Top 100 Humility Pride Quotes
#1. Gratitude is twin sister to humility; Pride is foe to both.
James E. Talmage
#2. Your emotions are exposed when you play golf: humility, pride, anger, it all comes out with each swing. You lay it all on the line.
Bryant Gumbel
#3. The reality is that everybody makes mistakes. The issue isn't whether you will make them, it's what you will do about them. It's whether you will choose the path of humility and courage or the path of ego and pride.
Stephen Covey
#4. When pride retreats from a man, humility begins to dwell in him, and the more pride is diminished, so much more does humility grow. The one gives way to the other as to its opposite. Darkness departs and light appears. Pride is darkness, but humility is light.
Tikhon Of Zadonsk
#5. About humility we speak with an analogy: When the branches are full of fruit, they just bow down.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#6. 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
#7. Ingratitude produces pride while gratitude produces humility.
Orrin Woodward
#8. In the name of "force protection," the military often rolls up windows, builds walls, and points rifles at the outside world. The best force protection, however, is to be surrounded by friends and allies.
Eric Greitens
#9. May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility.
Leigh Hunt
#11. Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.
Criss Jami
#12. Humility saves man: pride makes him lose his way.
Pope Francis
#14. We rise up to God in pride, while God descends to us in humility.
Michael S. Horton
#15. Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
William Penn
#16. An angel fell from Heaven without any other passion except pride, and so we may ask whether it is possible to ascend to Heaven by humility alone, without any other of the virtues.
John Climacus
#17. Recognizing your talents doesn't mean believing they're limitless. Accepting your strengths doesn't lead to pride, but instead to humility; you're less likely to resent what others have if you understand your own bounty.
Gina Barreca
#18. It's better to find success through God, than finding it on one's own merits; some who usually find their own success become boastful, where through God it's with gratitude.
Anthony Liccione
#19. The key quality that anyone has to develop - a regular person as well as a warrior - is humility. If you don't try to develop humility, what you end up developing is pride, and that's destructive; it destroys yourself and it destroys the world around you.
Vladimir Vasiliev
#21. To feel the joy of life, sell your pride and get lost in the simplicity and humility.
Debasish Mridha
#22. Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own faults should make a man humbler, when it is beneficial, not prouder, which the thought that he ought to have been above these faults makes him.
Paul Brunton
#23. God made us and God is able to empower us to do whatever he calls us to do. Denying that we can accomplish God's work is not humility; it is the worst kind of pride.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#24. Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
Fulton J. Sheen
#26. For with any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. There comes a certain point in such conditions when only three things are possible: first a perpetuation of Satanic pride, secondly tears, and third laughter.
G.K. Chesterton
#27. Those who consider themselves good teachers probably aren't.
Joseph Epstein
#28. Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.
Lydia Sigourney
#29. It is an illusion to worry about pride without having those things that may predispose someone to fall into the trap of pride...
Assegid Habtewold
#30. That is what mature faith requires - not pride over how much one sees and understands, but humility, the feeling that one is still a child, certain of so little, still so dependent on God and others, with so much still to learn - including so much more to learn about humility.
Brian D. McLaren
#31. Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.
Charles Spurgeon
#32. 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
#33. Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one's pride in proving oneself right with one's zeal for finding the truth.
Criss Jami
#34. Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was definitely not encouraged, and pleasure or pride would be punishable by death.
Hugh Laurie
#35. Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over with pride, which hides them from other men's observation, and sometimes from our own too.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#36. Satan's number one weapon is pride. God's number one defense is humility.
Larry Burkett
#37. And the respect which he felt for her high rank, and his veneration for her as his patroness, mingling with a very good opinion of himself, of his authority as a clergyman, and his right as a rector, made him altogether a mixture of pride and obsequiousness, self-importance and humility.
Jane Austen
#38. There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are in effect returning to the ground of our being.
David Whyte
#42. At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.
Pearl S. Buck
#43. Later, concealment of pride in humility came to be recognized as a deliberate and useful tactic which Sophia - renamed Catherine - used when confronting crisis and danger. Threatened, she drew around herself a cloak of meekness, deference, and temporary submission.
Robert K. Massie
#44. Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul.
Robert Genn
#45. If you would like to live in a community in which you may have pride, then dedicate yourself in a spirit of humility and your responsibilities in that community.
