Values & Character: Humility Quotes

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

Warren Cuccurullo, Musician

"I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty"

Naomi Campbell, Model

"I'm not like a gorgeous bombshell or anything like that"

Utada Hikaru, Musician

"It's kind of weird, because I look at myself as just a normal person. My friends get rejected all the time, so why shouldn't I? I don't think I'm anything special"

Nick Carter, Musician

"Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger"

Abraham Cahan, Author

"I have no illusions at all about being a sex symbol. None of my former girlfriends ever thought of me that way, and I don't have any packs of women chasing me down the street like a Brad Pitt or someone like that"

Tobey Maguire, Actor

"None of us are really dumb and none of us are really smart. We're in the middle"

Daniel Johns, Musician

"I try to make myself look as normal as possible because I like people to relate to me"

Nick Carter, Musician

"Yes, I am proud, and very humble too"

Anne Sullivan, Educator

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

George Takei, Actor

"As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff"

Colin Firth, Actor

"It was never about winning medals or being famous"

Nancy Kerrigan, Athlete

"Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is"

John Chrysostom, Clergyman

"The marathon can humble you"

Bill Rodgers, Athlete

"I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky"

Colin Firth, Actor

"But to be self-obsessed is simply not O.K. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world"

Christiane Amanpour, Journalist

"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

"There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance"

Arthur Helps, Historian

"I would endeavour to deserve my life, Sire"

Thomas Blood, Soldier

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

Madame Swetchine, Writer

"Why would I want to have 10 Ferraris, 20 watches with diamonds or two planes? What would these objects do for me and for the world?"

Sadio Mané, Athlete

"Never come to help people with your ego. Come to help them with your humility"

Angélique Kidjo, Musician

"I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning"

Renee Vivien, Poet

"Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters"

Margaret Halsey, Author

"In my younger years my dedication may have expressed itself egotistically"

Cyril Cusack, Actor

"I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do"

Mary Lou Retton, Athlete

"Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed"

William Shenstone, Poet

"Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature, which one would think might dispose us to modesty"

Jeremy Collier, Clergyman

"I believe in the power of weakness"

Pat Buckley, Clergyman

"Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain"

Joe Davis, Celebrity

"I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother"

Satish Kumar, Activist

"I'm not saying I'm something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are"

Martina Hingis, Athlete

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

Joseph Jarman, Musician

"I don't think as big and as creative as Joss"

Julie Benz, Actress

"For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed"

Mary Lou Retton, Athlete

"I don't want to be known as somebody that everybody knows about"

Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Actor

"Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion"

Major Taylor, Athlete

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

Holly Hunter, Actress

"Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose"

Cullen Hightower, Writer

"I never forget my old days, and I never fly too high; I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!"

Natasha Henstridge, Actress

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