35 Movie Quotes about Humility (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jun 28, 2025

Memorable quotes about humility, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Lastly, do not punish yourself for your feelings of vanity. Simply learn to control them. It is an affliction common to all, even on Krypton.

Marlon Brando as Jor El in Superman (1978)

2 Just got lonely bein' so popular. Figure being boring old me was better than tryin' to be something I ain't.

Peter Cullen as Eeyore in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

3 For he did not wish tribute or song, nor monuments, nor poems of war and valor.

Quote from 300

4 By myself, I am nothing. It is the power of God which uses me to work his will.

Charlton Heston as Moses in The Ten Commandments (1956)

5 I'm just too small to be around.

John Fiedler as Piglet in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

6 By Gadfrey, words fail to express my gratitude and all that humble jazz.

Quote from Snagglepuss (1961)

7 Um, humility? -No, not humility. You got bags of humility.

Jackie Cooper as Perry White in Superman (1978)

8 Young man, patience... And a smidgen of humility might also serve you well.

Tom Hanks as The Polar Express Conductor in The Polar Express

9 See, up to this point, I have been the teacher. Maybe this is a chance to become the student.

Bruce Lee as Li Tsung in Longstreet

10 A majestic mountain of humility...

Quote from The Great Mouse Detective