Values & Character: Humility Quotes

"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

"I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir"

Jamie Lee Curtis, Actress

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

Missy Elliot, Musician

"I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible"

Rachel Weisz, Actress

"Dignity belongs to the conquered"

Kenneth Burke, Philosopher

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

James Otis, Lawyer

"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

"Just the fact that I'm in the game is great. I'm just blessed to be working. I got a plan, but I'm humble and I try to be humble"

Mike Epps, Comedian

"It sounds odd coming from me, but I realize what I say and how I look has a great impact"

Ayumi Hamasaki, Musician

"It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so"

William Whitelaw, Politician

"I'm not the type who'll yell about my achievements from the rooftops"

Aishwarya Rai, Actress

"I don't think of myself as a role model"

Treat Williams, Actor

"I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know"

Derek Bok, Lawyer

"I try not to have too much of an ego. I'll do anything"

Rob Schneider, Comedian

"I'm not perfect at all"

Liv Tyler, Actress

"Honestly, I didn't know I was a role model"

Treat Williams, Actor

"I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning"

Mira Sorvino, Actress

"But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented"

Taylor Hackford, Director

"A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people bow down to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour"

Shirley Manson, Musician

"The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship"

Peter Coyote, Actor

"In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart"

Donald G. Mitchell, Writer

"I don't want to take fame for granted because that is when you start to think you are better than everyone else. That is when you start thinking that you are someone that you are not"

Mandy Moore, Musician

"I am continually embarrassed by people who point me out as an example of what can be done without training"

Kate Smith, Musician

"If I go to a seminar and someone like you or someone like him is talking, I'm never part of the group that rushes him directly afterward. I always wait in the back corner with my head down until everyone is gone, and then I go up and do my thing"

Arthur Godfrey, Entertainer

"You never toot your own horn"

Zakk Wylde, Musician

"I'm humble enough to wait and just chill. I'm having fun just working with these good people, man"

Mike Epps, Comedian

"I didn't come into the business to get awards or titles"

Julie Walters, Actress

"I'm not part of the cultural elite. I'm a down-home girl. Always have been, always will be"

Lauren Hutton, Model

"Well, I don't find glamour and clothing relevant"

Tea Leoni, Actress

"I hate elitists. I hate conceited people. I hate pompous people"

Neil Cavuto, Journalist

"I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much"

Julie Christie, Actress

"I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't"

Star Jones, Entertainer

"To me, the whole idea of fame, and I think it can be a real test of somebody, of who they are. You know, 'cause some strange things happen. I've seen some peculiar things as far as a person just living their life"

Tobey Maguire, Actor

"I never ask anyone for anything. I've just not been brought up like that"

Katie Price, Model

"The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile"

Warren Cuccurullo, Musician

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