Max Lucado Quotes

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

I have a healthy amount of humility.

A little humility never hurts.

Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.

I'm constantly humbled.

I am not better than anyone else just because I play football.

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

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

I don't find it hard to stay humble.

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

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

If we learn not humility, we learn nothing.

On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they'd let me know right away.

I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty.

I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.

Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.

Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.

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.

I certainly had an arrogant streak. And I certainly was defensive in certain cases. Maybe I'm still arrogant, but I try not to be.

I've seen people, when they get into these bigger and bigger jobs, it goes to their heads. I've seen it. Some people in life change who they are, and some don't. I'm basically the same guy I've always been.

I never like to say that I'm better than anybody else.

It's important to stay humble.

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.

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