Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

It is, indeed, a trial to maintain the virtue of humility when one can't help being right.

The opposite of humility is arrogance--the belief that we are wiser or better than others. Arrogance promotes separation rather than community. It looms like a brick wall between us and those from whom we could learn.

There is just arrogance in even having an opinion.

You have seen in football that if you start to think you are the 'Special One,' or that you are better than the others, that is the moment when you will be beaten.

I'm keenly aware of the Pride coming before the Fall . . . but I really do like what I've been able to do here.

A proud person is so busy looking down on others they cannot humble themselves to look up at God.

Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.

It's wonderful to win, but don't get cocky about it!

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.

One may be humble out of pride.

To be honored by success is to take your life seriously. To humble-talk about it is to take yourself seriously.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

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

If I was sharp in every area, I might be too big-headed or something.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

I think I know it all, relatively speaking.

Success can set the table for tragedy if the victors are not careful.

Unbridled arrogance is worse than pride; for if pride will not break a superior, arrogance will not brook and equal.

Even if we achieve gigantic successes in our work, there is no reason whatsoever to feel conceited and arrogant. Modesty helps one to go forward, whereas conceit makes one lag behind.

I have no business carrying myself like some diva.

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

I don't want you to think I'm better than people or that I know better than people.

You never can stay enough humbled.

One thing that I've learned is that you don't have to be a prima donna or think you are better than other people in order to succeed.