Top 33 False Humility Quotes
#1. False humility is thinly veiled ego disguised as self confidence.
Dov Davidoff
#2. False humility is the pride of not being proud, real humility is without the consciousness that pride exists.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#3. Cultivate humility it is the way of connectedness. Beware of false humility it leads to self-righteousness.
Arthur Dobrin
#4. I make these little films. I'm just a working person. I just study people a little bit more. It's more sociological, and it's funny anyway - not that serious. It's not like false humility. I just take it for what it is.
Julie Delpy
#5. My dear, here is lesson number one for using opportunity; waste no time on false humility. Tell the world about your achievements don't wait for someone else to do it.
Kate Alcott
#6. False humility is more insulting than open pride!
Brandon Mull
#7. That was his mistake, the false humility of youth that is itself a sort of pride.
George R R Martin
#8. There is false humility and genuine humility and between them, there is a desire of the practitioner to become humble.
Radhanath Swami
#9. False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.
Criss Jami
#10. It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed.
Charles Dickens
#11. One who has an inferiority complex can never be really humble, but can only have false modesty or false humility.
Sri Chinmoy
#12. the false humility of youth that is itself a sort of pride. It
George R R Martin
#13. False humility is better than no humility at all.
Paul Krassner
#14. False humility and morbid introspection are, in fact, the opposite of brokenness, as they reveal a preoccupation with self, rather than Christ.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#15. Prayer is easier than we think. we want to think it is too hard or too high and holy for us, because that gives us an excuse for not doing it. This is false humility. We can all do it, even the most sinful, shallow, silly, and stupid of us.
Peter Kreeft
#16. Jesus does not want us to walk in a false humility that minimizes how much He enjoys loving us or how much He wants us to enjoy being loved by Him.
Mike Bickle
#17. High and holy ambition
to be a saint
is not opposed to holy humility
total reliance on God's grace. Exactly the opposite. Ambition without humility is ambition that fails. It is pride, which goes before a fall (Prov 16:18). Humility without ambition is false humility.
Peter Kreeft
#18. Humility is one of the most repulsive virtues, nearly always false.
George Mikes
#19. There have been many people for whom limitations, failure, loss, or pain in whatever form turned out to be their greatest teacher. It taught them to let go of false self-images and superficial ego-dictated goals and desires. It gave them depth, humility and compassion. It made them more real.
Eckhart Tolle
#20. I believe this not in the sense that it is part of my creed, but in the sense that it is one of my opinions. My religion would not be in ruins if this opinion were shown to be false.
C.S. Lewis
#21. Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.
Richard Rohr
#22. False modesty is an attempt to tear yourself down. True humility focuses more on build up others.
Tony Dungy
#23. I often use alcohol as an artificial check on my skills.
Bill Bryson
#24. True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.
C.S. Lewis
#25. God didn't create you to walk around in self-defeat in any form. Neither are we fashioned to become someone's emotional slave; adhering to the harshness of their words in humility and remorse, while fearing a verbal lashing if we reject their false authority.
T.K. Ware
#26. Thus in order to be a "radical" one must be open to the possibility that one's own core assumptions are misconceived.
Christopher Hitchens
#27. May any praise of your character come from others instead of yourself.
Joyce Rachelle
#28. Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.
Bertrand Russell
#30. Have you ever considered making at least a pretense of humility, Mr. Hunt? Just for the sake of politeness?
"I don't believe in false modesty."
"People might like you more if you did."
"Would you?
Lisa Kleypas
#31. Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.
Paulo Coelho
#33. The assumption that we are infallible can we justify the suppression of opinions we think false. Ages are as fallible as individuals, every age having held many opinions which subsequent ages have deemed not only false but absurd.
John Stuart Mill
