The Humbling Quotes

Beauty is the only human aspect which cannot be captured on any canvas howsoever hard an artist tries. At the most, the undaunted artist can replicate the beauty on paper but what is a replica in comparison to the original! The humbling resemblance can only be respected, not truly adored.
Beauty cannot be imprisoned in the lens of a camera. The images of beauty are a moment of its essence. Beauty cannot be displayed to evoke pleasure for all on a cinema screen. Those are just its imprints, mere illusions of its existence. Beauty cannot be described by words; it cannot be written or read about. There are no suitable words in all the languages of the world, ancient or modern to hold it between a paper and a pen or a script and an eye. Beauty can only be experienced from far, its delightful aroma can only be tasted through one's eyes and its pleasurable sight can only be felt from the soul.
Beauty can only be best described at its origin through a befuddling silence, the kind that leaves one almost on the verge of a pleasurable death, just because one chooses beauty over life. There is nothing in this world to hold something so pure, so divine except a loving heart. And it is the only manner through which love recognises love; the language of love has no alphabet, no words. ~ Faraaz Kazi

The cost of scientific advance is the humbling recognition that reality was not constructed to be easily grasped by the human mind. This is the cardinal tenet of scientific understanding. Our species and its ways of thinking are a product of evolution, not the purpose of evolution. ~ E. O. Wilson

Play the moment, play whatever plays for you in that moment, and then go to the next moment. It doesn't matter where you're going. Don't worry about that. Just take it moment, moment, moment, moment. ~ Philip Roth

Submission is not in the bowing of heads or knees but in the humbling of your whole being (spirit, soul and body) ~ Ikechukwu Izuakor

This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves. So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you'll experience blessing now). ~ Timothy Keller

The only time I ever believed that I knew all there was to know about beekeeping was the first year I was keeping them. Every year since I've known less and less and have accepted the humbling truth that bees know more about making honey than I do. ~ Sue Hubbell

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. ~ Steve Yzerman

Jules was frozen with incredulity. In truth, he could not speak. He was touched by the display of honor in two country squires, and by the humbling - in truth hilarious - definitive evidence that some things were beyond his control. And life knew what was best for him better than he did, and had brought it to him, not with graceful precision, but with magnificent, ridiculous poetry. ~ Julie Anne Long

I think the one thing that athletics prepared me for that's been more beneficial than anything has been the humbling times. ~ Geoff Stults

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

There's something profoundly intense and intoxicating about friendship found en route. It's the bond that arises from being thrust into uncomfortable circumstances, and the vulnerability of trusting others to navigate those situations. It's the exhilaration of meeting someone when we are our most alive selves, breathing new air, high on life-altering moments. It's the discovery of the commonality of the world's people and the attendant rejection of prejudices. It's the humbling experience of being suspicious of a stranger who then extends a great kindness. It's the astonishment of learning from those we set out to teach. It's the intimacy of sharing small spaces, the recognition of a kindred spirit across the globe.
It's the travel relationship, and it can only call itself family. ~ Lavinia Spalding

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

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. ~ Philip Hensher

What is Strange and disconcerting about Jesus is the fact that he rarely makes demands. The style of teaching he engages in is not rote on memorization or indoctrination but Socratic, propositional and inductive. The listener is invited to explore and come to a conclusion. It is the desire of Christ for his audience to reach a conclusion and not be told what to think.
Stories, sayings, reversals, parables and other forms of teaching used by Jesus are not good teaching tools for people who seek simplistic answers. Jesus teaches but requires more of a listener. We are invited to join the journey, wrestle with our assumptions, confront our spiritual bigotry and struggle with the humbling mystery and profound profundity of God.
This is HARD faith, especially for the modern reader. We want the speaker to tell us what to think. We want our stories tidy, without complication, and we do not want questions designed to coerce us beyond easy answers. This is the LIFE and MINISTRY of Jesus. He was a walking mobile university, a theological gadfly, a spiritual teacher and Savior who cannot be contained by tradition, conformity or assimilation. Jesus is loose in the world quietly upending all assumptions, ideas and concepts we hold true. ~ Otis Moss II

Everything is so vast. It's humbling to remember just how small we really are. ~ T.J. Klune

