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  • Attitude is an accurate monitor of where we fall on the spectrum of pride and humility.

    Erwin Raphael McManus (2006). “Uprising: A Revolution of the Soul”, p.62, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.

    Truth   Lying   Humility  
  • Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason.

    "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 485, 1895.
  • As I stood alone and forsaken, and the power of the sea and the battle of the elements reminded me of my own nothingness, and on the other hand, the sure flight of the birds recalled the words spoken by Christ: Not a sparrow shall fall on the ground without your Father: then, all at once, I felt how great and how small I was; then did those two mighty forces, pride and humility, happily unite in friendship.

    Father   Fall   Humility  
  • Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

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

    Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.110, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax
  • 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. . . .

    Sister   Brother   Humble  
  • Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

    Humility   Pride   Men  
    C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.164, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

    Christian   Plato   Lying  
  • The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

  • 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.

    Peace   Fall   Humility  
    Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: Human, all-too-human”
  • If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

    Love   God   Heart  
  • Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

    Life   Success   Humble  
    "Library of Universal History". Book by Israel Smith Clare, p. 539, 1899.
  • 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.

    God   Wisdom   Humility  
    C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility.

    Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.399
  • It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

    Humility   Angel   Pride  
    "Manipulus Florum". Book edited by Thomas Hibernicus,
  • Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

    Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria
  • On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

    Essais bk. 3, ch. 13 (1580)
  • The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.

    Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.91
  • Be not proud of race, face, place, or grace.

    Humility   Race   Proud  
  • 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.

    Pride   Men   Competition  
    C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.164, Simon and Schuster
  • Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

  • As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.

    C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • 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.

    henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.115
  • Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

    Jane Austen, John Halperin (1975). “Jane Austen: Bicentenary Essays”, p.129, CUP Archive
  • A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.

  • We can choose to humble ourselves by loving God, adjusting our will to His, and putting Him first in our lives.

    Life   Humble   Adjusting  
  • Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

    William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.147
  • Catch {a man} at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, "By jove, I'm being humble," and almost immediately pride - pride at his own humility - will appear.

    Humble   Humility   Pride  
    C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.153, Simon and Schuster
  • We can choose to humble ourselves by confessing and forsaking our sins and being born of God.

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