Best Humbling Quotes

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

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.

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?

It’s humbling to know that you have fans all over America and all over the world and they want you to play on their respective basketball team. It’s very humbling that they respect the way I play the game of basketball. I can’t discredit that. I can’t say I don’t enjoy it because you put in a lot of hard work to have fans. And for me to be a role model and for me to have fans all over is great. It’s very humbling.

It’s a humbling experience for me to be in this position.

It’s been very humbling and very cool to see [that at] each show I tend to see more and more kids lock onto the new lyrics and every night they start to sing louder and louder and it’s just been very exciting.

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

When I go home, the first thing I do is wash the dishes. It feels real and it feels like home and it’s humbling, it’s something you don’t do when you’re living in a hotel, everyone cleaning up after you.

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

It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing.

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

It’s continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you’ve got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don’t think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances.

The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.

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.

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

If we judge our lives by what we know or by what we say, we can easily deceive ourselves into thinking that we are something we are not; it is wiser to evaluate ourselves by the amount of truth we actually live. This is very humbling.

It dawned on me at some point that our music makes certain people happy – I never thought we’d have that effect and it’s really gratifying and humbling. My least favorite is the exhaustion that comes with traveling a lot, the touring related exhaustion. And the crazy thing is that we’ve all been doing this for years and your body never gets used to it – you always feel messed up. But it’s a good problem to have.

It’s a humbling thing being humble.

I think anytime you get nominated for an award, its a very humbling thing.

Gardening is a humbling experience.

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It’s equally humbling and uplifting.

It seems that there’s a constant humbling – I don’t know if that’s the right word – because things are disproved all the time with new discoveries, at least that’s the way it feels sometimes in the layman’s world. Like, people will make proclamations of something to be true, and then 50 years later that’s proven wrong because there’s something else.

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.

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

…we’re all in a soup of trying to live by words, and trying to live by poetry. It’s both humbling, and really flattering to know that my words are part of all that.

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.

I find it much easier to counsel than to be counseled, to reach out to a friend in my small group who is feeling insercure than to reveal my own inseurity. The truth is we don’t much like being dependent. We don’t enjoy admitting how desperately we long for someone’s kindness and involvement. It’s so humbling.

The most rewarding possible thing that a songwriter or an artist of any kind can experience is to hear firsthand from the mouth of somebody else that they don’t know the weight or gravity or intensity that something they’ve made has brought out in somebody else’s life. It’s simultaneously flattering and humbling. It makes me so thankful that I’ve been so lucky to be able to do this work.

And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.

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.

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.

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

I had no idea how much music and singing really means to people, and in my own tiny way to be a part of that is very humbling and very sweet, and and I feel very honored. … I have a great appreciation for this, in every ways and a new understanding, and I’m just as amazed as anyone else.

The real work of planet-saving will be small, humble, and humbling, and (insofar as it involves love) pleasing and rewarding. Its jobs will be too many to count, too many to report, too many to be publicly noticed or rewarded, too small to make anyone rich or famous.

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