Pride and Humility Quotes

The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also.

I make bold to say that it is profitable for the proud to fall, in order that they may be humbled in that for which they have exalted themselves.

Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.

We know nothing of humility by nature, for we are all born proud.

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

But there was also a little of that thing they say about New Englanders: Being from here doesn't prevent me from doing anything, it just prevents me from enjoying it.

If I ever give another interview on the biblical sins of pride and lust, it will be to a reporter from Our Sunday Visitor

Alternate translation: Come brethren, if you have a mind to be ingrafted in the vine, It is a pity to see you lopped off in this manner From the stock. Reckon up the prelates in the very see of Peter; And in that order of fathers see which has succeeded which. This is the rock over which the proud gates of hell prevail not.

There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.

I actually studied literature and philosophy. So, when I started making films, I didn't really know what I was doing, and I was too proud and arrogant to learn.

A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.

We easily enough confess in others an advantage of courage, strength, experience, activity, and beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield to none.

If he exalts himself, I humble him. If he humbles himself, I exalt him. And I go on contradicting him Until he understands That he is a monster that passes all understanding.

My early colleagues and myself helped create the life styles of Americans and, by osmosis, of the rest of the world. I found it difficult to reconcile success with humility. I tried it first, but it meant avoiding the very essence of my career - total exhilaration and the ecstasy of creativity.