Top 79 Humble Pride Quotes
#1. A soul does not benefit from the sacrament of confession if it is not humble. Pride keeps it in darkness. The soul neither knows how, nor is it willing, to probe with precision the depths of its own misery. It puts on a mask and avoids everything that might bring it recovery.
Mary Faustina Kowalska
#2. Parochialism remains the Danes' defining characteristic, but their radically recalibrated sense of identity and national pride has created a curious duality best described as a kind of "humble pride," though many often mistake it for smugness.
Michael Booth
#3. I won't pretend that I've arrived at humble orthodoxy. When I gain a bit of theological knowledge, I all too frequently get puffed up with pride. But I'll tell you what deflates my arrogance and self-righteousness faster than anything else: trying to live whatever truth I have.
Joshua Harris
#4. Be humble about it. Paint the color tones as they come against each other, and make them sing, vibrate. Don't ask me to look at those self-satisfied, pretty things.
Charles Webster Hawthorne
#5. It's not what you have on the outside that glitters in light, it's what you have on the inside that shines in the dark.
Anthony Liccione
#6. Cockiness is a display of an empty lifestyle, humility is when you see yourself as a zero while others are making you their hero.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#7. Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.
Pindar
#8. 23. A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
Anonymous
#9. Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.
C.S. Lewis
#10. My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
William Tecumseh Sherman
#11. It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher, wider, and rarer joys than theirs.
Charles Baudelaire
#13. The very first step to becoming a follower of Jesus Christ is the humble admission that we need him. Nothing keeps us out of the kingdom of God more surely than our pride and self-sufficiency.
John R.W. Stott
#14. Christ commands you to take up His cross and follow Him, not that He may humble you, or lay some penance upon you, but that you may surrender the low self-will and the feeble pride of your sin, and ascend into the sublime patience of heavenly charity.
Horace Bushnell
#15. Pride is a human nature and it's good for people to be proud of themselves, achievements, etc. but too much of anything is not healthy. Humble is pride exhibited through humility, so be humble and prideful about being humble.
Uzoma Nnadi
#16. On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is hopeless.
Thomas Merton
#17. Intellectuals tend to be arrogant. Intelligence, like money, is a good servant but a bad master. When practicing pranayama, the yogi [makes] himself humble and without pride in his intellectual attainments.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#18. God wants you to be truthful and humble to yourself and others. He made you good and industrious, but you can't benefit from it if you always stumble on pride.
Stevan V. Nikolic
#19. I rather choose to go through what will make me humble than to go for what will increase my pride to a level without limit
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#20. For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he is fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.
Criss Jami
#21. False humility is the pride of not being proud, real humility is without the consciousness that pride exists.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#24. The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. Knowing what we are, the pride that shines in our mother's eyes as she looks at us is about the most pathetic thing a man has to face, but he would be a devil altogether if it did not burn some of the sin out of him.
James M. Barrie
#25. Proverbs 29:23 23A man's pride will bring him low, But the humble in spirit will retain honor.
Anonymous
#26. Professions of humility are the very cream, the very essence of pride; the really humble person wishes to be, and not to appear so. Humility is timorous, and starts at her shadow; and so delicate that if she hears her name pronounced it endangers her existence.
Saint Francis De Sales
#27. You proudly said. We are Humans! In reality, we are a bunch of sarcastic, selfish and stupid well-intentioned creatures without any remorse for anything. So, think again about your pride and become, at least, more humble.
J.B.Alves
#28. If a man is devout, we accuse him of hypocrisy; if he is not, of impiety; if he is humble, we look on his humility as a weakness; if he is generous, we call his courage pride.
Louis Bourdaloue
#29. One who is wise and disciplined, always kind and intelligent, humble and free from pride. One like this will be praised.
Gautama Buddha
#30. I'm never going to forget Wellston. It's where I grew up. It's my heart and my pride. The people are great here. I'm going to give back. I was born and raised here. I'm a humble person. The community knows that. I want to build it back to how it was and be a happier place than it was.
Ben McLemore
#31. Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may be arrogant.
John Piper
#32. They may hail you like an Angel. They may claim you are the world's prince of princes. They may lift you with praise many kilometers above sea level. They may say you are the best of the bests ... But always remember "you are a human being" with flesh and blood.
Israelmore Ayivor
#33. When we walk in pride, we forfeit grace. But when we humble ourselves, grace awaits.
Pilgrim Benham
#34. Choose your battles wisely, and do not let your pride get the better of you. A wise queen is a just and humble one.
Farah Oomerbhoy
#35. The man who acts humble in order to win praise is guilty of the lowest form of pride.
Nachman Of Breslov
#36. Young men, I beseech you earnestly, beware of pride. Two things are said to be very rare sights in the world - one is a young man that is humble, and the other is an old man that is content. I fear that this is only too true.
