Pride And Humility Quotes

We can choose to humble ourselves by loving God, adjusting our will to His, and putting Him first in our lives.

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.

you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

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.

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

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

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.

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. . . .

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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