George MacDonald Quotes

If thou seest anything in thyself which may make thee proud, look a little further and thou shalt find enough to humble thee; if thou be wise, view the peacock's feathers with his feet, and weigh thy best parts with thy imperfections.

Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.

I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.

Maybe at the same time as I'm more confident today, I'm also more humble.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

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.

When people call me God, I say, no, I'm still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go.

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

Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain.

I never dwell on what I've personally achieved.

I think I've certainly learned a lot of lessons in humility and continue to work on that part of myself.

I really don't look at my accomplishments. I really don't think about myself much.

I'm not a perfect human being by any stretch of the imagination. But there is always this little voice inside of me that keeps me where I know I need to be.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.

Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.

Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement.

We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.

If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you are not conceited, it means that you are very conceited indeed.

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

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.

If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.

We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.

I can talk about humility, but I'm not humble. I mean, if you say, I'm humble, you've just contradicted yourself. But I'm trying to be, man, I'm trying so hard.