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Quotes About Humility

What I bring to the stage is humility.
~ Chubby Checker
I don't have the ability to be a diva. I can't flaunt. I don't have that kind of stage presence. I think of myself as just a band member.
~ Christine McVie
I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.
~ Nelson Mandela
We stand on the shoulders of giants - and that's something we can never forget.
~ Jaime Harrison
My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.
~ Janine Turner
Most of the time it's the parents who recognise me. They try to tell their kids, 'Look, it's Giselle,' and I say, 'No, no, no, don't ruin this for them,' because I'm usually standing there with my hair sideways and no make-up on. And the kid is saying, 'That is not Giselle. No way. That is some worn-out girl who really needs a bath.'
~ Amy Adams
Sam Bradford was one of the most humble and grounded players I've ever been around; he got it. But I even told him, what makes you think those fans in the stands are wearing No.14 for you? Who says it's not an old Josh Heupel jersey?
~ Bob Stoops
He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
~ Douglas Horton
When you take away all the people whose shoulders a CEO stands on, the CEO is just a person.
~ Howard Lutnick
The more I see of the country, the less I feel I know about it. There is a saying that after five years in the north every man is an expert; after ten years, a novice.
~ Pierre Berton
Humility makes our lives acceptable to God, meekness makes us acceptable to men.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
Pride divides the men, humility joins them.
~ Socrates
Better is the man of humble standing that works for himself than one who plays the great man but lacks bread.
~ Solomon
Great women and men are always more anxious to serve than to have dominion.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
They taught me that no man could be their leader except he ate the ranks' food, wore their clothes, lived level with them, and yet appeared better in himself.
~ T. E. Lawrence
No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.
~ Thomas Merton
I want every young man who sees me to know that I'm not that different from them. I wasn't born into wealth. I wasn't born into fame. I made a lot of mistakes - but I kept at it.
~ Barack Obama
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
~ Ben Jonson
God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.
~ C. S. Lewis
If I'm wrong, I'm man enough to say I'm wrong.
~ Stephen A. Smith
I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.
~ Will Rogers
The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.
~ Jerome Lawrence
The superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking for lucky occurrences.
~ Confucius
A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.
~ Confucius