J.C. Ryle
#37. Jesus had a humble heart. If He abides in us, pride will never dominate our lives.
Billy Graham
#38. God Himself heals the proud. This means that inner sorrows (by which pride is healed) are sent to us by God, for the proud man will not suffer anything from others. But the humble person will endure everything, and will always say, 'I deserve this.'
Ambrose Of Optina
#39. The Lord does not show Himself to a proud soul. The proud soul, no matter how many books it reads, will never know God, since by its pride it does not give place for the grace of the Holy Spirit, while God is known only by the humble soul.
Silouan The Athonite
#40. Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
Blaise Pascal
#41. I saw only the reality of his destiny, which he had known
how to follow with unfaltering footsteps, that life begun in humble
surroundings, rich in generous enthusiasms, in friendship, love, war
in
all the exalted elements of romance.
Joseph Conrad
#42. So much of how we act and what we do is based on humility or pride - that's everything. And when you can humble yourself, you know, we are more like Christ when we can humble ourselves.
Tim Tebow
#45. Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble.
Blaise Pascal
#46. Put off the fire of pride and save your life from burning with flames of failure. Pride is the reason why many dreams only survive as ashes today. Learn the lesson; hung on to humility!
Israelmore Ayivor
#47. A great deal of struggle and sorrow in the world comes from misguided feelings of pride of ownership and possessiveness, versus the humble spirit of stewardship as common temporary inheritors of the great resources of earth.
Bryant McGill
#48. Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
Fulton J. Sheen
#49. Be humble and set the balls of your dreams rolling till God himself decides what next! As for "pride", allow it to go as a lone ranger!
Israelmore Ayivor
#51. A person who is obsessed with Jesus knows that the sin of pride is always a battle. Obsessed people know that you can never be 'humble enough,' and so they seek to make themselves less known and Christ more known [Matthew 5:16].
Francis Chan
#52. Having reached a high level of realization (or having accomplished anything in life), don't get excited or puffed up with pride but remain calm, humble, and in "perfect equanimity" if you want to continue in this deep state of consciousness.
Laozi
#53. There is always a zone where somebody is nobody; there is always a zone where somebody is somebody and there is always a zone where nobody is nobody
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#54. Never wear pride as the jersey of your dreams. You will miss the goal and lose your dreams if you put on pride!
Israelmore Ayivor
#56. Hold value; not price,
carry moral; not pride.
be of compassion; not selfishness,
humble in your approach to live and
loving with your gift to share.
Nikki Rowe
#57. Until you know someone's full story, it is just a guess to determine whether s/he is pride full or humble, out of touch with reality or grounded.
Assegid Habtewold
#58. The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#60. When pride comes, then comes dishonor, but with the humble is wisdom (Prov. 11:2;
Alexander Strauch
#61. This accession of territory affirms forever the power of the United States, and I have given England a maritime rival who sooner or later will humble her pride.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#62. If you have not seen the real end of the journey, don't boast much at the beginning and never be too proud and haughty in mid of the path. Keep the real end in mind and mind how to get to the real end successfully!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#63. He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#64. Never believe you're so great or important, so right or proud, that you cannot kneel at the feet of someone you hurt and offer a humble, sincere apology.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#65. Get rid of pride; it'll only ride you to the wrong side of life. May God's words guide your faith to abide in true humility. Kick off pride; embrace humility!
Israelmore Ayivor
#66. Works which endure come from the soul of the people. The mighty in their pride walk alone to destruction. The humble walk hand in hand with providence to immortality. Their works survive.
Calvin Coolidge
#67. All His works are true and His ways are just. And He is able to humble those who walk in pride. Daniel 4:37
Beth Moore
#68. False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.
Criss Jami
#69. A day came when all the rebel in me knew itself beaten, and then my whole nature bowed down in humble resignation in the dust. And then I saw... I saw that he was as incomparable in beauty as he was in terror. I was saved, I was rescued.
Rabindranath Tagore
#70. Only the inner vision of God, only the God-blindedness of unreservedly dedicated souls, only the utterly humble ones can bow and break the raging pride of a power-mad world.
Thomas Raymond Kelly
#71. Humble is pride exhibited through humility.
Uzoma Nnadi
#72. He that is down needs fear no fall. He that is low, no pride; He that is humble, ever shall have God to be his Guide.
John Bunyan
#73. These possessions of a simpleton being the three I choose and cherish: to care, to be fair, to be humble.
Laozi
#75. The warrior who goes off to battle should not boast as the one who returns from it.
Richard Paul Evans
#76. Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble.
Hannah More
#77. I love you without knowing how, nor when, nor from where,
I love you directly without problems or pride:
I love you this way because I know no other way to love,
Pablo Neruda
#78. I cannot raise my worth too high; Of what vast consequence am I! "Not of the importance you suppose," Replies a Flea upon his nose; "Be humble, learn thyself to scan; Know, pride was never made for man.
John Gay
