Values & Character: Humility Quotes

"Heretics are to be converted by an example of humility and other virtues far more readily than by any external display or verbal battles. So let us arm ourselves with devout prayers and set off, showing signs of genuine humility, and go barefoot to combat Goliath"

Pope Gregory IX, Pope

"I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom"

Parker Stevenson, Actor

"It's better to have a rich soul than to be rich"

Olga Korbut, Athlete

"Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned must be obscure and unostentatious"

Marguerite Gardiner, Writer

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

Dorothy Day, Activist

"Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"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 get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else"

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Dancer

"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"

Saint Aurelius Augustine, Theologian

"We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true"

Ted Danson, Actor

"Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable"

Richard Steele, Dramatist

"I am not interested in medals or titles. I don't need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it"

Olga Korbut, Athlete

"I can take criticisms, but not compliments"

James Taylor, Musician

"On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they'd let me know right away"

John Ratzenberger, Actor

"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

"Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility"

Adam Clarke, Theologian

"As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples"

Adam Clarke, Theologian

"I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life"

Cameron Diaz, Actress

"Even in the very beginning when she would bump into George Valentine and people would start taking pictures of her, she never thought, 'I'm with George Valentine. I need to get a picture with him". She's like "Oh that's funny. Everyone's taking pictures!'"

Berenice Bejo, Actress

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

Oliver Cromwell, Soldier

"Nobody is as good as he thinks he is"

Kenneth L. Pike, Sociologist

"I'm always open for people saying I'm wrong because most of the time I am"

Prince William, Royalty

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

Yung Pueblo, Writer

"I think I'm a good Canadian, but I'm not the greatest Canadian"

Donald Stewart Cherry, Journalist

"Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory"

Emily Post, Author

"But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through"

Beatrice Wood, Artist

"I don't care about how many times somebody recognizes my face"

Suge Knight, Producer

"It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer"

Juliette Binoche, Actress

"I know I'm only one human being and I'm only making one tiny contribution and it's nothing more than that"

Halle Berry, Actress

"If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony"

Victoria Wood, Comedian

"We must never confuse elegance with snobbery"

Yves Saint Laurent, Designer

"I don't really feel that I deserve all my applause"

Willie Stargell, Athlete

"Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"He who knows himself best esteems himself least"

H. G. Bohn, Publisher

"I have no inflated ideas about success anyway"

Trevor Dunn, Musician

"You mustn't take any award so seriously"

Tony Randall, Actor

"When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner"

Halle Berry, Actress

"To be physically fit is just a small aspect. You can be a beautiful physical specimen, but you're empty as far as what it takes to be a person, and that shows up real fast"

Lee Haney, Athlete

"Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"I'm really not that special. Really, I'm not. I was on a big TV show, but it was just a TV show"

Clay Aiken, Musician

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