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Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing. -- Charley Pride
A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others. -- Robert E. Lee
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions. -- Bodhidharma
Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting. -- Michael Stipe
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? -- LeBron James
Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins. -- Alphonsus Liguori
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 humbling. And athletes constantly need to be humbled. -- Dale Murphy
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. -- LeRoy Neiman
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. -- Queen Elizabeth II
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 and hold you accountable will release the sanctifying, transforming grace of God in your life. -- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Isolation, but it's a good vulnerability. Humbling. I actually seek out solitude. -- Brendan Dooling
Humbling was a nice word, Rahel thought. Humbling along without a care in the world -- Arundhati Roy
CENTER-OF-THE-UNIVERSE, that was me entering the workplace. And I woke up one day soon after that, struggling at the bottom of a vast ocean. But I needed that. Humbling experiences are part of growing - they help shape us and mold our character. Welcome to life. -- Yay Padua-Olmedo
It's a humbling thing being humble. -- Maurice Clarett
We are a vibrant first-world country, but we have a humbling third-world memory. -- Mary McAleese
Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable. -- Diane Ackerman
Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life. -- Mark Zuckerberg
It's a humbling thing, having kids. One of my sons came to rehearsals, and now he says Daddy's job is 'go play loud music.' -- Trent Reznor
Humble yourself"--it is a humbling experience to knock at God's door--you have to knock with the crucified thief. "To him that knocketh, it shall be opened. -- Oswald Chambers
One of the humbling things about having written more than one novel is the sense that every time you begin, that new empty page does not know who you are. -- John Irving
The bravery shown by Azza Suleiman who dared to stand up for another woman who was being beaten, and paid a heavy price in doing so, is both awe-inspiring and humbling. -- Vivienne Westwood
[I]t is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling - and indeed healthy - to ask why you have been given so much. -- Condoleezza Rice
It's great being your own boss, but then, you know, you make your own mistakes, you know, and you own them. You know, so it's empowering, and it's also humbling along the way. -- Ani DiFranco
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. -- Rachael Ray
Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of spirit who might lead a revolution, by humbling the people, and making them incapable of decisive action... -- Aristotle
Injury in general teaches you to appreciate every moment. I've had my share of injuries throughout my career. It's humbling. It gives you perspective. No matter how many times I've been hurt, I've learned from that injury and come back even more humble. -- Troy Polamalu
We put out press releases to tell people what had happened to me and that I had a large weight gain but a lot of people still didn't know. The ones that didn't know were floored. That was a real humbling experience for me. -- Lou Gramm
Being named as a finalist for the USA Basketball National Team is an unbelievable feeling and an opportunity that is truly humbling. It is an honor to be included with such talented players and I look forward to the chance to represent my country this summer. -- James Harden
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
Life experiences can, at times, be quite humbling, but you learn from them. But I like the changes in my life and what kind of person they've made me into. I'm very open, not as judgmental as I was in my twenties, and a lot more compassionate. -- Donna Air
God is more concerned with conforming me to the likeness of His Son than leaving me in my comfort zones. God is more interested in inward qualities than outward circumstances - things like refining my faith, humbling my heart, cleaning up my thought life and strengthening my character. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
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. -- Wendell Berry
It's a joyful, humbling feeling to be in different places around the planet, and people have seen shows that I'm proud of being a part of, that do have things to say about the human condition, the planet, and who we are and where we've come from, that will sustain. -- Scott Bakula
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. -- Si Robertson
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. -- Kunal Nayyar
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. -- Paul Johnson
Math is the beautiful, rich, joyful, playful, surprising, frustrating, humbling and creative art that speaks to something transcendental. It is worthy of much exploration and examination because it is intrinsically beautiful, nothing more to say. Why play the violin? Because it is beautiful! Why engage in math? Because it too is beautiful! -- James Tanton
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 depeately we long for someone's kindness and involvement. It's so humbling. -- Larry Crabb
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'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. -- Sara Blakely
I was the first critic ever to win a Tony - for co-authoring 'Elaine Stritch at Liberty.' Criticism is a life without risk; the critic is risking his opinion, the maker is risking his life. It's a humbling thought but important for the critic to keep it in mind - a thought he can only know if he's made something himself. -- John Lahr
Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God. The important consistency in a saint is not to a principle but to the divine life. It is easier to be an excessive fanatic than it is to be consistently faithful, because God causes an amazing humbling of our religious conceit when we are faithful to Him. -- Oswald Chambers
Gardening is a humbling experience. -- Martha Stewart
I've never directed, but it must be humbling. -- Holly Hunter
The acting world is a humbling experience, I find. -- Sharlto Copley
Nothing is more humbling than getting your ass kicked. -- Mike Tyson
When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience. -- Paul McCartney
Nature's arena has a way of humbling and energizing us. -- Scott Jurek
It's humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked. -- Gillian Flynn
It's a humbling experience for me to be in this position. -- LeBron James
Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession. -- Moss Hart
I'm very modest. I know that baseball is a very humbling game. -- David Wright
It was a sad loss, this illusion of importance, a humbling blow. -- Hugh Howey
