Values & Character: Humility Quotes

Paul Farmer, Educator

"Humble souls are fearful of their own strength"

William Gurnall, Author

"I'm a passionate person. I'm a lot of things, like most people are. Most people are dynamic. The focus is not on me though, I'm a screen. The aim is to always keep myself in the position where the screen is clear"

Mos Def, Musician

"It's hard to talk about yourself"

Sugar Ray Leonard, Athlete

"Because we're human beings, we're not always going to be perfect"

Benny Hinn, Clergyman

"Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces"

William Gurnall, Author

"One thing that golf teaches you is humility"

Robert Wagner, Actor

"I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine, no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself"

Victoria Abril, Actress

"I'm still Sean that me mates went to school with, not Sean the film star. And that's the way I prefer to be"

Sean Bean, Actor

"My predictions are notably inaccurate"

Robert Caro, Writer

"I don't care about being a star. I can do a supporting role; I don't have to be a lead"

Tom Berenger, Actor

"In my life, I don't need to have my face plastered everywhere. It's not really something I want"

Alexis Bledel, Actress

"I'm not a God, I make mistakes"

Boris Becker, Athlete

"Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them"

Titus Livius, Historian

"The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered. Truth is, I don't lift a finger to look sexy. Ever"

Laura Prepon, Actress

"To test a modest man's modesty, do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism"

Franz Grillparzer, Poet

"I believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a young man, I prayed for success. Now I pray just to be worthy of it!"

Brendan Fraser, Actor

"We're far from perfect. It's a human enterprise"

Bob Schieffer, Journalist

"You are never strong enough that you don't need help"

Cesar Chavez, Activist

"The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become"

Meryl Streep, Actress

"Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility"

Johannes Tauler, Theologian

"Because in the school of the Spirit, man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying"

Johannes Tauler, Theologian

"I think you've got to have your feet planted firmly on the ground, especially in this business, and you must not believe things that are said or written about you, because everything gets out of proportion one way or the other"

Judi Dench, Actress

"I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it"

Anderson Cooper, Journalist

"I don't seek power and do not run around"

Benoit Mandelbrot, Mathematician

"An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something"

Benoit Mandelbrot, Mathematician

"I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many"

Saint Patrick, Saint

"Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new"

Steven Tyler, Musician

"The most important thing is to keep your feet on the ground"

Kylian Mbappé, Athlete

"I'm a very normal person. I'm very shy. I'm just a big kid"

Jason Momoa, Actor

"There are so many people in the world and not everybody knows who I am, some people do, but I just don't think a lot of people know who I am"

Jamie Kennedy, Actor

"I am very down to earth and practical"

Ashley Olsen, Actress

"Looks are temporary and don't mirror what's inside. And usually, a great looking man is so vain. Maybe most good-looking women are too. I hope I'm not!"

Dorothy Stratten, Celebrity

"I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it"

Hugh Downs, Entertainer

"I mean, I try to say the right things and give the right advice. But still, I'm only a person"

Jonathan Brandis, Actor

"I'm not a very good advice-giver"

Juliana Hatfield, Musician

"You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, "Congratulations, you must be so happy". And you say something stupid like, I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have"

Vin Diesel, Actor

"I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time"

Katie Couric, Journalist

"My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people"

John Philip Sousa, Musician

"People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues"

Elizabeth Gaskell, Novelist

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