A Quote by Viola Davis

Self-deprecation is not the answer to humility.

Viola Davis

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Viola Davis
American - Actress
Born: August 11, 1965

Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one's balance. I think that it's very damaging.

Viola Davis

If you ask, what is the first step in the way of truth? I answer humility," saith St. Austin. "If you ask, what is the second? I say humility. If you ask, what is the third? I answer the same - humility.

Antony C. Sutton

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 its reality, the self is neither better nor worse, bigger nor smaller, than anything else in the universe. It is ? is nothing, yet at the same time one with everything. It is in this sense that humility is absolute self-effacement.

Dag Hammarskjold

Self-deprecation is my game.

Steve Lukather

Humility is not about having a low self-image or poor self-esteem. Humility is about self-awareness.

Erwin McManus

Comedy is basically self-deprecation.

Hannibal Buress

It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is the beginning of blessedness and the consummation of humility is the perfection of all joy. Humility contains in itself the answer to all the great problems of the life of the soul. It is the only key to faith, with which the spiritual life begins: for faith and humility are inseparable. In perfect humility all selfishness disappears and your soul no longer lives for itself or in itself for God: and it is lost and submerged in Him and transformed into Him.

Thomas Merton

Adolescents swing from euphoric self-confidence and a kind of narcissistic strength in which they feel invulnerable and even immortal, to despair, self-emptiness, self-deprecation. At the same time they seem to see an emerging self that is unique and wonderful, they suffer an intense envy which tears narcissism into shreds, and makes other people's qualities hit them like an attack of lasers.

Terri E Apter

I think self-deprecation is such a disease, and I want to cure everybody of it and so that's my contribution.

Margaret Cho

The pulpit is no place for self-promotion. It is a great place for self-deprecation.

Max Lucado

In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.