Pride And Humility Quotes:

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

- Ezra Taft Benson

topic: Communication, Kids, Humility, Pride And Humility, Humility And Leadership

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: God, Wisdom, Pride, Looking Down, Christian Humility

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Life, Thanksgiving, Grateful, Inspirational Thanksgiving, Funny Thanksgiving Day

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

- Confucius

topic: Life, Success, Humble, True Humility, Confucianism

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

- Saint Augustine

source: "Manipulus Florum". Book edited by Thomas Hibernicus,

topic: Humility, Angel, Pride, Humbleness, Christian Humility

Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Pride, Mind, Devil, Christian Humility, Pride And Humility

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Pride, Men, Competition, Pride And Humility, Proud Man

As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.

- C. S. Lewis

source: C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Humility, Sin Of Pride, Long, Christian Humility, Pride And Humility

Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility.

- Jonathan Edwards

source: Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.399

topic: Christian, Humility, Evil, Christian Humility, Pride And Humility

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Spiritual, Kids, Pride And Humility, True Genius

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Unwise, Pride And Humility

Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.

- Vincent de Paul

topic: Truth, Lying, Humility, Nothing But The Truth, Pride And Humility

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

- Thomas Fuller

topic: Humble, Humility, Pride, Pride And Humility

Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.

- Vanna Bonta

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Giving Up, Humility, Pride, Dignity And Pride, Pride And Humility

Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

- Ann Landers

topic: Dog, Finding Yourself, Admiration, Man And Dog, Inspirational Dog

Be not proud of race, face, place, or grace.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Humility, Race, Proud, Christian Humility, Pride And Humility

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Inspirational, Life, Humility, Philanthropic, Charity And Generosity

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

- Thomas Merton

topic: Inspirational, Wisdom, Fake People, True Humility, Dignity And Pride

What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.

- Monica Baldwin

topic: Humility, Doe, Intimacy, Marvelous Things, Pride And Humility

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

- Solomon

topic: Lord, Knowledge And Wisdom, God Fearing Man, Learning Knowledge, Wise Counsel

We can choose to humble ourselves by conquering enmity toward our brothers and sisters, esteeming them as ourselves, and lifting them as high or higher than we are. . . .

- Ezra Taft Benson

topic: Sister, Brother, Humble, Confessing, Rendering

To find the balance you want, this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have 4 legs instead of 2. That way, you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Heart, Humility, Feet, Eat Pray And Love, Eat Pray Love Book

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

- Francis Quarles

topic: Love, Heart, Humble, Pride And Humility, Humble Heart

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

- William Penn

topic: Ignorance, Humility, Pride, Attire, Pride And Humility

Catch {a man} at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, "By jove, I'm being humble," and almost immediately pride - pride at his own humility - will appear.

- C. S. Lewis

source: C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

topic: Humble, Humility, Pride, Poor In Spirit, Pride And Humility

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Christian, Plato, Lying, Going To Sleep, Pride And Humility

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

- Jane Austen

topic: Humility, Hype, Deceit, Deceitful, Carelessness

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

- John Ruskin

source: John Ruskin (1868). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.348

topic: Motivational, Believe, Humility, Pride And Humility, Haughty

The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.

- Francis Quarles

topic: Humility, Voice, Silence, Pride And Humility

It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must walk. And on the highest throne in the world we are still sitting on our own ass.

- Michel de Montaigne

source: Essais bk. 3, ch. 13 (1580)

topic: Vanity, Thrones, Sitting, Stilts, Pride And Humility

Attitude is an accurate monitor of where we fall on the spectrum of pride and humility.

- Erwin McManus

topic: Attitude, Fall, Humility, Pride And Humility

As I stood alone and forsaken, and the power of the sea and the battle of the elements reminded me of my own nothingness, and on the other hand, the sure flight of the birds recalled the words spoken by Christ: Not a sparrow shall fall on the ground without your Father: then, all at once, I felt how great and how small I was; then did those two mighty forces, pride and humility, happily unite in friendship.

- Soren Kierkegaard

topic: Father, Fall, Humility, Pride And Humility

The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

source: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: Human, all-too-human”

topic: Peace, Fall, Humility, Pride And Humility