Owen D. Young Quotes

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

If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.

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.

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

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

I hope I don't have a big ego. I try to keep that in check. But I am a prideful person, I will say.

Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

There's a line that separates having confidence and being conceited. I don't cross that line, but I have a lot of confidence in myself.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

You need ego but mine is not blinding.

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

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.

I try not to be proud. I try to actively attack pride.

There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

I would warn my brethren and sisters to never flatter persons because of their ability; for they cannot bear it. Self is easily exalted, and in consequence, persons lose their balance.

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

You don’t have to humiliate yourself to show some humility.

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.

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