Being branded number one restaurant in the world is actually very humbling -- Heston Blumenthal
There's something about dinosaurs that should be very humbling to human beings. -- Colin Trevorrow
Being branded number one restaurant in the world is actually very humbling. -- Heston Blumenthal
It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling. -- Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Through the humbling dispensations of Divine Providence, men are sometimes fitted for his service. -- John Woolman
I think anytime you get nominated for an award, its a very humbling thing. -- David Nail
I think anytime you get nominated for an award, it's a very humbling thing. -- David Nail
It's very humbling to imagine somebody else's really life and their pain ... It's my drug. -- Meryl Streep
As an athlete you have to be coachable. And being coachable is a humbling thing. -- Rashad Evans
In the inconceivably vast and humbling unknown called "everything", is a supreme inter-communication called, spirituality. -- Bryant McGill
Never say "never" about anything, because if you do, life has a way of humbling you. -- Mike Colter
It's humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world. -- Isaac Asimov
BJJ is like trying to solve a puzzle that keeps changing..so magnificent... yet completely humbling. -- Phillipe Nover
I feel vulnerable on mountains. It's an uncontrolled, raw environment. It's very - it's truly humbling. -- Jeremy Jones
Use every opportunity of humbling yourself before your fellow-men as a help to abide humble before God. -- Andrew Murray
It was the hardest year of my life. It was humbling. I was a fish out of water. -- Warren Sapp
I have found the study of organisms to be a truly exciting experience, always interesting and sometimes humbling. -- Edward T. Hall
Even if we cannot endure much labor because we are weak let us be set on humbling ourselves. -- Dorotheus of Gaza
Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever. -- Zadie Smith
It's deeply humbling to realize that there is no such thing as a society with a purchase on truth. -- Andrew Solomon
I've met a lot of really friendly people who are incredibly happy for me, which is really flattering and humbling. -- Allison Tolman
Could someone look at your life or look at my life and name me a Christian? A humbling thought for sure. -- Chris Tomlin
I think the one thing that athletics prepared me for thats been more beneficial than anything has been the humbling times. -- Geoff Stults
It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing. -- Rob Sheffield
The truth is humbling, terrifying, and often exhilarating. It blows the doors off the hinges and fills the world with fresh air. -- Augusten Burroughs
I knew that (job) had to be a humbling role for my dad, but he never allowed it to become humiliating work. -- Jeremy Camp
I have been a fan of Jesse Terry since the first time I heard him. He's a humble - and humbling - talent. -- Tony Arata
I was very excited to meet Amanda Seyfried. She is one of the most humbling human beings you will ever meet. She deserves success. -- Cory Hardrict
Mitchell claimed that her materialist view leads to "humbleness." But it is not humbling; it is dehumanizing. It essentially reduces humans to robots. -- Nancy Pearcey
I've said all along it's a humbling experience being at UCLA. Extremely proud, extremely blessed to be at an institution with all this tradition. -- Steve Alford
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I love surfing, rock climbing, cycling - all that stuff. But it's just amazing that I can inspire people with my running. It's humbling, really. -- Dean Karnazes
Any time you have someone come up and say they love what you do and they get great joy from it is a very humbling experience. -- Chris Hemsworth
Being able to meet fans who look up to me and letting me know they have been inspired by me in some way is so humbling. -- Erin Willett
Motherhood is the most dangerous and awesome relationship possible. ... The parent/child blood relationship is one-sided and irrevocable and enduring. And it is all rather humbling. -- Glenda Jackson
Photography is humbling, it really is, and it really allows for me to atone for some of the missteps I've made throughout the course of my life. -- Jamel Shabazz
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 of consequences. -- Bobby Jones
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 as a hairdo. -- Angela Davis
There's nothing more humbling than seeing your best quotes in a list, and thinking they could have been written by a coma patient with a keyboard and spasms. -- Scott Adams
And it's a little - very humbling to think that running for president of the United States is - for a kid from Brooklyn, it's quite a step. -- Rudy Giuliani
Like life, golf can be humbling. However, little good comes from brooding about mistakes we've made. The next shot, in golf or in life, is the big one. -- Grantland Rice
Making movies is really hard, and it can be humbling. And once you put them out into the world, you can't control how people will respond to it. -- James Ponsoldt
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. -- Timothy Keller
I think I'm a pretty clichÃ© actor in that I hate watching myself on film. I don't know why it should be humbling to see yourself on film. -- Hamish Linklater
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. -- Meghan Daum
The blank space can be humbling. But I've faced it my whole professional life. It's my job. It's also my calling. Bottom line: Filling this empty space constitutes my identity. -- Twyla Tharp
It's humbling to start fresh. It takes a lot of courage. But it can be reinvigorating. You just have to put your ego on a shelf & tell it to be quiet. -- Jennifer Ritchie Payette
It is very humbling to see my own character defects in someone who annoys me. At the end of the day, I realize they have actually prompted positive change in me. -- Auliq Ice
The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of the self breeds pride and arrogance. -- Eric Hoffer
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 out there, which is kind of humbling. -- Tom Brady
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. -- Philip Gulley
...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. -- Dar Williams
Again and again, I've undergone the humbling experience of first lamenting how badly something sucks, then only much later having the crucial insight that its not sucking wouldn't have been a Nash equilibrium. -- Scott Aaronson
If God speaks to us about himself and his own glorious greatness, we respond by humbling ourselves before him in worship... If He speaks to us about His commandments, we determine to obey them. -- John Stott
While marriage is many things, it is anything but sentimental. Marriage is glorious but hard. It's a burning joy and strength, and yet it is also blood, sweat, and tears; humbling defeats and exhausting victories. -- Timothy Keller

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