Values & Character: Humility Quotes

"Most individuals have always thought themselves not big enough or significant enough to have an effect on the whole planet, a notion which conversely made them think they could afford big arrogance and big greed over its resources"

Lynette Fromme, Criminal

"I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with"

Stephen Dorff, Actor

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

Herbie Mann, Musician

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

Kenneth Clarke, Politician

"I am still simple, just as if I were beginning"

Compay Segundo, Musician

"I'm in that comfortable niche where I'm not that famous, and sometimes people do need to put a barrier between them and their followers. When you're real famous, you need to do that, but I'm not that famous, so I don't need that kind of barrier"

Tony Levin, Musician

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

Tim Tebow, Athlete

"For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes"

Shmuel Y. Agnon, Writer

"I also know that I am not a great technician"

John Fahey, Musician

"You forget how many people watch TV until you come into a town like this. Everybody knows you, and I'm always humbled, especially when there are 500 little kids who all have their hair done like yours and want to be designers"

Genevieve Gorder, Designer

"This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful"

Walter Lang, Director

"But I think that I'm just a normal girl, you know"

Donna Summer, Musician

"I was introverted, shy. But if you win a lot, you need to be extroverted, or they'll think you're arrogant"

Alberto Tomba, Athlete

"I'm a very modest person"

Drew Brees, Athlete

"Attacks of divine transports are of pride and I accept the part assigned"

Elizabeth Barton, Celebrity

"I am very much aware that if I am getting good press at the moment I could just as easily be getting bad press. I cannot have the good and forget the bad. You have to accept it both ways"

Damon Hill, Athlete

"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

"In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right"

Paul Elmer More, Critic

"I'm a normal person and I don't have superpowers! I do normal things, too"

Larisa Oleynik, Actress

"I don't think I could be terribly demanding even if I wanted to be"

Stephanie Zimbalist, Actress

"We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers, our opinions on everything need to be known"

Penn Jillette, Entertainer

"Be brave if you lose and meek if you win"

Harvey Penick, Athlete

"I'm not a star"

Harvey Korman, Actor

"No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man"

Bernard Barton, Poet

"To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson"

Bruce Catton, Historian

"I was very, very shocked about Cooperstown. I thought my chances were fairly good, but I tried to stay low key about it, not too high and not too low. That was the way I played, too"

Al Kaline, Athlete

"I never took myself too seriously"

Curt Gowdy, Celebrity

"I think it's important to know your limitations too"

Kip Winger, Musician

"I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous"

Noomi Rapace, Actress

"I'm not a politician. I'm not a lawyer. I'm just a country boy"

Max Burns, Politician

"He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face"

Richard Savage, Poet

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

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Actor

"The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award, but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked, and it also honors my students and colleagues"

Robert Hofstadter, Economist

"People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated"

Lucille Clifton, Poet

"I never did anything about my stardom, it never meant anything to me"

Tom Courtenay, Actor

"I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time"

Clark Gable, Actor

"Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress"

Ellen Terry, Actress

"I'm not a competitive person"

Chris Elliott, Comedian

"I wouldn't describe myself as a master of anything"

Toby Young, Journalist

"I just do what I do. It's not something that should be revered as something that's great"

Pharrell Williams, Musician

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