Orson Scott Card Quotes

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

People become concerned with being more humble than other people.

Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

I don't like false modesty.

Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

The foundation of humility is truth. The humble man sees himself as he is. If his depreciation of himself were untrue,... it wouldnot be praiseworthy, and would be a form of hypocrisy, which is one of the evils of Pride. The man who is falsely humble, we know from our own experience, is one who is falsely proud.

We're all hypocrites. We all say one thing and do another. But why don't we try to do what we say more than what we don't?

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

I think we were always humble.

Honor is but an empty bubble.

I fear that many a man's good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

I'm not saying I'm the perfect role model. But I'm honest. Period.

I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

One may be humble out of pride.

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.

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

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.