Pride And Humility Quotes

• Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Communication, Kids, Humility

  114 Copy quote

• 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.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Wisdom, Humility

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  162 Copy quote

  Show source

• Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Thanksgiving, Gratitude

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.115

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

  Confucius

  Life, Success, Humble

  "Library of Universal History". Book by Israel Smith Clare, p. 539, 1899.

  40 Copy quote

  Show source

• It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

  Saint Augustine

  Humility, Angel, Pride

  "Manipulus Florum". Book edited by Thomas Hibernicus,

  176 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Pride, Mind, Devil

  20 Copy quote

• Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pride, Men, Competition

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.

  C. S. Lewis

  Humility, Sin Of Pride, Long

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  42 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Humility, Evil

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.399

  98 Copy quote

  Show source

• A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Kids

  30 Copy quote

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Humility, Pride, Men

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Humility, Unwise, Wisest

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Vincent de Paul

  Truth, Lying, Humility

  179 Copy quote

• Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

  Thomas Fuller

  Humble, Humility, Pride

  13 Copy quote

• Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.

  Vanna Bonta

  Giving Up, Humility, Pride

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

  Ann Landers

  Dog, Witty, Cat

  24 Copy quote

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

  Charles Spurgeon

  Humility, Race, Proud

  21 Copy quote

• Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Humility

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

  73 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

  Thomas Merton

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Fake People

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.119, Shambhala Publications

  74 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Monica Baldwin

  Humility, Doe, Intimacy

  22 Copy quote

• The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

  Solomon

  Bible, Knowledge, Understanding God

  107 Copy quote

• 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. . . .

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Sister, Brother, Humble

  11 Copy quote

• To find the balance you want, this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have 4 legs instead of 2. That way, you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Humility, Heart, Feet

  17 Copy quote

• 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.

  Francis Quarles

  Love, God, Heart

  78 Copy quote