Values & Character: Humility Quotes

"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

"You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty"

Louisa May Alcott, Novelist

William Cowper, Poet

"Sit down, be humble"

Kendrick Lamar, Musician

"Take off the fake humble"

Kendrick Lamar, Musician

"I can do small things in a great way"

James Freeman Clarke, Clergyman

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

Samuel Rutherford, Theologian

"Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them"

Luc de Clapiers, Writer

"I am an ordinary person"

Frances McDormand, Actress

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

Robert Kiyosaki, Author

"I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven years ago when I first did this kind of work"

Maria Mitchell, Scientist

"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

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

John Cusack, Actor

"I'm not so proud to think that anything is unworthy, and I don't think I was that way 10 years ago"

Thomas Haden Church, Actor

"I love knowing that I'm not better than any other person on the planet"

Thomas Haden Church, Actor

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

Jean Racine, Dramatist

"In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude"

Marya Mannes, Journalist

"Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call"

Saul Perlmutter, Scientist

"I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things"

Ian Mckellen, Actor

"True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be"

Ralph W. Sockman, Leader

"No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress"

William Law, Clergyman

"In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will!"

Boris Pasternak, Novelist

"At this point in my life, I'm not bent on proving anything, really"

Edward Norton, Actor

"The beauty of being human is that we are all flawed, and in our flaws we find our shared humanity"

Yung Pueblo, Writer

"Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others"

Francois Fenelon, Clergyman

"We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays"

Kim Campbell, Statesman

"Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others, and not judge"

Judith Light, Actress

"I'm not a media darling. I'm not on the cover of all these magazines. I just quietly do my thing"

Sarah McLachlan, Musician

"Awards don't really mean much"

Uta Hagen, Actress

"Great cataclysmic things can go by, and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out"

James Levine, Musician

"Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth"

Jessica Savitch, Journalist

"The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing"

Paul Harris, Lawyer

"I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection"

Gene Tierney, Actress

"As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"I was not cut out to be a rebel"

Gene Tierney, Actress

"On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be"

Brian Clough, Athlete

"I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken"

Oliver Cromwell, Soldier

"To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance"

Jeremy Taylor, Clergyman

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