Celia Green Quotes

You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.

Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.

People become concerned with being more humble than other people.

Self-seeking, self-glory, that is not me. No. Many people say I embarrass them with my humility.

How do I stay humble? Because I'm the best at being humble.

The way my father raised me, we don't pat ourselves on the back. We don't call ourselves great, we let other people do that.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

I'm a humble guy, okay?

I don't do proud.

Forget 'full of myself,' I'm not remotely impressed with myself.

I'm quite modest. I don't want to tell people I'm a leader.

I'm quite obviously not the world's most handsome man - I'm the second world's most handsome man!

I can’t talk about myself that way. Whatever I did before was just in line with my work. I can’t be saying I, I, I all the time.

You don’t have to humiliate yourself to show some humility.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

I was never that kid who used to brag about anything.

I'll downplay myself before I compliment myself.

I'm a very humble guy.

My father always shied away from attention. Whenever he'd get a compliment, he'd downplay it.

I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art!

What is modesty but inverted pride?

Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.

I know, it's amazing, but I never feel like I have done anything. When people say that, it makes me uncomfortable because I'm not that kind of person. I just go out there and try to do my job.

The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.

I've always at least tried to be self-deprecating when I say anything about myself. As long as you set the bar low, it will keep people from putting you on a pedestal, so they can't knock you off.