Freddy Adu Quotes

I'm not - I'm not a person looking for money. I have no political ambitions whatsoever. I don't seek power. I don't seek any kind of praise. I have no ego to fulfill.

Practice radical humility. Take no credit for your talents, intellectual abilities, aptitudes, or proficiencies. Be in a state of awe and bewilderment.

... do not spare me in anything -- let there be less and less of me in everything.

Be grateful as your deeds become less and less associated with your name, as your feet ever more lightly tread the earth.

Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.

The truest self-respect is not to think of self.

God looks with favor at pure, not full, hands.

Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

At my funeral, if one said, 'Nick was a generous person,' trust me I won't be doing cartwheels in my coffin. Recognition from people is never and never will be a goal. Some people strive for that respect or honor. Living a life to just reach for the position and status is vanity and sin.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

True humility is contentment.

We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.

O ye gods, grant unto me to have little and to want nothing.

It don't take a lot to make me happy. I'm not spoiled like that.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.

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.

I, sir, I just like to work. I'm humble.

First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.

I know what the important things are in life. I know that just because I pretend to be someone else for two hours on the silver screen doesn't make me a better person than the next man. So, I mind all those things. Simple things.

Work at being a humble person.

Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you.

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.