Pride And Humility Quotes - Page 2

• Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

  William Penn

  Ignorance, Humility, Pride

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.147

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• you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Heart, Humility, Looks

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.28, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Catch {a man} at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, "By jove, I'm being humble," and almost immediately pride - pride at his own humility - will appear.

  C. S. Lewis

  Humble, Humility, Pride

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Christian, Plato, Lying

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• Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

  Jane Austen

  Humility, Deceit, Appearance

  Jane Austen, John Halperin (1975). “Jane Austen: Bicentenary Essays”, p.129, CUP Archive

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• Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason.

  Francis Quarles

  Humility, Virtue, Reason

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 485, 1895.

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• We can choose to humble ourselves by confessing and forsaking our sins and being born of God.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Humble, Sin Of Pride, Born

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• We can choose to humble ourselves by loving God, adjusting our will to His, and putting Him first in our lives.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Life, Humble, Adjusting

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• I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

  John Ruskin

  Motivational, Believe, Humility

  John Ruskin (1868). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.348

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• The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.

  Francis Quarles

  Humility, Voice, Silence

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.91

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• Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Humility, Hype

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.110, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspiration, Kids, Humility

  Essais bk. 3, ch. 13 (1580)

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• Attitude is an accurate monitor of where we fall on the spectrum of pride and humility.

  Erwin McManus

  Attitude, Fall, Humility

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2006). “Uprising: A Revolution of the Soul”, p.62, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• As I stood alone and forsaken, and the power of the sea and the battle of the elements reminded me of my own nothingness, and on the other hand, the sure flight of the birds recalled the words spoken by Christ: Not a sparrow shall fall on the ground without your Father: then, all at once, I felt how great and how small I was; then did those two mighty forces, pride and humility, happily unite in friendship.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Father, Fall, Humility

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• 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

  Peace, Fall, Humility

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: Human, all-too-human”

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