Herbert V. Prochnow
#47. Pride divides the men, humility joins them.
Socrates
#48. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
Ann Landers
#49. 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
#50. A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.
Walter Lippmann
#51. The Oracle at Delphi contained three maxims emblematic of Greek life. "Know yourself." "Nothing in excess." and, "Offer a guarantee and disaster threatens.
Anthony Everitt
#52. Self-consciousness isn't just A curse. It is part of THE curse.
Mark Batterson
#53. Faith and humility are at their root one, and that we can never have more of true faith than we have of true humility. It is possible to have strong intellectual convictions and assurance of the truth while pride is still in the heart, but it makes living faith, which has power with God, impossible.
Andrew Murray
#54. True knowledge should not produce pride; it should produce humility ... Because the more you know, the more you know how much you don't know.
Mark Batterson
#55. 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
#56. Obedience and humility require courage and strength of character. Weakness and fear cause one to fall back on his or her pride, which results in a vicious cycle
Sienna McQuillen
#57. May any praise of your character come from others instead of yourself.
Joyce Rachelle
#58. Pride refuses to be taught. Humility refuses not to be
Brad Lomenick
#59. The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.
David Halberstam
#60. 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
#61. There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#62. Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#63. To be part of the creation, I must act humbly. I'll take that over a goddess any day!
Maureen O'Hara
#64. Pride, in its core, is thinking higher or lower of ourselves than God thinks of us. Humility is agreeing at the heart level with God's opinion of us.
Anna Blanc
#65. Pride makes us artificial; humility makes us real
Thomas Merton
#66. 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
#67. Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.
Andrew Murray
#68. The actual confident man, the man truly sure of himself, is not he who esteems himself higher than others, but he who is sure enough that he can bear to esteem others higher than himself.
Criss Jami
#69. Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#70. When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.
Ken Follett
#71. There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it; the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it.
Criss Jami
#72. In Christ, man who made himself God encounters God who made himself man. Unrivaled self-importance and pride encounters unrivaled self-emptying and humility.
Christopher West
#73. People tend to think that money makes them strong, but it's those that learn to survive without it, are truly the stronger.
Anthony Liccione
#74. If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.
Paul Keating
#75. If truth is like the terrain, are we the generation who sees it as one who has worn shoes all his life or one who has never worn shoes? Yet still, even if the walk starts out as painful, the experience may be well worth it.
Criss Jami
#76. When I begin praying Christ into someone's life, God often permits suffering in that person's life. If Satan's basic game plan is pride, seeking to draw us into his life of arrogance, then God's basic game plan is humility, drawing us into the life of his Son.
Paul E. Miller
#77. Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance of humility.
Matthew Henry
#78. It is true that I have been studying both humility and pride for many years for the purpose of weakening pride in my own life and cultivating humility by the grace of God.
C.J. Mahaney
#79. Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow.
Criss Jami
#80. 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
#81. When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.
Criss Jami
#82. A commander's pride got his soldiers dead.
Tom Clancy
#83. Pride is the archenemy of ministry.
Beth Moore
#84. Attitude is an accurate monitor of where we fall on the spectrum of pride and humility.
Erwin Raphael McManus
#85. Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.
Saint Augustine
#87. Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection.
Albert Pike
#88. One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered.
Criss Jami
#89. Humility and pride will forever battle whenever or wherever love is concerned
Jeremy Aldana
#90. Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories.
Criss Jami
#91. In the ancient world, this was understood by the Christians, our only (if very imperfect) predecessors: Humility is a virtue, pride a vice; We comes from God, I from the Devil.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#92. Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
Francis Of Assisi
#93. 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
#94. Knowing and thinking exist for the sake of love
for the sake of building people up in faith. Thinking that produces pride instead of love is not true thinking.
John Piper
#95. His knowledge was deep, but his pride has grown with it.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#96. A student whose life is filled with woes least had and understood the hands of a good teacher that shape lives in a distinctive way
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#97. There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#98. I will never have greater respect than for the man that realizes he was wrong and graciously admits it without a single excuse.
Dan Pearce
#99. You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.
Criss Jami
#100. At every step of our Christian development and in every sphere of our Christian discipleship, pride is the greatest enemy and humility our greatest friend.
John Stott
