To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

To be recognized for the hard work my team and I put into ‚Starboy‘ is an honor.

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

I didn’t get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn’t have the recognition that I have now.

I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

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

I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

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

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

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

The nice thing is that when people come up to me, it’s the football they remember, not all the other rubbish.

I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

People are always coming up to me and saying, ‚I heard your dad’s speech, and it’s really great.‘ And they’ll mention some place I didn’t even know my dad was going to.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

Applause waits on success.

I’m the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

I’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?

Being humble matters.

I want to support other women because of the opportunities I’ve had – and I’ve had a lot of opportunities. What I try as a female director is to do the best job I can and, in the meantime, bring attention to as many other female directors and writers as I can.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Be the chief but never the lord.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

No one but a fool is always right.

I always entertain the notion that I’m wrong, or that I’ll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing.

The last thing you want is to not be recognized for all of the hard work you put in.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

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.

For my generation, the bomber jacket is like a replacement for the suit jacket. It’s a piece that men wear every day, and it’s something that I would wear for any occasion, whether it’s on the street or going to an awards ceremony.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

There’s a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven’t. You just do the best you can.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

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.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

In many ways, when you’re a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

It’s a very strange thing being recognized or looked upon as someone special.

I don’t make people bend over backwards, and I don’t like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

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