Humbling Quotes
116 quotes by 110 authors
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Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.
— Diane Ackerman
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Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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[I]t is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling - and indeed healthy - to ask why…
— Condoleezza Rice
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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…
— Bobby Jones
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Gardening is a humbling experience.
— Martha Stewart
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It's the most humbling sport ever. It's like a lousy lover. It's like some guy who's never there when you need him. Every once in…
— Dinah Shore
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It's humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
— Isaac Asimov
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It's a humbling experience for me to be in this position.
— LeBron James
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Each of us is accountable to God for our personal holiness. Humbling yourself by letting others into your life and allowing them to help you…
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
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It's humbling to realise that the developmental gulf between a miniscule ant colony and our modern human civilisation is only a tiny fraction of the…
— Michio Kaku
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What libraries give you is all three tenses - the past tense - the present tense in which we live and the future that we…
— Pete Hamill
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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…
— Tom Brady
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It's a humbling thing being humble.
— Maurice Clarett
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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…
— Michael Emerson
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Being asked to serve as UN Women’s Goodwill Ambassador is truly humbling. The chance to make a real difference is not an opportunity that everyone…
— Emma Watson
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It was the hardest year of my life. It was humbling. I was a fish out of water.
— Warren Sapp
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When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience.
— Paul McCartney
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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…
— Angela Davis
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The gentleman does not needlessly and unnecessarily remind an offender of a wrong he may have committed against him. He cannot only forgive, he can…
— Robert E. Lee
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To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is…
— Dale Murphy
Who Wrote These Humbling Quotes
110 authors contributed a total of 116 Humbling Quotes, led by these top contributors: