Values & Character: Humility Quotes

"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

"I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it"

George Takei, Actor

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

Franz Grillparzer, Poet

"If you are the greatest, why would you go around talking about it?"

Joe Rogan, Comedian

"The marathon can humble you"

Bill Rodgers, Athlete

"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

"I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond"

Anthony Michael Hall, Actor

"There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal"

Anne Wilson Schaef, Writer

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

Cesar Chavez, Activist

"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

"We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more"

Madame Swetchine, Writer

"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 am very down to earth and practical"

Ashley Olsen, Actress

"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'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

"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

"Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything"

Joseph Jarman, Musician

"I just consider myself a piece of the puzzle and I'm lucky enough to be asked or invited to the party, if you will. I hope I can bring some laughs and grimaces to the fans"

Adam Baldwin, Actor

"I just admire everybody and sit in awe and watch them"

Fred Willard, Comedian

"I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way'"

Neale Donald Walsch, Author

"I was not too smart and constantly mouthed off and didn't know anything"

Gil Kane, Artist

"When it comes to size, most people don't want to see themselves looking bigger than what they are"

Missy Elliot, Musician

"Dignity belongs to the conquered"

Kenneth Burke, Philosopher

"I've never directed, but it must be humbling"

Holly Hunter, Actress

"I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, 'Does this suck?' and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, 'I'm on fire, I'm amazing!' and I don't think that's the way to work"

David O. Russell, Director

"I do not say that, when brought to the test, I shall be invincible"

James Otis, Lawyer

"I'm a very modest person"

Drew Brees, Athlete

"I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and others have gathered the fruits"

Charles Goodyear, Inventor

"And it blew my mind when I started to get wind of the fact that they actually liked me being around. That was humbling, because Kentucky basketball is a big deal, and I am not the biggest fan - I am just the most notorious one"

Ashley Judd, Actress

"I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting"

Bernie Ebbers, Businessman

"The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility"

Thomas S. Monson, Clergyman

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