Humbling Quotes

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And it blew my mind when I started to get wind of the fact that they actually liked me being around. That was humbling, because Kentucky basketball is a big deal, and I am not the biggest fan - I am just the most notorious one.

- Ashley Judd

Motherhood has completely changed me. It`s just about like the most completely humbling experience that I`ve ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can`t stand up to those principles when you`re raising a child, forget it.

- Diane Keaton

I`ve never directed, but it must be humbling.

- Holly Hunter

Partying and having all of those pictures taken distracts from the work that I do. It`s not why I started acting. I didn`t get into acting to be written about. It kind of just happened - so I accept that it`s my life. But there are some things that I can do to make changes and grow up. I want to act like a woman rather than a teenager. I am doing the best I can. It was hard surrendering and having people tell me what to do. It was really humbling for me, but I liked how I was treated as a normal person. I kept the common areas clean. I liked making coffee for the gym the best. I`m planning a trip to Africa during the second week in December. I`m working with the American Red Cross, but it is not finalized yet. I just want to apologize to any of my fans that look up to me, especially my younger fans, for setting the examples that I didn`t mean to set. That is one of the reasons that I want to change things. I don`t want to be known as that person. I have a younger sister and she looks up to me, too. All the negative stuff that gets said hurts my feelings, it hurts my sister, Ali, and my family.

- Lindsay Lohan

Any time you get named in a list like that, it`s very humbling. You see the careers those guys have had, and the career Pujols is going to have, it`s nice to be a part of that group.

- Mark Teixeira

Any time you get named in a list like that, it`s very humbling, ... To see the careers those guys have had and the career that Pujols is going to have ... it`s nice to be part of that group.

- Mark Teixeira

Hopefully it`s humbling for us. If Ohio State can beat us, we should know that whoever we play in the second round of the NCAA tournament can beat us.

- Nick Smith

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.

- Mariel Hemingway

It was like slow motion. I reached and it was by me. This can be a very humbling game.

- Mark Loretta

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

- Michael Stipe

It`s a very humbling experience. I`m just so thankful to be a part of three division championships in this franchise`s history.

- Derrick Brooks

I was flabbergasted. Everybody knows when you`ve got a role in a Spike Lee movie, you`re gonna blow up. But I happen to be the only person who`s had the lead in the two Spike Lee movies nobody saw. It was a humbling experience, but Spike taught me more about how to fall on my face in this business than anybody else. (on the attention he didn`t garner after being in Sucker Free City and She Hate Me)

- Anthony Mackie

It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in "The Practice" (1997) than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both.

- Michael Emerson

I was absolutely flattered, ... It was a very humbling experience. I do a lot of stuff and never think about awards. But a lot of other people do a lot of stuff too, so I guess somebody thought I was doing good things.

- John Hamilton

I`m a crier anyway, but it`s just humbling to know that God has blessed him with such a talent, and paved the way for him to be where he`s at. Sitting and watching him play, I know that`s where it comes from.

- Denise Miller

We`re so excited and want to thank everyone who voted for us. It`s a humbling experience.

- Mike Thomas

There`s nothing more humbling than coming out of a gig hot and sweaty having done an hour-long show and seeing `you`re shit` over your own face.

- Noel Fielding

It was humbling. As a child growing up hustling, I never dreamed of it, then,

- Mike Massey

Every individual face, a grandmother or grandchild or parents and their two kids, they`re all there waving at you and they`ve all come to see you, it`s as simple as that. They`re not there simply by chance and that`s very, very humbling.

- Ellen MacArthur

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

- Alaida Lares

But it`s been a great, humbling - and I`ve been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and to be the representative of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are in Washington. And it`s been the greatest honor of my life.

- Alexei Ponikarovsky

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

- Allan Keller

that awareness in the multiplicity of life is inspiring and humbling.

- Anita Steeves

This is a humbling game, ... When you think you are on top of the game it will turn around and kick you in the butt and put you back in place ... Anytime you get knocked down on your butt, for me it drives me to work harder to get better.

- Anka Jacobs

It`s very humbling to start with to be recognized by a school you graduated from. It`s nothing I set out to do. I still haven`t figured it out (why he was recognized.) I just tried to live my life to have fun, be good to people and raise a good family.

- Ann Helberg