Humble people

bobbyss

Humility is a rare gift that few people have. Anyone know famous humble people? How about Aiden O''Brien? Racehorse trainer extraordinaire. When he's interviewed after winning the Derby for example, he seems grateful to be asked about it in the first place.
Michael Fassbender? Don't know much about him but he seems somewhat humble. Anyone else?

DontThankMe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvTRZJ-4EyI

Kate Humble?

myshirt

Humble Pie Man, cousin of Regular Pie Man

daraghmack

Conor McGregor 😂😂

Dirty Dingus McGee

There's nothing more tedious and boring to listen to than false humility from sportspeople, there is a happy medium between it and being like Conor McGregor.

Noveight

I remember I had an excellent teacher in secondary school who died 3-4 years in to his retirement. He was a humble, gentle man and in the memorial piece of the school yearbook they included a quote from Othello:

I have done the state some service, and they know it. No more of that.

Such a fitting quote for a person who never sought out recognition or praise.

Carry

I'm humble. Not that I'm bragging about it, because I'm humble. But am I not great because I'm humble?

I think in Ireland everyone is considered humble who is not a pompous git with notions.

I'd prefer the term down to earth or approachable.

Samaris

Keanu Reeves by all accounts is a gent.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Donnie Trump. Always seems to remember the little people.

Jim Bob Scratcher

Roger Moore

greencap

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Kate Humble?

took a tumble while eating apple crumble.

thats what happens when you bumble.

maybe next time she wont stumble.

suicide_circus

Noveight wrote: »

I remember I had an excellent teacher in secondary school who died 3-4 years in to his retirement. He was a humble, gentle man and in the memorial piece of the school yearbook they included a quote from Othello:



Such a fitting quote for a person who never sought out recognition or praise.

I can't separate that quote from Charles J Haughey

pickarooney

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Donnie Trump. Always seems to remember the little people.

Also Darby O'Gill.

Yourself isit

suicide_circus wrote: »

I can't separate that quote from Charles J Haughey

Was going to say. Not humble there.

Tilikum

Samaris wrote: »

Keanu Reeves by all accounts is a gent.

Although he's a ****e actor, he's a class human being.

Bono

Atoms for Peace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYKWch_MNY0

BillyBobBS

Speaking from personal experience Daniel Day Lewis. Met him out on his motorbike one day in Wicklow and ended up chatting to him for the guts of 30 minutes about bikes and other stuff. Genuinely sound down to earth guy imo.

Lorelli!

I always thought in interviews ive seen that Lemmy came across as quite humble and authentic although it seems he'd disagree but only a truly humble person would deny their humility

bobbyss

Wayne Rooney always very modest.

razorblunt

Denis Irwin.

Lisha

''Tis hard to be humble when you are perfect in every way.... that's what my Mammy used to sing to me when I was small.... but then I was a shiitty teen and she stopped..

Dunno why I'm perfect...

bobbyss

Mick Kinane jockey

foxtrot101

Paul McGrath.

SecretsOfEarth

Britney Spears, a woman who is always respectful to interviewers and has glowing reviews from producers, dancers, choreographers and other colleagues. It really shows when she is unaware of statistics regarding her huge successes, figures that other stars would wilfully spout at any given moment.

Fr_Dougal

Roy Keane.

RhubarbCrumble

JP McManus

Irish Guitarist

Dick York who played Darrin on Bewitched. This is a terrible quality video but it's from a longer interview in which he's in agony but is more concerned about campaigning for the homeless that he is about complaining. The longer interview is on YouTube but I can't find it.

PCeeeee

bobbyss wrote: »

Humility is a rare gift that few people have. Anyone know famous humble people? How about Aiden O''Brien? Racehorse trainer extraordinaire. When he's interviewed after winning the Derby for example, he seems grateful to be asked about it in the first place.
Michael Fassbender? Don't know much about him but he seems somewhat humble. Anyone else?

Uriah Heep

Hierro_4

I don't think anybody is truly humble. More often than not the 'humble' person has poor self esteem or is very good at acting.

Summer wind

Sir David Attenborough. A true genius and a total gentleman.

_Whimsical_

I'll be a left of field and the Pope surprised me with his humility. I thought the night he was...elected(is that what they call it?)... he looked terrified and wasn't afraid to show it, he immediately asked the people outside to pray for him, that he'd be able to do the job.

Glenster

Recognition that what you're doing isn't particularly worthy of praise (actor, footballer, youtube star) isn't being humble. It's being self aware.

Jesus was pretty humble. Like how he kept saying he wasn't the messiah or the son of god and stuff.
And then when he died he did all that ghost magic in hell. And he NEVER comes back to take credit for stuff. Solid guy.

Hammer89

A lot of people have told me I'm pretty humble, which is a nice thing because in addition to the great jaw and gigantic knob it's another thing to feel proud about.

Permabear

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Pac1Man

Glenster wrote: »

And he NEVER comes back to take credit for stuff. Solid guy.

If a bit porous.

Akrasia

When I saw this thread, I expected it to be all about me.

But it's fine, if you want to talk about bono and the pope instead of me, that's fine.

(you'll be sorry one day, mark my words)

bobbyss

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No I don't agree. You can see easily humility in a person. I don't think it's an affectation. It's rare and very appealing in someone. Selby Foote, historian of the American Civil War, such humility for such a great man.

smurgen

Roger Federer - one of my favourite sportsmen of all time. He's a ridiculously solid person.

Ann_Landers

There's nothing worse than that faux self-deprecation thing that lots of celebrities do. Barf.

I reserve judgement on things like this because you just never know what someone is truly like unless you are around them all the time. I think it must be hard to not develop an ego as a celeb though, being constantly surrounded by yes men and hangers on.

Professor Moriarty

I have it on good authority that Graham Norton is sound.

_Whimsical_

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

I'll be a left of field and the Pope surprised me with his humility. I thought the night he was...elected(is that what they call it?)... he looked terrified and wasn't afraid to show it, he immediately asked the people outside to pray for him, that he'd be able to do the job.

I read his biography last year. I agree he lives humbly, but his mind and his outlook is quite the opposite, which is a good thing, I think.

Often humility can be indicative of low self-confidence in one's own capabilties. The impression I got from the Pope's biography is that he is overflowing in confidence and is well capable of engaging in robust philosophical debates, as well as being quite hard-headed, even stubborn.

But he doesn't take himself too seriously and appears to reject many of the trappings of ecclesiastical office, and doing so, undermines a lot of the cycnicism many of us have felt about his Church and its hierarchy.

I'm not sure what my point is here. I guess it's that humility is only a positive characteristic if it's balanced with ambition and determination. The pope has it, certainly. In our own country, Sean Lemass had it. Diarmuid Martin does, too. It's a fantastic leadership quality in the right circumstances.

I would think its the opposite of lack of confidence, humble people or more correctly self-effacing people tend to genuinely live in the moment and don't reflect too much on themselves and their successes or failures in life they are also usually very calm and centred people who radiate a sort of inner peace.