Humbling Quotes

Humbling Quote of the day

It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.

It's a humbling thing being humble.

It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject.

Like life, golf can be humbling. However, little good comes from brooding about mistakes we've made. The next shot, in golf or in life, is the big one.

It is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling - and indeed healthy - to ask why you have been given so much.

Could someone look at your life or look at my life and name me a Christian? A humbling thought for sure.

I feel vulnerable on mountains. It's an uncontrolled, raw environment. It's very - it's truly humbling.

Never say "never" about anything, because if you do, life has a way of humbling you.

Any time you have someone come up and say they love what you do and they get great joy from it is a very humbling experience.

I fell so many times and got back up. I been through the toughest times with my family, but I’m still standing.

Through the humbling dispensations of Divine Providence, men are sometimes fitted for his service.

A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

Nature's arena has a way of humbling and energizing us.

Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.

Golf is said to be an humbling game, but it is surprising how many people are either not aware of their weaknesses of else reckless of consequences.

I think baseball has such a way of humbling you. You can go 20-for-20, and before you know it, you're going to go through an 0-for-30. It has that way of knocking you back down to earth.

Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life.

Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession.

Grace is humbling and restorative. It pulls you down because Christ had to die for you, but also lifts you up because he wanted to die for you.

Photography is humbling, it really is, and it really allows for me to atone for some of the missteps I've made throughout the course of my life.

It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.

Being branded number one restaurant in the world is actually very humbling.

It's great being your own boss, but then, you know, you make your own mistakes, you know, and you own them. You know, so it's empowering, and it's also humbling along the way.

Gardening is a humbling experience.

Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?

Humble yourself"--it is a humbling experience to knock at God's door--you have to knock with the crucified thief. "To him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

As an athlete you have to be coachable. And being coachable is a humbling thing.

It's deeply humbling to realize that there is no such thing as a society with a purchase on truth.

It's very humbling to imagine somebody else's really life and their pain ... It's my drug.

The acting world is a humbling experience, I find.

Mitchell claimed that her materialist view leads to “humbleness.” But it is not humbling; it is dehumanizing. It essentially reduces humans to robots.

I loved acting when I was doing it, but getting the jobs I didn't understand because I'd never had to do it. That was a difficult lesson for me. It was very humbling and very bizarre.

Sometimes you give birth to something or you're part of a team that gives birth to an idea, and it grows and has a whole life of its own, and you feel grateful. It's just so humbling.

I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.

You know you're getting older when they're making TV shows, sequels or plays for things that you did. It's very flattering and very humbling, indeed.

BJJ is like trying to solve a puzzle that keeps changing..so magnificent... yet completely humbling.

It was the hardest year of my life. It was humbling. I was a fish out of water.

The blank space can be humbling. But I've faced it my whole professional life. It's my job. It's also my calling. Bottom line: Filling this empty space constitutes my identity.

I have been a fan of Jesse Terry since the first time I heard him. He's a humble - and humbling - talent.

You don't like to see your guys take the field without you because it makes you feel like, man, maybe they really don't need me out there, which is kind of humbling.

But why, she thought wryly, did a man seem more attractive as he became less available? How humbling to think one had so much in common with a cow stretching its neck through a gate for better grass.

We allow the sonic qualities themselves to develop their own momentum. It's a kind of humbling experience to put the sound first instead of the statement.

I have no power, and that's what's so humbling.

There’s nothing more humbling than seeing your best quotes in a list, and thinking they could have been written by a coma patient with a keyboard and spasms.

It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in The Practice than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both.

And it's a little - very humbling to think that running for president of the United States is - for a kid from Brooklyn, it's quite a step.

I've never directed, but it must be humbling.

The trauma of the whole thing has been humbling, and for the first time, I'm a little bit wobbly.

We just never know. We think we do. We think we have life figured out, and in our arrogance we become hard. But life has a way of humbling us, of softening us.