Jack Kerouac Quotes

Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.

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.

I struggle with pride every day, but the one thing that I try to remind myself everyday is that I'm still a sinner no matter how many points/assists/win I get on the court.

They that know God will be humble. They that know themselves cannot be proud.

You are not mature if you have a high esteem of yourself. He who boasts in himself is but a babe in Christ, if indeed he be in Christ at all. Young Christians may think much of themselves. Growing Christians think themselves nothing. Mature Christians know that they are less than nothing. The more holy we are, the more we mourn our infirmities, and the humbler is our estimate of ourselves.

True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility.

Always try to see yourself through God's eyes.

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.

I don't find it hard to stay humble.

Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility.

I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.

This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.

I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, 'Does this suck?' and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, 'I'm on fire, I'm amazing!' and I don't think that's the way to work.

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions.

Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.

It's not that hard to stay grounded. It's the way I was brought up.

I hope I don't have a big ego. I try to keep that in check. But I am a prideful person, I will say.

I might have faults but I'm not a big head.

Forget 'full of myself,' I'm not remotely impressed with myself.

I'm not so proud to think that anything is unworthy, and I don't think I was that way 10 years ago.

The word of God teacheth lowliness of mind; it teacheth us to know ourselves.

I never want to become arrogant and think I've made a flawless movie.

I never dwell on what I've personally achieved.