Claudian Quotes

Humility saves man: pride makes him lose his way.

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

When you're righteous, you don't have to tell people that you're righteous.

Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance of humility.

Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion. I repeat: Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion.

It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.

Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.

Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.

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

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Humility is one of the most repulsive virtues, nearly always false.

The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.

For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.

There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.

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.

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

Pride creates a noise within us which makes the quiet voice of the Spirit hard to hear. And soon, in our vanity, we no longer even listen for it. We can come quickly to think we don't need it.

I look upon pride as a sin.

I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall.

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.

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'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.