Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and…

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

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

Should prosperity befall thee, rejoice not, and should abasement come upon thee, grieve not, for both shall pass away and be no more.

— Bahá'u'lláh

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

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

— Stephen Mitchell