Values & Character: Humility Quotes

"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

"My aim in life is not to judge"

Jeanne Moreau, Actress

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

Colin Firth, Actor

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

John Chrysostom, Clergyman

"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 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 really didn't want to have my name on the center, because it just seemed like it was too much of a personal thing"

Betty Ford, First Lady

"I would endeavour to deserve my life, Sire"

Thomas Blood, Soldier

"Obedience to the word in humility of mind never confuses"

John Nelson Darby, Clergyman

"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

"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

"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

"Because I now realize, after all this time, I have never truly felt worthy of all that I have been given"

Wynonna Judd, Musician

"I did not have a reputation to defend"

Roman Polanski, Director

"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

"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'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever"

Danny Glover, Actor

"My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus"

Herbie Mann, Musician

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

Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Actor

"Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance"

Kenneth Clarke, Politician

"I am not better than anyone else just because I play football"

Tim Tebow, Athlete

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

Major Taylor, Athlete

"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

"Indeed, upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win"

Asa Gray, Scientist

"So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes"

Bill Bruford, Musician

"Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins"

Alphonsus Liguori, Clergyman

"I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person"

Alanis Morissette, Musician

"When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less"

Paul Brown, Coach

"Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it"

Jo Stafford, Musician

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