Humbling Experience Quotes

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

Paul McCartney

#2. 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

#3. Doing a musical is not just acting. It's total theater. When you have to justify the enormous projection of energy it takes to just go into song and dance, you realized why it's such a humbling experience every time you go into a show.

Donna McKechnie

#4. The acting world is a humbling experience, I find.

Sharlto Copley

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. The immensity of the universe with the vastness of space and uncountable heavenly bodies is so outside our control and power. What is man compared to such awesome magnificence? It is a humbling experience to note one's insignificance.

Sharon Lathan

#9. 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

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

LeBron James

#11. Our humbling experience of sin is a mark of maturity. To be humbled by sin is to be marked by grace. Christian holiness is not the eradication of the sin nature, at least not on this side of eternity.

Tony Reinke

#12. As far as being a 'player's player,' you've only got to go to Nashville or Argentina and you can forget about it. The world is full of amazing guitar players, and you know it, and I know it ... it's a humbling experience ...

Mark Knopfler

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. Gardening is a humbling experience.

Martha Stewart

#17. The artist and the mother are vehicles, not originators. They don't create the new life, they only bear it. This is why birth is such a humbling experience. The new mom weeps in awe at the little miracle in her arms. She knows it came out of her but not from her, through her but not of her.

Steven Pressfield

#18. Yes, it hurts to fall
ache, tenderness
- but each scar is a sign your system is working.

Kelli Russell Agodon

#19. Microresolutions focus on doing, not being. Being different follows, rather than precedes, deliberate action.

Caroline L. Arnold

#20. Travel, for me, is a breathtaking experience. A humbling for the soul and the realization that we are all in this together.

Michael Holbrook

#21. Some girls are full of heartache and poetry and those are the kind of girls who try to save wolves instead of running away from them.

Nikita Gill

#22. When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.

Joseph Joubert

#23. This hard place in which you perhaps find yourself is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look only to Him, to spend time in prayer, and to learn long-suffering, gentleness, meekness - in short, to learn the depths of the love that Christ Himself has poured out on all of us.

Elisabeth Elliot

#24. Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#25. I'm all for a quiet life. I just didn't get one.

Keith Richards

#26. I have found the study of organisms to be a truly exciting experience, always interesting and sometimes humbling.

Edward T. Hall

#27. I am happy with you." It was only a half-lie. In truth, being with him made me happier than anything. But it was a bittersweet happiness because from this moment on, it would be overshadowed with the wait and wonder of when and how our relationship would dissolve.

Alicia Kobishop

#28. Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.

Alphonse De Lamartine

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

Charley Pride

#30. The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.

Yvon Chouinard

#31. The sine qua non for obtaining a psychedelic experience is humbling yourself to the point where you admit that you must submit to the experience of the plant or the drug. This act of surrender is the major technical function you will be called upon to perform during the psychedelic trip.

Terence McKenna

#32. My mother had been a Latin teacher, and she was always very fascinated with words. She and I shared books and responded to them.

Jean Fritz