Quotes on Pride And Humility

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.

you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.

Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

We can choose to humble ourselves by conquering enmity toward our brothers and sisters, esteeming them as ourselves, and lifting them as high or higher than we are. . . .

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 man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.