Values & Character: Humility Quotes

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"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

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

Kim Campbell, Statesman

"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

"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

Sarah McLachlan

"Awards don't really mean much"

Uta Hagen, Actress

"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

Thomas Haden Church

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

Thomas Haden Church, Actor

Thomas Haden Church

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

Marya Mannes, Journalist

"It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously"

Logan P. Smith, Writer

"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

Paul Harris

"Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call"

Saul Perlmutter, Scientist

Saul Perlmutter

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

Gene Tierney, Actress

Gene Tierney

"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

"I was not cut out to be a rebel"

Gene Tierney, Actress

Gene Tierney

"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

"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

"I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it"

Calvin Klein, Designer

Calvin Klein

"I don't think about my fame very much"

Calvin Klein, Designer

Calvin Klein

"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

"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

"To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance"

Jeremy Taylor, Clergyman

"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

Boris Pasternak

"The 'equilibrium' that people see in me is really an illusion. I am as flawed as anyone. It's only that I seem to have the knack of hiding"

Erich Segal, Novelist

Erich Segal

"To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind"

Thomas Hood, Poet

Thomas Hood

"I never want to get to the point where it's all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else"

Drew Barrymore, Actress

Drew Barrymore

"I am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense"

Christina Milian, Musician

Christina Milian

"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

James Levine

"For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted"

Jesus Christ, Prophet

Jesus Christ

"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

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

William Osler, Scientist

"You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It's not that important"

Victoria Beckham, Musician

Victoria Beckham

"I have never been an innovator, a creative genius"

Lawrence Welk, Musician

"Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress"

Maimonides, Philosopher

"I can't say I have control over my emotions; I don't know my mind. I'm lost like everyone else. I'm certainly not a leader"

Richard Gere, Actor

"When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more"

Henry Fielding, Novelist

"All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

Samuel Richardson

"There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

Samuel Richardson

"Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

Samuel Richardson

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

Edward Norton, Actor

Edward Norton

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