Values & Character: Humility Quotes

"I've never taken myself too seriously"

Omar Epps, Actor

"I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them"

Howard Barker, Playwright

"I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting"

Eddie Albert, Actor

"I try to stay under the radar"

Jason Patric, Actor

"Even at my peak, I never went too over the top"

Pauly Shore, Comedian

"I'm totally Italian, but I'm not a diva. If you could see the way I'm dressed in daily life, that's not a diva. Appearances are so not important to me"

Patti LuPone, Musician

"I've got my feet firmly on the ground, I can't see life changing too much. I reckon more girls will talk to me at college and more people will look at me, but they know me for who I am"

Gareth Gates, Musician

"It's not important to me to found a school; it's not important to me to have disciples"

John Eaton, Politician

"The honor is overpaid, when he that did the act is commentator"

James Shirley, Dramatist

"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 don't need to be on the number one show. Number 25 is fine"

Ethan Suplee, Actor

"I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best"

Karen McCarthy, Politician

"I'm not driven by money and I'm not driven by career"

Richard O'Brien, Actor

"I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable"

Pat Morita, Actor

"Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright"

Van Wyck Brooks, Critic

"I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people and at home with the desperately poor has been good for me in preparation for my coming to Washington"

James Green Somerville, Writer

"I don't presume to think I'm great at anything"

Robert Kirkman, Writer

"He was a fantastic player, but the thing that impressed me most about Paul was his manner off the pitch. He was always very humble about his achievements and had a lot of time for the paying public and people in general"

Kenny Cunningham, Athlete

"Some kids are always getting into trouble or doing stuff, and I stay away from those types. I know I am no better than anyone else in this world. I'm just an actor, that's nothing special. But I'm not into anything bad. Just blackjack"

Frankie Muniz, Actor

"Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too cool or too uncomfortable to ask for it"

Barry Zito, Athlete

"You are just as capable of making a mistake as anyone else. By insisting too eagerly upon a small right, you may turn it into a wrong against yourself and also against your neighbor"

Lawrence G. Lovasik, Clergyman

"At the conclusion of my argument I received very high compliments from the Chief Justice and later from other of the Judges. What they said I do not care to repeat"

William Henry Moody, Politician

"And I always tried to be not a star. To be someone who people like to talk to"

Kurt Masur, Musician

"Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition"

Riccardo Muti, Celebrity

"People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding"

Van Wyck Brooks, Critic

"Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And what is more, they find it everywhere"

Van Wyck Brooks, Critic

"I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing"

Robert Sheckley, Author

"I don't think I'm egotistical as much as I'm taking responsibility for what I'm putting out there"

Jon Favreau, Actor

"My personality is that I'm a human being like everybody else, just a citizen and a blue collar guy"

Lee Greenwood, Musician

"I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years"

Wallace Shawn, Actor

"I have to stay humble. I'm just a normal human with a job that is televised"

Jai Rodriguez, Actor

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

John Jewel, Clergyman

"Being worshipped is a horrible experience"

John Fahey, Musician

"I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy"

Riccardo Muti, Celebrity

"We put out press releases to tell people what had happened to me and that I had a large weight gain but a lot of people still didn't know. The ones that didn't know were floored. That was a real humbling experience for me"

Lou Gramm, Musician

"I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative"

Chloe Sevigny, Actress

"I know I'm on a small cable reality show. I'm realistic where I stand in the scheme of things"

Jai Rodriguez, Actor

"I hope this doesn't sound pompous, but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done"

Peter Cushing, Actor

"I certainly don't have any airs about myself"

Jamie Farr, Actor

"I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals"

Lord Salisbury, Politician

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