Values & Character: Humility Quotes

"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 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

"If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone"

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Actor

"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

"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

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

Sylvia Kristel, Actress

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

Ron Silver, Actor

"Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy"

Joshua Lederberg, Scientist

"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

"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

"The word of God teacheth lowliness of mind; it teacheth us to know ourselves"

John Jewel, Clergyman

"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

"But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation"

Thomas Day, Author

"When you have a background in combat sports, people think you're this martial arts expert, but really I'm just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself"

Rick Yune, Actor

"I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous"

Vince Gill, Musician

"If we learn not humility, we learn nothing"

John Jewel, Clergyman

"I am reluctant to judge things without being informed"

Giorgio Moroder, Producer

"I have a hard enough time speaking for myself - I don't pretend I can be a spokesman for anybody. I have no interest in playing that role"

Mathieu Kassovitz, Director

"Even if you have a bad game, you have to swallow your pride and sign. It takes a little time, but it makes the kids happy. And it makes you feel good, too"

Lorrie Fair, Athlete

"I'm aware of the fact that a lot of talented people out there will never get this chance"

Brad Paisley, Musician

"He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head"

Margot Asquith, Author

"I'm your average Joe guy. I don't really care for politicians!"

John Mellencamp, Musician

"You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun"

Elizabeth Gilbert, Novelist

"Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people"

Simon Cowell, Entertainer

"So much of how we act and what we do is based on humility or pride - that's everything. And when you can humble yourself, you know, we are more like Christ when we can humble ourselves"

Tim Tebow, Athlete

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