False humility Quote by George R.R. Martin Download Open image ““the false humility of youth that is itself a sort of pride. It”” — George R.R. Martin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare False humility Humility Pride Youth
“In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself. You see it perhaps often in this History. For even if… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“Pride is the oldest and commonest of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.” — J.C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“When we become proud, we operate outside the grace God only gives to the humble. Humility preserves us; pride destroys us.” — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“Pride is not the opposite of shame, but it's source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.” — General Iroh Copy Share Image
“Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may be arrogant.” — John Piper Copy Share Image
“There is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Neither's the one you get, less you want me to see if your apple's ripe, yet. - Yoren” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“It is my look they will flinch from now, my frown that they must fear.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Everything Syrio Forel had ever taught her vanished in a heartbeat. In that instant of sudden terror, the only lesson Arya could remember was… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Megga couldn’t sing, but she was mad to be kissed. She and Alla played a kissing game sometimes, she confessed, but it wasn’t the… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The rain feels good against my face, Sam. It feels like tears. Let me stay a while longer, I pray you. It has been… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Every man who walks the earth casts a shadow on the world. Some are thin and weak, others long and dark.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The shy girl she had known at Riverrun had grown into a woman who was by turns proud, fearful, cruel, dreamy, reckless, timid, stubborn,… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“He won the war on the battlefield and lost it in a bedchamber, poor fool.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“On the morning after battle the crows had feasted on victors and vanquished alike. How much can a crown be worth when a crow… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Faith taints or at worst removes our curiosity about the world, what we should value, and what type of life we should lead. Faith… — Peter Boghossian Copy Share Image
It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“My dear, here is lesson number one for using opportunity; waste no time on false humility. Tell the world about your achievements don't wait… — Kate Alcott Copy Share Image
I'm blessed by God. Cutting edge? I am. I'm leading a movement, leading a broadcast revolution on AM radio. I'm very confident about myself,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
One who has an inferiority complex can never be really humble, but can only have false modesty or false humility. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
An authentically empowered person is humble. This does not mean the false humility of one who stoops to be with those who are below… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
“High and holy ambition--to be a saint--is not opposed to holy humility--total reliance on God's grace. Exactly the opposite. Ambition without humility is ambition… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Doubt is my boon companion, the faithful St. Bernard ever at my side. Whether writing essays or just going about daily life, I am… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
“False humility is a form of psychosis which was imprinted on most of us since birth. It is a mental illness because it locks… — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
