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Quotes About Humility

I don't feel like my life is that of a superstar! Every day I wake up, I take the train, I go to my ballet class. My everyday life is pretty normal.
~ Misty Copeland
A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics.
~ Ron Fournier
My life is a very simple life thank you
~ Tom Clancy
The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians.
~ William Law
Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.
~ William Shatner
He's a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.
~ Yann Martel
One gets on better in life if one is not over modest.
~ Anne Frank
Failure is an integral part of life and that perfection is not of this world.
~ Arianna Huffington
I've striven my whole life for humility, but if I'd ever achieved it, I'd probably be pretty damn proud of that.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I'm not a hero or a superstar. I'm an everyday guy. I feel happy when children approach me. I feel that something good is happening in life when little kids recognise me.
~ Boman Irani
I've only skied a couple of times in my life. Any skier would say I stink.
~ Bridgette Wilson
Even the best Christian that ever lived is not acting on his own steam--he is only nourishing or protecting a life he could never have acquired by his own efforts.
~ C. S. Lewis
It's a dream come true to have someone else portray me. Because I've been living this life for a long time, and I'm over myself.
~ Chelsea Handler
It is a good rule in life to be wary of the company of people who think of themselves in the third person, no matter how well justified they might seem to be in doing so.
~ Clive James
True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
~ Edward Frederick Halifax
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Not worthy, Lord! to gather up the crumbs with trembling hand that from thy table fall, a weary, heavy-laden sinner comes to plead thy promise and obey thy call.
~ EDWARD HENRY BICKERSTETH
The sweetest life is to be ever making sacrifices for Christ; the hardest life a man can lead on earth, the most full of misery, is to be always doing his own will and seeking to please himself.
~ EDWARD HENRY BICKERSTETH
There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.
~ Edward Hopper
I believe there surely is such a thing as truth, but who among us can claim a monopoly on it? There are those who do, and their own words testify to their intolerance.
~ Edward Kennedy
It would also require a conscious effort to look at the world from unfamiliar standpoints and admit that the West has no monopoly on truth or virtue.
~ Edward Luce
The cost of scientific advance is the humbling recognition that reality was not constructed to be easily grasped by the human mind. This is the cardinal tenet of scientific understanding: Our species and its ways of thinking are a product of evolution, not the purpose of evolution.
~ Edward O. Wilson
Earth relates to the Universe as the second segment of the left antenna of an aphid sitting on a flower petal in a garden in Teaneck, New Jersey, for a few hours this afternoon.
~ Edward O. Wilson