Humility Vs Pride Quotes

#1. May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility.

Leigh Hunt

#2. Don't cap your potential in the name of humility. First, maximize your potential, serve the world with your greatness and then worry about pride lol

Assegid Habtewold

#3. Do not become a disciple of one who praises himself, in case you learn pride instead of humility.

Mark The Evangelist

#4. In my own pursuit of God, I often became preoccupied with ME! It was easy to think that being constantly aware of my faults and weakness was humility. It's not! If I'm the main subject, talking incessantly about my weaknesses, I have entered into the most subtle form of pride.

Bill Johnson

#5. Humility saves man: pride makes him lose his way.

Pope Francis

#6. A seed has to get buried in the soil for its real form as a plant to emerge. Only through modesty and humility can we grow. Pride and conceit will only destroy us. Live with the firm attitude, 'I am everyone's servant.' Then the whole universe will bow down to us.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#7. An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?

Criss Jami

#8. Yet sometimes you just have to sprinkle a dash of sugar on the spoonful of pride and swallow it with a humility chaser.

Erica Larsen

#9. People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.

Criss Jami

#10. 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

#11. Humility is the only thing that no devil can imitate.

John Climacus

#12. Pride sings and dances; humility sighs.

Mason Cooley

#13. We suffer because we have no humility and we do not love our brother. From love of our brother comes the love of God. People do not learn humility, and because of their pride cannot receive the grace of the Holy Spirit, and therefor the whole world suffers.

Silouan The Athonite

#14. At the heart of Christian ethic is humility; at the heart of its parodies, pride. Different roads with different destinations, and the destinations color the character of those who travel by them.

N. T. Wright

#15. A wise man is able to differentiate between humility and weakness, he does not mistake courage for pride.

Newton Gatambia

#16. He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson.

E. M. Forster

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

C.S. Lewis

#18. 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

#19. One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realizing this a mon should take no pleasure in the respect of others, but should devote himself to solitude.

Gautama Buddha

#20. To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness.

William Arthur Ward

#21. Ingratitude produces pride while gratitude produces humility.

Orrin Woodward

#22. He was top-heavy with conceit.

J.M. Barrie

#23. Confession is the giving up of ALL self-righteousness.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#24. A partner's different perspective is valuable, but the very fact that it is different means that it will require work, humility, time, and resources to incorporate that perspective. At times, this will require checking one's pride at the door.

Ron Garan

#25. 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

#26. Oh, Brethren, what is the result of pride? Oh, see what humility can do? What was the need for all these sufferings? For, if from the beginning Man had humbled himself, obeyed God, and kept the commandment he would not have fallen.

Dorotheus Of Gaza

#27. About humility we speak with an analogy: When the branches are full of fruit, they just bow down.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#28. 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

#29. We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.

Edgar Wilson Nye

#30. Always remember, no matter how big you get in life, God is still bigger; when you feel to be at your lowest point, Satan is still at the bottom.

Anthony Liccione