Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes

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

A man may be humble through vainglory.

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

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

When boasting ends, there dignity begins.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.

If you are too proud, you don't do business.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

My mom has always said that if I get a big head, she'll take me out of this business as quickly as I got into it.

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

I don't walk around big headed. I'm not a superstar.

Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.

Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.

You never can stay enough humbled.

I'm a very humble guy.

I don't choose to be humble.

You must never get carried away by your success; many people tend to do so after they achieve success in the initial stages of their life. Your feet must be on the ground all the time.

I'm trying not to get too big-headed.

It's okay to be confident, but not arrogant.

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.