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

When a young reader tells you that they'd never finished a book outside of school until they read yours, or that they really needed to hear something that one of your characters says or thinks ... that's just rewarding and humbling. ~ Sara Zarr

Living with real children can be humbling. ~ Adele Faber

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

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

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

Self-reflection is a humbling process. It's essential to find out why you think, say, and do certain things... then better yourself. ~ Sonya Teclai

[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 was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing. ~ Rob Sheffield

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

As for me, I've chosen to follow a simple course: Come clean. And wherever possible, live your life in a way that won't leave you tempted to lie. Failing that, I'd rather be disliked for who I truly am than loved for who I am not. So, I tell my story. I write it down. I even publish it. Sometimes this is a humbling experience. Sometimes it's embarrassing. But I haul around no terrible secrets. ~ Joyce Maynard

Sometimes you give birth to something or you're part of a team that gives birth to an idea, and it grows and has a whole life of its own, and you feel grateful. It's just so humbling. ~ Glen Hansard

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

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

Placed in some situation that seems unchangeable and undeniably negative, we can turn it into a learning experience, a humbling experience, a chance to provide comfort to others. ~ Ryan Holiday

Capitalism offers nothing but frustrations and rebuffs to those who wish - because of claimed superiority of intelligence, birth, credentials, or ideals - to get without giving, to take without risking, to profit without sacrifice, to be exalted without humbling themselves to understand others and meet their needs. ~ George Gilder

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

Dignity is treasure one should never lose. When humbling yourself, Don't bow down to any man. For he is no greator than you ~ Sonny Cele

There is nothing to hide anymore. When love looks at you, when it truly pins you down and stares into your soul, it renders you defenseless. And in that moment, in that state of humbling nakedness, it makes you completely invincible. ~ Leylah Attar

In my own book-signings, I find humility. It's always humbling when people go out of their way to come visit with me and by some of my books. ~ Nicholas Trandahl

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

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

I'm very modest. I know that baseball is a very humbling game. ~ David Wright

Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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's a humbling experience for me to be in this position. ~ LeBron James

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

That first phrase-please bless me, Father, for I have sinned-was so humbling and so total, Matt always felt a kind of absolution as soon as he said it ~ Patricia McCormick

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

As an athlete you have to be coachable. And being coachable is a humbling thing. ~ Rashad Evans

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.' ~ Marissa Mayer

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting. ~ Michael Stipe

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

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

Never say "never" about anything, because if you do, life has a way of humbling you. ~ Mike Colter

I think it's helped me evolve all around, as an artist and as a person. I think we need something, need something to believe in. We need something that makes us pay attention to these humbling experiences. ~ Ryan Montgomery

I knew that (job) had to be a humbling role for my dad, but he never allowed it to become humiliating work. ~ Jeremy Camp

We are a vibrant first-world country, but we have a humbling third-world memory. ~ Mary McAleese

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

Trying to lead worship without electrical power can be a humbling experience. Trying to lead without spiritual power is far more serious. But normally not as obvious. ~ Bob Kauflin

She considered herself fortunate to count enough in his eyes for him to derive pleasure from offending her, as believers give thanks to God for humbling them. But, ~ Pauline Reage

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

We must humble ourselves before [others] so we may learn from what others have lived. It is only when we have added their expertise to our own that we can truly excel towards our most ambitious goals and reach our fullest potential. ~ A.J. Darkholme

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

I feel like I can be infinitely inspired because New York is huge. There's always a new street I can go to, or a billion new people who I haven't met that I could write about. New York is very humbling. ~ Frankie Cosmos

Suffering is humbling. It pays to know how to get your butt kicked. ~ Christopher McDougall

I feel like going to class every morning is so humbling. You're always working to improve, and you're always being critiqued on your next performance. It's not about what you've done. There's always room to grow. ~ Misty Copeland

Things are pretty strange in this world and people do it many ways and you are just an atom in a galaxy of possibilities and your opinions and your science and 'What I think' and all that, is just so much noise in a very complex and busy world. And its that same humbling perception that comes out of psychedelics. It just shows you, you're very parochial. ~ Terence McKenna