Humility Quotes About Character & Perspective – Page 3 | GloryQuotes

You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.

Talib Kweli

When you are as great as I am it is hard to be humble.

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

Steven Tyler

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

Max Beerbohm

At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

Joan Baez

Barack Obama says that we need to be humble toward terrorism. Yet he is the one we have been waiting for. That is humble?

Evan Sayet

It's all about humanity, humility, and integrity.

Debra Wilson

You have to be humble when you're dealing with God.

Jill Scott

Jesse McCartney is one of the nicest people around. I hate when I hear bad things about him, because anyone who knows him would agree that he's a good guy and really humble.

Zac Efron

One thing that golf teaches you is humility.

Robert Wagner

Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.

Larry Hagman

I just want to be humble at all times.

It ain't the heat, it's the humility.

Yogi Berra

When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.

Pat Summerall

I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.

Mira Sorvino

Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.

Jack Lemmon

Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty.

Margaret Smith

I think we were always humble.

Steve Brown

Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain.

Joe Davis

The marathon can humble you.

Bill Rodgers

You have to demand things and believe you're worth more. And once you do demand them, you're usually going to get them. The players who first came in were very humble because we came from obscurity. Today's players, on the other hand, have a sense of entitlement.

Sue Wicks

But I don't really care for directors flaring up and trying to humble some actor, which they would do to try and make an example out of them so everybody else would stay on the ball - and David wasn't anything like that.

Richard Farnsworth

If we remain humble and hungry, we can win.

Dave Allison

Too many people in government seem to think they are above regular folks, and I said I would expect humility in the way each member of my team served- that they would recognize that the taxpayer is boss.

Mark Sanford

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

George Santayana

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Thomas Kempis

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

Margaret Mead

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.

Titus Livius

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.

Augustus Hare

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

Henry David Thoreau

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Galileo Galilei

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

Langston Hughes

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

Arthur Miller

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Albert Einstein

My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.

William Tecumseh Sherman

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

James M. Barrie

Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Henry Ward Beecher

I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing.

Gordon Getty

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

W. Somerset Maugham

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Jack Kemp