Top 349 Humbling Quotes & Sayings

Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality.

Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.

Golf is a humbling sport.

There is nothing so humbling as being a parent to young children!

It's a humbling experience for me to be in this position.

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

When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience.

I have no power, and that's what's so humbling.

Being branded number one restaurant in the world is actually very humbling.

Learning to live with the given is the great humbling educational process of life.

It's deeply humbling to realize that there is no such thing as a society with a purchase on truth.

A really humbling experience that we've had was touring on Post-Nothing, was having people come up to us and tell that story about Post-Nothing. Especially as the tour went on, people saying, "I listened to your album when it first came out and I listened to it every day for the summer of 2009. That was my album for that summer; that was my album for this time in my life." When somebody tells you that, it's a pretty amazing feeling, and very humbling.

I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.

It's humbling being at home just chilling, watching TV, playing with the kids.

It's really humbling to be acknowledged by such established names like CMT and Billboard.

It's a humbling thing being humble.

I think anytime you get nominated for an award, its a very humbling thing.

I think anytime you get nominated for an award, it's a very humbling thing.

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

Gardening is a humbling experience.

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

It's very humbling to imagine somebody else's really life and their pain ... It's my drug.

The Humbling is not vintage Roth, despite its compelling premise. The bizarre series of episodes -- mostly sexual encounters with women -- which make up this short novel don't play to Roth's strengths. (...) The Humbling disappoints because it avoids these universal implications, and veers off into a baroque world of the unique and fantastic, never quite deigning to make its world concrete or to give its characters the honour of an independent will.

It's humbling to know that you have fans all over America and all over the world and they want you to play on their respective basketball team. It's very humbling that they respect the way I play the game of basketball. I can't discredit that. I can't say I don't enjoy it because you put in a lot of hard work to have fans. And for me to be a role model and for me to have fans all over is great. It's very humbling.

I think boxing is a singular sport, because the stakes are so high and because it just appeals to people's primal instincts. It's a life and death sport, and it's a sport of sacrifice. It's a humbling sport, and people are coming from humbling circumstances. It's always fun to watch a person that's come from nothing to having everything and losing it again.

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

A little humbling never hurt a great advocate.

Writing is so humbling; there's no confidence involved.

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

I feel vulnerable on mountains. It's an uncontrolled, raw environment. It's very - it's truly humbling.

It's always humbling and thrilling to be appreciated.

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

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

It was a sad loss, this illusion of importance, a humbling blow.

The acting world is a humbling experience, I find.

Raising a family is life's greatest joy, but it can also be humbling. You cannot do it alone.

Nature's arena has a way of humbling and energizing us.

Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession.

It's just really humbling to know that your story can help people.

It took a lot of time to find my stride, and it was really humbling.

To have a role written for you by somebody who is a the top of his game is something that is very humbling.

It's humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.

Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever.

I don't think I could have had a better experience than I did with 'Girlfight.' It was a humbling experience to be so well received. And it was equally humbling to be ripped to pieces with 'Aeon Flux.'

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.

We should've been better, more disciplined. We made untimely mistakes defensively, as a group. This is really humbling for us. After winning the Stanley Cup, we got brought back down to earth, hard. Maybe the humbling is good for us in the long run.

Playing for the troops is always an honor and seriously humbling.

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

It is a very humbling honor to be selected as a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame.

It's humbling when people sing back to you!

Isolation, but it's a good vulnerability. Humbling. I actually seek out solitude.

It was the hardest year of my life. It was humbling. I was a fish out of water.

It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.

What a humbling experience, being an NFL quarterback.

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

Humbling was a nice word, Rahel thought. Humbling along without a care in the world

I'll tell you what, this is a humbling sport.

Nothing is more humbling than getting your ass kicked.

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

There's something about dinosaurs that should be very humbling to human beings.