Max Lucado Quotes

Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.

Humility is the forgetfulness of self.

Be humble, don't have too much pride and think you're too good for anything.

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.

Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.

Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.

I like Messi because he doesn't think he is Messi.

Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over with pride, which hides them from other men's observation, and sometimes from our own too.

Humility's a real thing - not just a fine name for laziness.

I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.

It's important to stay humble.

Modesty isn't one of my strong suits.

We've grown up with the idea that even when you're at the top, act like you're at the bottom.

You just have to stay humble.

The things [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge papal mansion and just dropped by in the dining room where ordinary people have meals. You think of his background, where he didn't use limousines in South America, that he used public transport.

What is modesty but inverted pride?

Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.

I think when you're as talented as me or you, you don't need to have an ego. On a serious note, the people I most admire in the world in my field have never shown that much ego to me.

Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented with fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere.--Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.

Humility consists in not esteeming ourselves above other men, and in not seeking to be esteemed above them.

The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.

Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.

Humility is a virtue; timidity is an illness.