Values & Character: Humility Quotes

"As far as big egos, there are definitely guys out there that just think God only knows what about themselves"

Ethan Suplee, Actor

"I wouldn't even mention myself in the same breath as someone like Big Paul"

Kenny Cunningham, Athlete

"If we learn not humility, we learn nothing"

John Jewel, Clergyman

"Yet none use their words more recklessly than the strong, who have not been sobered by the rebuffs and uncertainties of life"

George A. Smith, Clergyman

"I think it's important that the rest of the world know that we're not all the same and that we don't all have the sort of arrogance it feels like they're perceiving from our leaders"

James Denton, Actor

"That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it"

Clyde Tombaugh, Scientist

"Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn"

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Writer

"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

"I have never wanted to be famous, as such - fame is a by-product"

Steve Coogan, Comedian

"Frankly, I've never really subscribed to these adjectives tagging me as an 'icon', 'superstar', etc. I've always thought of myself as an actor doing his job to the best of his ability"

Amitabh Bachchan, Actor

"I don't consider myself a celebrity, and I don't consider myself a star"

Laura Linney, Actress

"It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person, it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work"

Gyorgy Legeti, Writer

"To set the cause above renown"

Henry Newbolt, Author

"I am not the flag: Not at all. I am but its shadow"

Franklin Knight Lane, Politician

"Nominations come and go. It is not going to happen to you every year, and I am very well aware of that"

Lee Ann Womack, Musician

"I wasn't very funny or flashy, I was kind of boring"

Katie Holmes, Actress

"I think people believe that I give ant aura of someone who has both feet on the ground"

Joe Morton, Actor

"I'm not a pretty boy who came to town and burst out of the gate, which is a good thing, because if I was, I probably wouldn't have been good enough then. I probably wouldn't have lasted. So I was very lucky not to be pretty"

Jeremy Piven, Actor

"I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be"

John Betjeman, Poet

"When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe. And I think that's a really dangerous, limiting mindset"

Ed Helms, Comedian

"Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?"

Henry Harland, Novelist

"I've gone through guys who want to lay on their backs and play like they're full of themselves. You know, I don't care about posing. I mean, look at me, do I care about posing?"

Bill Kreutzmann, Musician

"I don't like to think about being an influence. It's embarrassing"

Bruce Nauman, Sculptor

"Good looks only take you so far"

Angie Everhart, Model

"But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored!"

Isabella Rossellini, Actress

"But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything"

Ian Hamilton Finlay, Poet

"So the point is, I don't have a right to tell anybody what's right or wrong about their lives. Who am I to tell you at any given moment of the day what would be right for you?"

Robin Quivers, Celebrity

"A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly"

Mary Wortley, Royalty

"I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation"

Bill Wyman, Musician

"At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further reflection led me to doubt whether so insignificant an individual would be noticed without some special introduction"

William Banting, Celebrity

"He who knows how to be poor knows everything"

Jules Michelet, Historian

"This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments"

Johann Arndt, Theologian

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