Values & Character: Humility Quotes

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"If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more"

John Templeton, Businessman

"The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be"

John Templeton, Businessman

"But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions"

Homer, Poet

Homer

"I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me"

Billy Joel, Musician

"I think it's really important for me not to forget where I came from"

Anna Kournikova, Athlete

Anna Kournikova

"I know that I'm never as good or bad as any single performance. I've never believed my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena"

Charles Barkley, Athlete

Charles Barkley

"I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena"

Charles Barkley, Athlete

Charles Barkley

"My talents fall within definite limitations. I am not as versatile an actress as some think"

Greta Garbo, Actress

Greta Garbo

"I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates!"

Angela Carter, Novelist

Angela Carter

"For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them"

Nicolaus Copernicus, Scientist

"I know my flaws before other people point them out to me"

Taylor Swift, Musician

Taylor Swift

"To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself"

Richard Whately, Writer

"I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"Hubris itself will not let you be an artist"

Larry Wall, Author

"You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

"It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones and Jack Ryan. I don't want to be in the Harrison Ford business. I take what I do seriously, but I don't take myself seriously"

Harrison Ford, Actor

"I don't think it's healthy to take yourself too seriously"

Payne Stewart, Athlete

"I was always very grateful, I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored"

Harrison Ford, Actor

"If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail"

Francis Quarles, Poet

"Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed"

Channing Pollock, Actor

"I never thought about being famous"

Damon Wayans, Comedian

"O, popular applause! What heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?"

William Cowper, Poet

"I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

Anna Quindlen

"The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity"

Max Beerbohm, Actor

"I can do small things in a great way"

James Freeman Clarke, Clergyman

"Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless"

J. G. Holland, Novelist

"I am an ordinary person"

Frances McDormand, Actress

Frances McDormand

"I still consider myself a little fat kid from Hawaii"

Robert Kiyosaki, Author

"It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality"

Max Beerbohm, Actor

"On their own merits, modest men are dumb"

George Colman, Dramatist

"Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better"

Ted Turner, Businessman

"Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests"

Max Beerbohm, Actor

"I was never interested in being an overly public person"

John Cusack, Actor

John Cusack

"The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes"

Jean Racine, Dramatist

"The only reason anyone ever called me a hero is because I get this paper, here"

Kyle Chandler, Actor

Kyle Chandler

"The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the person being interviewed"

Ken Burns, Director

Ken Burns

"Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters"

Jean Toomer, Author

"When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose he means also, that we must be sensible of our weakness, comparatively speaking, as a little child"

George Whitefield, Clergyman

George Whitefield

"Ego clouds and disrupts everything: the planning process, the ability to take good advice, and the ability to accept constructive criticism"

Jocko Willink, Soldier

Jocko Willink

"Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will"

Samuel Rutherford, Theologian

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