Pride Vs Humility Quotes

Dignity and plenty instead of humility and poverty.

Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.

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

The Cross sanctifies the ego trip. For the Cross protected our Lord's perfect self-esteem from turning into sinful pride.

And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.

When you get second place, you say 'I could have won it here, I could have won it there.' When you win, you never say anything; it's finished.

When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.

Jesus had a humble heart. If He abides in us, pride will never dominate our lives.

Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars.

Pride is tough. You go to high school, and its 'pride,' 'courage;' it's all these types of words that we use to motivate us. I don't think there's anywhere in the Scriptures through the saints' lives where pride was ever a positive characteristic of anybody.

Doth any man live more to himself, or less to God, than the proud?

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow

Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride.

The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer.

It's pride, plain and simple, that keeps me from giving God all the glory and keeping some of it for myself. It is a battle we all fight in some form or another, some of us daily or even hourly.