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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

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

It is radically humbling to confess that the source of all our joy resides outside ourselves. — John Piper

To do even the most humbling tasks to the glory of God takes the Almighty God Incarnate working in us. Oswald Chambers — Oswald Chambers

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

Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality. — Michael Leunig

Golf is a humbling sport. — Peter Uihlein

Marriage is the Mack truck driving through your life, revealing your flaws and humbling your reactions. — Timothy Keller

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

I like to feel dumb. That's how I know there's more in the world than me. — Susan Sontag

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

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

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

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

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

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 have been a fan of Jesse Terry since the first time I heard him. He's a humble - and humbling - talent. — Tony Arata

Do you really want happiness? Then you will have to pay the price of humbling yourself at the foot of the cross and receiving Christ as Savior. — Billy Graham

Fashion is a humbling topic. Because it is aesthetically complex and economically challenging, the recipe for successful designs is never guaranteed. — Frederic Godart

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Very bad things follow when we kid ourselves that we're naturally rational, rather than the more humbling truth: naturally emotional. — Robert Webb

Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self. — Richard Rohr

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

Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life. — Mark Zuckerberg

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

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

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

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

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 was startling and humbling to realise how much time you could spend with people to whom you meant so little and vice versa — Mhairi McFarlane

Use every opportunity of humbling yourself before your fellow-men as a help to abide humble before God. — Andrew Murray

The truth is humbling, terrifying, and often exhilarating. It blows the doors off the hinges and fills the world with fresh air. — Augusten Burroughs

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

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

I've met a lot of really friendly people who are incredibly happy for me, which is really flattering and humbling. — Allison Tolman

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

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

It is a humbling thing knowing someone cannot live without you, knowing that though they've betrayed you, they wish for nothing but absolution. — Pierce Brown

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

Wow. Talk about humbling. — S.M. Reine

It's humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked. — Gillian Flynn

The implied trust was humbling. He didn't deserve it, but then again, he wouldn't betray it either. — Emma Wildes

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

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

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

Nothing is more humbling than getting your ass kicked. — Mike Tyson

Sadness is like sandpaper; it rubs at our sharper edges, softening and humbling us, making us ready for a coat of compassion. — Richelle E. Goodrich

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

It's a humbling thing being humble. — Maurice Clarett

And that's humbling, knowing that your voice can mean so much to another person. — Kirsty Eagar

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

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

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

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

I have found the study of organisms to be a truly exciting experience, always interesting and sometimes humbling. — Edward T. Hall

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

[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

Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable. — Diane Ackerman

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

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

Gardening is a humbling experience. — Martha Stewart

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

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

The acting world is a humbling experience, I find. — Sharlto Copley

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

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

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

BJJ is like trying to solve a puzzle that keeps changing..so magnificent ... yet completely humbling. — Phillipe Nover

A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others. — Robert E.Lee

It was a humbling thought, to realize the weight of the world could not break him, but the loss of her could have. — Joey W. Hill

Our dedication- devotion- to craft should enlighten as it humbles us. — Ivan Brunetti

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

Life is so humbling, when we slow down and witness the gifts. — Bryant McGill

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