Values & Character: Humility Quotes

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

John Nelson Darby, Clergyman

"To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved"

Sidney Poitier, Actor

"The word majesty was now dropped; but, with the deepest respect and humility, I was addressed as the count. What could I do? I accepted the title, and from that moment I was known as Count Peter"

Adelbert von Chamisso, Poet

"I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me"

Willie Aames, Actor

"Do not boast of knowledge; test it by work and by benefit you bring to people"

Abai Qunanbaiuly, Poet

"I'm just a regular, degular shmegular girl from the Bronx"

Cardi B, Musician

"I'm not perfect. I'm not Superman. I'm just a human being"

Kirk Franklin, Musician

"I always think about myself as like a regular person. I want to be able to enjoy everything"

Joel Embiid, Athlete

"I'm not special. I'm a normal guy"

Khaby Lame, Celebrity

"Vulnerability is not weakness; it's the thing that connects us"

Jenna Bush Hager, Journalist

"Shoshin refers to a state of mind in which we approach every task and situation with the curiosity, openness and humility of a beginner"

Ali Abdaal, Entrepreneur

"Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption"

Anne Seward, Poet

"Judge not, lest you be so fearful of judgment that you can hardly breath"

Paul Williams, Writer

"It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown"

Diana Cooper, Celebrity

"Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired"

Delphine de Girardin, Novelist

"You gotta love these Christians, they're humble people"

Stephen Baldwin, Actor

"A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else, and if you really work hard, you might get lucky and get what you want"

Martina McBride, Musician

"I'm just a newsboy who met a President"

David Powers, Politician

"I definitely don't want to achieve some kind of rock star status"

Ethan Suplee, Actor

"In terms of being a role model, I didn't start out to be one. I don't go to work every day with that in mind. But I do get a lot of fan mail from young girls"

Victoria Pratt, Actress

"In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given"

Robert Hunter, Musician

"I'm the one by the backdoor - I am not the one in the middle of the party"

Stephanie Beacham, Actress

"Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still"

Isaac Watts, Politician

"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 feel about me like I'm one of the working people, just like you, and everybody else. I don't fit the part of a celebrity"

Doc Watson, Musician

"I did not have a reputation to defend"

Roman Polanski, Director

"I never thought that I was very intelligent"

Marion Zimmer Bradley, Writer

"A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility"

Laurel Lee

"Those placed in the position which I now occupy commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them"

Cecil Frank Powell, Physicist

"I am just a plain Jew; I mean, have no training"

Bebe Neuwirth, Actress

"You always think you're better than you are in the beginning"

Todd Barry, Comedian

"I just want to be treated like an average guy"

John Fahey, Musician

"But I say these things in an objective, dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me"

John Fahey, Musician

"As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself"

John Fahey, Musician

"I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche"

Richard O'Brien, Actor

"A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility"

Lawrence G. Lovasik, Clergyman

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

Danny Glover, Actor

"I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself"

Steve Carlton, Athlete

"Bing was always hesitant to accept appreciation in any form"

Bob Crosby, Musician

"If you live for fame, men may turn against you"

Matthew Simpson, Clergyman

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