Top 100 Humbling Quotes

It’s always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it’s humbling.

The truth is, there are so many terrific places in New York because it’s the greatest city in the world, and there are so many fascinating places to see that, frankly, it’s humbling.

Being taken down a few pegs is humbling. Knowing that life is not easy or fair is humbling. Receiving a great honor – well, that would be called an honor.

Every day somebody comes up to me and says, ‘That song really helped me through a difficult time,’ or ‘That’s me and my wife’s song’ or ‘This song means something to me because of… ‘ It’s humbling to hear that. You’re something special in someone’s life, even if it is for three minutes.

It is a humbling experience when you travel around and you meet people all over the world and I take all that into consideration when I am writing songs at home.

It is very humbling to receive the Fields Medal. The words of a Fields Medallist carry a lot of weight within mathematics – for instance, in framing future directions of research – which means that I have to watch what I say more carefully now!

That’s the beauty of filmmaking: it’s extremely humbling because you do it all over again all the time.

It’s humbling when people sing back to you!

It’s a humbling and amazing journey when you write a song in your bedroom, and you’ve got no money, and you’re trying to write a song based on where you’re at right at this moment.

It’s humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you’re alive.

I really had to come to the conclusion, the sort of humbling conclusion that, guess what, I’m no different than anybody else: I’ve got to sort of ask for help – not something I ever did, ever. And then part two of that is, like, accept it when it comes, and, you know, believe what people tell me.

It is a humbling experience to work with Duttsaab and Amitji, who was my dad’s costar in so many films.

Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.

If you get a chance to coach against one of your mentors, and a guy that taught you almost kind of the foundation of what you know about this game, I think it would be a fun, humbling opportunity.

Walking down the street, it’s a humbling feeling. Everyone stopping you for photos and autographs, it’s real humbling.

CrossFit is a very humbling sport and you can be really good at something and look like an idiot doing another movement. It’s a nasty thing, but it makes it a little more fun.

I’m so thrilled to have won the RITA. The award is particularly special because it is given by other romance authors. It’s deeply rewarding and not a little humbling to be honored by such a talented tribe of writers.

Being the mayor of the third largest city in the country, that’s humbling, but it also gives me incredible hope.

Realizing the responsibility I’ve been entrusted with… it’s humbling. Very humbling.

Whatever needed to be done, I need to know how to do it just as well as my wife. You know, for us to be able to really balance the parenting. It was very humbling, and it was also, um – terrifying. Because, you know, giving a baby a bath for the first time is one of the scariest things you can do on this whole earth.

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 really humbling and gratifying to see that people are finally realizing that we are talented and we have things to say and that our stories are just like your stories. There’s no reason that anybody from Wisconsin or Turkey can’t relate to ‘Atlanta.’

We live in a bubble sometimes, and you can get out of touch with your fans. You go to the studio, you come home. But coming to Comic-Con is a real opportunity to connect with the people that made your show happen and are responsible for its continued success. It’s really humbling.

It’s exciting to know that you are loved so much. It is humbling.

With the BBC Sound list, it’s just humbling even being put aside those other musicians – people like Alicia Kava, who I am a huge fan of.

Words fail to express how surreal and humbling it feels to be invited into the ‘Star Wars’ universe.

I’d get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It’s a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.

It’s humbling how my peers view me as not only one of the best Olympic power and weightlifters, but as an athlete.

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

I’ve been chubby, I’ve been skinny, I’ve been considered ugly, I’ve been considered cute… It runs the gamut and all of those things are very humbling.

I don’t feel like there has ever really been anyone like me, and I’m starting to realize that. Not in a cocky way, but in a very humbling way.

When I was in prison, a lot of my friends blew me away. But Stephen Fry wrote to me. It was very humbling.

I remember ‘vulnerability’ being an unattractive word for most of my life, and I resented it as a direction coming from a director just because it implied weakness so I get the job. But it is that humbling place that creates compassion.

In short, chronological connectivity puts us in touch with the holy. It is at once humbling and exhilarating. I say this as someone who has never followed any formal religious practice. Connection with the past and the future is a pathway that charms us in the direction of sanity and grace.

If a kid’s trying to be the next Danny Green, that’s weird for me. That’s surreal, humbling and hard to put in a thought process.

When I think that I’m the only actor from South Korea to have worked with John Woo, it’s really humbling.

Sometimes you need a humbling experience to think about a few things.

Yes, there was a sort of underground cult following, which came from nowhere, and grew, and grew. It was quite surprising to us all, because all of us had spent probably the previous five to ten years without it. So it was quite overwhelming. Overwhelming and humbling.

One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you’re not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.

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.

On behalf of the entire Lionsgate team, it is a tremendous honor and deeply humbling to join the elite group of recipients previously honored with the Milestone Award.

It is humbling to be a part of ‘Our Loved Boy.’

Performing in India is very close to my heart, and it is very humbling to see that so many people have so much love to offer me.

There’s a lot of kids who look up to me, and that’s humbling. Because being human, I don’t want to fail them. But being human, I will. That’s why it’s so important to have your faith put in something that won’t fail you. And that means the Son of God’s kingdom.

A journey through the Mediterranean is not only inspiring and stimulating, it is also humbling. The men and women who created antique treasures for us to marvel at had to deal with plague, genocide, a world without writing, iron tools, or penicillin – and yet they made something extraordinary of their life and times.

The thing about Jiu Jitsu is it is also not for everybody. It can be very humiliating and humbling. If you have a hard time dealing with the fact that someone smaller than you may be able to tap you out, it is going to be difficult.

I really wanted to make ‘Everest’ visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It’s humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.

It was humbling to see how many fans there are of ‘Serenity.’ It’s like an underground fan base.

Of course ‘Horizon’ had made an impact on me from a young age, but it was also humbling to meet and interview eminent scientists, and hear their high opinion of the series and of the science presented on the BBC more generally.

For me, personally, it has been humbling since I became First Minister to speak to women and girls and have them tell me how much it means to them to have a woman in the top job in politics in Scotland.

There are so many guys that they are talking about that may be the ‘next one’ or may be the next Bolt. That whole conversation is exciting to me and really humbling.

Out of so many international stars from U.S., France, Russia and Italy, I was the one who bagged the first Frownie Award. It is a humbling feeling.

Eric Schmidt from Google is one of my favorite mentors. And Eric would always say this very humbling thing that’s really true, which is, he would say, ‘Good executives confuse themselves when they convince themselves that they actually do things.’