Values & Character: Humility Quotes

"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

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

Thomas S. Monson, Clergyman

"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

"You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady"

Jennie Churchill, Celebrity

"With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured incessantly to cultivate the deepest humiliation before God"

Charles Simeon, Clergyman

"The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct"

John Fiske, Philosopher

"I really don't have that much interest in stardom"

Tom Verlaine, Musician

"I never had that star aura"

Lauren Holly, Actress

"I'm really proud of Twilight. I think it's a good movie. It was hard to do, and I think it turned out pretty good. But I don't take much credit for it. So when you show up at these places, and there's literally like a thousand girls and they're all screaming your name, you're like, why? You don't feel like you deserve it"

Kristen Stewart, Actress

"I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word"

John Hurt, Actor

"I'm an average person"

Jim Hodges, Politician

"Lynda Carter, I think the reason I liked her was because she was so down to earth. Even though she was a big star and she was Miss America, she was very approachable"

Thuy Trang, Actress

"We are the most powerful nation in the world, but we're not the only nation in the world. We are not the only people in the world. We are an important people, the wealthiest, the most powerful and, to a great extent, generous. But we are part of the world"

Studs Terkel, Journalist

"Credit you give yourself is not worth having"

Irving Thalberg, Producer

"Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down"

Charles Simeon, Clergyman

"The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride"

Harold Warner

"I have to be careful not to be too proud in life, because there is always room for improvement"

Sylvia Kristel, Actress

"If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life"

Chris Evert, Athlete

"It's not like I'm the most famous person in the world"

Ron Silver, Actor

"People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity"

Pete Sampras, Athlete

"Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are"

Leif Garrett, Musician

"What is the use being a big man if you are wrong?"

John Dos Passos, Novelist

"I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric"

Gerrit Smith, Politician

"It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer"

John Hurt, Actor

"I'm a good person, but with many defects"

Enrique Iglesias, Musician

"My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition"

Lajos Kossuth, Lawyer

"A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was"

Zebulon Pike, Soldier

"I can't judge my own stuff. That's for others. But those are the three things that I admire"

Mose Allison, Musician

"Acclaim is a distraction"

James Broughton, Director

"Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have"

Leigh Steinberg, Businessman

"I have never been one for the over-the-top"

Rick Allen, Musician

"I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk"

Joshua Homme, Musician

"When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward"

Robin Trower, Musician

"I think we were always humble"

Steve Brown, Musician

"As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men"

Gerrit Smith, Politician

"I do not like being famous. I like being normal"

Vince Gill, Musician

"You know, I hate to give advice because my life has been so odd that almost nothing that's happened to me can apply"

William Joyce, Author

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