Are you proud or humble?

Question

Post the first thing that comes to your head. Then think about what you said.

Answer 1

I am proud and never demean my importance, or that of any other. I am proud, and understand that I should be.However, my pride does not coincide with my ego. I have little ego left. My pride is clean.

Answer 2

Proud. I am proud of the struggles and achievements I've made through life so far. After seeing how much I have turned my life around, it is difficult to not feel proud of myself. At the same time, I definitely acknowledge that I could not have done it alone -- God has always been by my side.

I'm very hesitant to say that I am humble because there's always the danger of feeling prideful about being so. Once the pride kicks in, you're no longer humble. Sometimes I think that a truly humble person does not know that he/she is humble at all.

Answer 3

Both. At times I am proud and at times I am humble. I am proud of the work I do, but I am humble knowing that true help is not transmitted from me, I am only a bridge or a tool.

Answer 4

I'm proud, was not brought up to be proud ....but am, for every bit of schooling I have done, every good deal in buying homes, all the love I have given in my job as a care-aide, all new Canadians that I have shared with, all the time I took with family and friends is all returning ....for all the times I was wrong and said I was sorry....for my guts ,for my love of learning ,for the the right thing I did in life

Answer 5

Humble. Pride quickly becomes arrogance. Pride is an over-stated sense of one's self. Pride overlooks the role that others play in our lives.

For example, someone may be proud of their looks. However, they did not create their looks. Their parents and their heritage played a role in how they look.

Someone may be proud of their body after going to the gym. However, genetics also plays a role in how a person's body will look and age over time.

Answer 6

In being humble means you carry no garbage to address who you are!

In being Proud it means you gotta carry a lot sh!t to make who you are!

Answer 7

I would have to say I am humble.When I was younger I was proud,but as I got older,35 my views have changed.

Answer 8

I am proud that I am humble.

Answer 9

"The virtue of Pride can best be described by the term: "moral ambitiousness." It means that one must earn the right to hold oneself as one's own highest value by achieving one's own moral perfection—which one achieves by never accepting any code of irrational virtues impossible to practice and by never failing to practice the virtues one knows to be rational—by never accepting an unearned guilt and never earning any, or, if one has earned it, never leaving it uncorrected—by never resigning oneself passively to any flaws in one's character—by never placing any concern, wish, fear or mood of the moment above the reality of one's own self-esteem. And, above all, it means one's rejection of the role of a sacrificial animal, the rejection of any doctrine that preaches self-immolation as a moral virtue or duty."
[The Objectivist Ethics - Ayn Rand]

"Self-abasement is the antithesis of morality. If a man has acted immorally, but regrets it and wants to atone for it, it is not self-abasement that prompts him, but some remnant of love for moral values—and it is not self-abasement that he expresses, but a longing to regain his self-esteem. Humility is not a recognition of one's failings, but a rejection of morality. "I am no good" is a statement that may be uttered only in the past tense. To say: "I am no good" is to declare: "- and I never intend to be any better."
[Moral Inflation - Ayn Rand]

Answer 10

I am grateful to have fairly good instincts when it comes to recognizing either trait.