False Humility Quotes

“False humility is a form of psychosis which was imprinted on most of us since birth. It is a mental illness because it locks us in a victim state of keeping our light turned down, denying who we really are and silently begging for permission to simply show up as ourselves in the world. But there is good news. This is a jail whose lock is broken. We can walk free whenever we know the truth, and by so doing we show others an example of an end to madness. An example of freedom.”
― Jacob Nordby

“False humility is the pride of not being proud, real humility is without the consciousness that pride exists.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“I often use alcohol as an artificial check on my skills.”
― Bill Bryson, In a Sunburned Country

“False humility is better than no humility at all.”
― Paul Krassner

“I lived in Boston until last year,” he said, in a falsely low-key way, because “Boston” was code for Harvard (otherwise he would say MIT or Tufts or anywhere else), just as another woman said, “I was in New Haven,” in that coy manner that pretended not to be coy, which meant that she had been at Yale.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“Pride is not all of one kind.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“May any praise of your character come from others instead of yourself.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“King David in Psalm 37 writes "Take delight in the Giver, and He will give you the desires of your heart," intimating that the secret to finding our way in the world is more about cooperating with God than appeasing God.

That the Giver of life is also the Giver of our desires, which means that life has an invitational co-creative nature to it...

Why do we always believe that the path of our deepest desire would be so far from the path that God would have us walk? How is the path of desire so different from the path to the Giver of that desire?”
― Scott Erickson, Say Yes: Discover the Surprising Life Beyond the Death of a Dream

“Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy,
"than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Humility doesn’t need to be humbled—it is what it is—a grace without an adjective—it doesn’t need to be humbled—only arrogant pigs need to be humbled.”
― Giannina Braschi, PUTINOIKA