Should prosperity befall thee, rejoice not, and should…

People think they're in control, but they ain't. The truth is, that which must befall thee must befall thee. And that which must pass…

— Denver Moore

But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.

— Stephen Mitchell

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no substitute can…

— Ayn Rand

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons. Secure in…

— Dag Hammarskjold

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit…

— Aristotle

Pride is a terrible and dangerous thing. It can take so many forms; it can even assume the appearance of humility. Pride can lead…

— Paul Washer

Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs.

— Edward Young

... We in the USA have been depending on prayers, pleading, and self-abasement to a deity to bring us magical advantages, and have been…

— James Randi

I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to accomplish in…

— Clarice Lispector

There are times when I, without willing it, mount to the height of contemplation; with my will I am drawn down from it because…

— Symeon the New Theologian

There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and…

— Victor Hugo

The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille

— Karl Marx

There was no mistaking her sincerity--it breathed in every tone of her voice. Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring. But the…

— Anonymous

Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to be trampled…

— Mark the Evangelist