Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.

My message to the world is to surrender your ego: try not to think that you are not as fortunate as some people or inferior or not as good as someone else.

People can overlook any shortcoming, but they will not tolerate arrogance.

I used to be real cocky about what I do but then I realized it's not me, all of this is really God's gift and whenever He want to, He can take it away.

Deflating inflated egos is so important to God that He offers to help.

The favor of God does not bless self-promotion

Pride leaves no room for grace.

Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.

It's not hard to get a girl if I wanted one. But it doesn't mean you want it, and even if you did, you're certainly not going to rub it in anybody's face.

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

Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature.

Humility is not about having a low self-image or poor self-esteem. Humility is about self-awareness.

It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.

No sensible person ever made an apology.

I know of no case where a man added to his dignity by standing on it.

If you wish to be loved, be modest; if you wish to be admired, be proud; if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.

Oh thrice fools are we who like new-born princes weeping in the cradle know not that there is a kingdom before them then let our Lord's sweet hand square us and hammer us and strike off the knots of pride self-love and world-worship and infidelity that He may make us stones and pillars in His Father's house.

He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.

Who knows his virtues name or place, hath none.

I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.

He's a good man," Ranger said. "And you?" "I'm better.

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.

Confidence is essential, but ego is not.

Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble.

It just bothered me that you might think I'm somethin special. I aint.