But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who…

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.

— Dag Hammarskjold

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

When you really have something to offer to the world, then you can become truly humble. A tree when it has no fruit to…

— Sri Chinmoy

Whatever hinders us from receiving a blessing that God is willing to bestow upon us is not humility, but the mockery of it. A…

— George Bowen

My father is one of the few men I've known who has genuine humility, and it lends him a natural dignity. He has absolutely…

— Harper Lee

Humility does not disturb or disquiet or agitate, however great it may be; it comes with peace, delight, and calm. . . . The…

— Teresa of Avila

“Self-interest, fear of physical pain, drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. Its insincerity was clearly to be seen. He ceases to be…

— Anthony Burgess

“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

“Foundations totter that are not laid deep enough. The more true light a man hath, the more cause of self-abasement will he find in…

— Thomas Manton

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

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