It’s wonderful to be back. Back among the mountains that remind us of our vulnerability, our ultimate lack of control over the world we live in. Mountains that demand humility, and yield so much peace in return. – Alex Lowe
This is the deal: we are happy to single out people as superior just as long as they don’t accept the description themselves. We want heroes and idols, but we also want egalitarianism, and that requires proclamations of humility from our gods. – Julian Baggini
Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That’s not to say humble people don’t exist there, but ambition seems really important. – Anna Kendrick
Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health. – Joseph B. Wirthlin
If every moment is sacred, and If you are amazed and in awe most of the time when you find yourself breathing and not crazy, then you are in a state of constant thankfulness, worship and humility. – Bernice Johnson Reagon
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. – C. S. Lewis
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance. – Arthur Helps
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
Humility is the armour that you clothe yourself with throughout your life. We demean each other rather than lift up ourselves. – Anthony Carmona
There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. – Alfred Austin
There is one common thing in superstars – enthusiasm and humility towards their work. Off sets, they are big stars for others, and they carry themselves the way they want to. When they are working, they are not stars. – Abhishek Bachchan
Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible. – Charles Spurgeon
Your emotions are exposed when you play golf: humility, pride, anger, it all comes out with each swing. You lay it all on the line. – Bryant Gumbel
Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man. – Bryant H. McGill
Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy. – Amanda Seyfried
The word majesty was now dropped; but, with the deepest respect and humility, I was addressed as the count. What could I do? I accepted the title, and from that moment I was known as Count Peter. – Adelbert von Chamisso
But I still feel like a normal person… I’ve walked the streets and I know what it feels like. I speak with humility, and apparently those songs connect with people. – CeeLo Green
Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn. – Charlie Sheen
If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business. – Anthony Bourdain
Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought. – Charles Spurgeon
We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori. – Carl Friedrich Gauss
When you’re a politician, someone always wants something from you, so they’re constantly telling you how smart or great you are, and that can warp people! Exercising humility is important to me. My friends back home treat me like the same person I was when I was waiting tables. – Aaron Schock
Humility is of central importance; I think it’s an underappreciated virtue in the contemporary discussion of law and politics. – Cass Sunstein
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions. – Bodhidharma