Antoine Rivarol Quotes

A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

Symbolically, what the rabbis say is that at Passover, what we have to do is try to get rid of our hot air - our pride, our feeling that we are the most important people in the whole entire world and that everything should revolve round us.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you're above everybody else.

Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.

Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.

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

Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble.

Small things make base men proud.

It's nice to see arrogance humbled.

Pride sings and dances; humility sighs.

When you start thinking you're a big shot, you wash more feet.

Pride leaves no room for grace.

We are never, never so much in danger of being proud as when we think we are humble.

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.

You can get a bit 'head in the clouds' - well, I do - and full of myself if I stick in front of the camera for too long. I forget there is hard work that needs to be done.

One may be humble out of pride.

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

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.

I've learned that if one is arrogant and if something bad happens to him, people won't want him to succeed. They will make more of an effort to bring him down.