures.