Values & Character: Humility Quotes

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"And I'm not a personality; otherwise I'd be coming out with an album, performing on MTV. All that stuff is possible and I can do that tomorrow. I just have no need"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

Shia LaBeouf

"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

"Hubris itself will not let you be an artist"

Larry Wall, Author

"There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other"

Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Philosopher

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

"I never thought about being famous"

Damon Wayans, Comedian

"She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth"

Christina Rossetti, Poet

Christina Rossetti

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

Taylor Swift, Musician

Taylor Swift

"Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord"

Joseph Ratzinger, Clergyman

"Work at being a humble person"

John Templeton, Businessman

"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

"I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation"

Gustav Stresemann, Politician

Gustav Stresemann

"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

"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

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

Channing Pollock, Actor

"I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand"

Brigitte Bardot, Actress

"Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"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

"We rise in glory as we sink in pride"

Andrew Young, Clergyman

"The essence of greatness is neglect of the self"

James Anthony Froude, Historian

James Anthony Froude

"The better one is morally, the less aware they are of their virtue"

James Anthony Froude, Historian

James Anthony Froude

"There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta"

William Osler, Scientist

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

Anna Kournikova, Athlete

Anna Kournikova

"Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort!"

Henry Rollins, Musician

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

Greta Garbo, Actress

Greta Garbo

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

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

Anna Quindlen

"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

"The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity"

Max Beerbohm, Actor

"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

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

Max Beerbohm, Actor

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

Max Beerbohm, Actor

"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

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

Carter Burwell, Composer

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

Gustav Mahler, Composer

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

Jean Toomer, Author

"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

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