John Bunyan Quotes

If we were humble, nothing would change us-neither praise nor discouragement. If someone were to criticize us, we would not feel discouraged. If someone would praise us, we also would not feel proud.

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.

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.

My mother helped me to be who I am: to have strength and not to let people run all over me and yet to be humble; to realise that all of this that I have today could be gone.

Personality-wise, I like to avoid putting my pride on parade.

It might come off as cocky, but I've been through a lot in my life.

No amount of praise should go to your head. You should always remain humble.

Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad

He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

Every step that I've taken was a learning lesson. Even to not think you're so big and so bad you can't fall.

A humble person is not one who thinks little of himself, hangs his head and says, "I'm nothing." Rather, he is one who depends wholly on the Lord for everything, in every circumstance.

Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.

I learned that it is better, a thousandfold , for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his pride and fancied innocence. I learned that he that will be a hero, will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work, is sure of his manhood. In nothing was my ideal lowered, or dimmed, or grown less precious; I only saw it too plainly, to set myself for a moment beside it.

God show me the way because the Devil trying to break me down

If you're not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you.

You've got to be humble really to be yourself or to get a chance to be yourself.

Young men, I beseech you earnestly, beware of pride. Two things are said to be very rare sights in the world- one is a young man that is humble, and the other is an old man that is content. I fear that this is only too true.

Man is not meant to be humble, he’s meant to be humbled.

It feels great to be on top of the world but the greatest feeling is when your feet are on the ground.

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

The humble man makes room for progress; the proud man believes he is already there.

Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble.